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The end was not only nigh, but feature-length as a two-hour plus episode of Stranger Things attempted to tie-off or trim every major thread from its five season run. Did it do so successfully? Well, mostly. Was it perfect… no, but it was a success on a genre-packed, guilty-pleasure...
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Three more episodes of Stranger Things‘ final season/volume dropped on Christmas Day ahead of the feature-length 31st December finale. It may feel like the spacing of this final run is a little off, but given that most of us can barely remember what day of the week it is...
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In an alternate history, with America emerging from a modern civil war, a special event allows one lucky citizen to win anything they want. A lottery selects fifty people, supposedly at random, to take part in a ‘walk’ from which there can be only one winner. The catch? All...
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A trawler at sea accidentally catches and kills a life-form that is definitely not the typical fish they were expecting. Ever-vigilant, the Unified Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT) realises the implications and attempts to find answers. UNIT’s work with The Doctor has made them well-aware of the creatures that share this...
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Surviving (just) a chaotic time at university, Sarah Trafford has gone on to become an art restorer and is largely content muddling through life. She has an apparently nice partner, a nice house… but all of that is about to come tumbling down when a dinner-party with her husband’s...
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The Allies have won World War II, but can they win the peace by holding the people behind the global atrocities to account? To do so involves creating an entirely new framework to cover the scale of evil deeds and the need to be transparent in front of a...
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While there is little doubt that we’re living in a golden era of television – with something for everyone to love or complain about – and more to watch in more varying ways, one of the downsides of the ever-ambitious productions is still the time it takes between seasons....
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The Age of Disclosure, directed by Dan Farah, producer of Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One and the fantasy series The Shannara Chronicles, is one of those documentaries that will likely be judged in hindsight – aging as either a fine wine or cheese depending on whether it’s a forerunner...
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It’s 1962 and in the unbecoming town of Derry, Maine, the ‘business as usual’ maxim remains at odds with a strange, unsettling undercurrent that appears to have plagued the area for longer than many inhabitants can – or care to – remember. Young Matty Clements becomes the latest child...