• Take ‘Note’: Netflix’s deadly reboot has culture-clash….

    Light Turner hasn’t had it easy… he’s a bright kid – so much so he ends up doing others’ homework for a fee – but never seems to be able to find his own place in the day to day world. Essentially a loner, he resents that his mother’s...
  • Murder they Wrote… (The books making a killing…)

    Behind Her Eyes has been getting considerable plaudits over the summer with Sarah Pinborough’s current tome and previous works featuring on many a must-read list. It’s a book that creeps up on you, tapping you on the shoulder and whispering ‘There’s something weird here that you can’t put your...
  • Unchartered - Lost Legacy

    ‘Lost Legacy’ charts familiar but exciting territory…

    Nathan Drake may have semi-retired after Unchartered 4: A Thief’s End, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t relics to be found, lost cities to be uncovered, history to be mined and adversaries to outwit… and so the torch/goblet/whip is passed to Chloe Frazer, a woman who has the same...
  • Defenders

    Defend & Chill: Netflix cooks up cool Hell’s Kitchen heat…

    Danny Rand (Finn Jones) and Colleen Wing’s (Jessica Henwick) efforts to track down members of ‘The Hand’ in the Far East prove unsuccessful when their quarry is killed by an assassin. His dying breath warns them that the occult group has some serious plans for New York. Back in...
  • The Sinner

    As the Biel turns: ‘The Sinner’ asks ‘whydunnit?’…

    “It’s the sign of an eco-system out of balance…’ muses detective Harry Ambrose as he notes dying trees on the far side of a woodland beach that has become an horrific crime-scene. It’s a statement rich with subtext for the eight-part mini-series to come. Cora Tannetti (Jessica Biel) might seem...
  • Free Fire

    Unscrupulous Suspects: ‘Free Fire’ feels the burn…

    1980s’ Boston… and a group of ne’er-do-wells meet in a dockside warehouse to conclude a deal for arms. Some want money. Some want guns. Some just want their cut. Nobody trusts anyone else, but everyone wants the deal to go down as smoothly as possible and then to get...
  • Atomic Blonde review

    Atomic Blonde: Theron-tailored, soldier, spy.

    A badly-bruised and beaten agent, Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is getting debriefed in 1989 London. She’s has returned from a visit to Berlin, just as the divided city finally tore down the wall that separated East and West. But she wasn’t sight-seeing and her mission seems to have spiralled...
  • Ape-ocalypse Now: ‘War’ profits for Hollywood…

    Caesar (Andy Serkis) wants nothing more than to live in peace, away from the humans that seem determined to make he and his fellow apes their enemy. But Caesar is more than willing to answer any attack with brute and savage force. He’s not without mercy but his patience...
  • Okja

    Okja – Livestock and two smoking barrels…

    Ten years ago, the Mirando Corporation – keen to escape years of bad press because of its founding father’s ruthless nature- started a program that created a genetically-superior super pig, one which had a small carbon footprint and a delicious non-waste yield. The brainchild of new CEO Lucy Mirando...
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