• Rogue One

    Wars-Story: How ‘Rogue One’ gave a last chance to new hope…

    Jynn Erso (Felicity Jones) is the daughter of  an architect named Galen (Mads Mikkelsen) who was the senior designer on the galactic Empire’s war-efforts. Realising his designs would lead to wholesale slaughter rather than peace, he quit his job and escaped into obscurity with his family. But the Empire has...
  • Doctor Strange

    ‘Doctor Strange’: Marvel’s new smooth operator…

    Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is that kind of doctor for whom the profession has brought riches, fame and more than a slight amount of arrogance.  Perhaps they are all well-deserved, but one night it is all snatched away when a terrible traffic accident on a mountain road badly injures...
  • NatGeo's MARS

    Red all over? Mars attracts Nat Geo doc-drama…

    The National Geographic Channel‘s MARS is an interesting beast – a mixture of actual documentary, pseudo-documentary and straight drama, deliberately blending them together to give audiences what the programmers hope feels like a fact-based show that could have been / will be  made forty years from now.  One might think...
  • Class

    Dark Meta: Doctor Who’s ‘Class’ is a self-aware spin-off…

    Coal Hill Academy, a shiny steel and glass structure built on the site of the previous bricks and mortar school has always been a magnet for… something other.As far back as sixty years ago it was attracting unearthly children and it seems even a wash and brush up hasn’t...
  • Train to Busan

    Blood on the tracks: ‘Train to Busan’ is a first-class journey into horror…

    Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) is a business-man, divorced and with such a focus on his work that he gets his daughter Soo-an (Kim Su-an) the same present two years running. This year, her only wish is for her father to take her to see her mother in Busan and so, balancing...
  • Reborn

    Millar and Capullo’s Reborn: A River(world) runs through it…

    Bonnie Black is dying. At 80 years old, she’s lived a full life, full of the myriad triumphs and disappointments, happiness and sadness that go to make up an existence – but her body is entering its twilight and if she’s not ready to shuffle off her mortal coil,...
  • Frequency

    Ghosts in the Machine: Why you should tune in to ‘Frequency’…

    Raimy Sullivan (Peyton List)  is a decorated detective, celebrating her twenty-eighth birthday and likely to be proposed to by her boyfriend. She loves her job, her fiancee and her mother dearly – the only thing that still haunts some of her moments is the knowledge that her late father...
  • 'Conviction' lacks the courage of such in ABC's new drama...

    Trials and Tribulations: Atwell’s legal drama lacks ‘Conviction’…

    Hayes Morrison (Haley Atwell) may be the daughter of an ex-President and possess the savvy mind of a great attorney but she’s also a self-destructive rebel and a magnate for self-inflicted trouble . But when she’s caught for cocaine-possession, she’s offered the deal of a lifetime. Due to a...
  • Westworld

    Original Synth: ‘Westworld’ explores the first and final frontiers…

    The near future. Leaps in technology and the lifelong work of Doctor Robert Ford (Sir Anthony Hopkins) have allowed advancements in cyber-technology. So much so that the very richest and most influential people can buy time at an isolated park where they can live out a range of storylines...
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