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Lately, I’ve found myself complaining that new TV shows aren’t offering original storytelling – case in point, my recent review of the very derivative Nocturne. Well, I’m happy to report that Phony, the new mystery comedy from Hulu, actually has a pretty original story to tell. Okay, it’s not wholly original, but it manages to take […]
Artificial Intelligence: it’s a phrase we cannot escape. It’s a technology that has ‘revolutionised’ the global economy since it entered the mainstream. Despite the economic growth figures and booming stock market, the general public is hostile to AI because of the potential jobs crisis, environmental impact, and the rapid growth of data centres, which can […]
The Girl With All the Gifts is a zombie movie that is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and it is an unsung gem that deserves attention. In a bunker under a British Army base, a group of children are held captive and go through an unorthodox educational process. Whenever they leave their cells, they are strapped […]
Wildwood is Laika’s sixth feature film, and their first since 2019’s Missing Link. The illustrious studio delivers a dark epic fantasy. Prue McKeel (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) is a young girl living in Portland, Oregon. She ignores her parents’ warnings not to take her brother Mac outside, leading to the baby being taken by a murder of […]
We’ve reached the final climb to the climax of VisionQuest – the Client (whose identity I think the show tipped with their dialogue this week – more on that in a minute) has decided not to kill Vision, should he come to them, Jocasta and Ultron have created their own unholy union* and unleashed the first […]
While watching the screeners for Nocturne, the upcoming psychological thriller series from AppleTV, I kept waiting to see when it would present the twist that would set it apart from every other story about a serial killer playing a cat and mouse game with a grizzled investigator. Unfortunately, that twist never materialized, and the series […]
Avatar: Seven Havens has reached its third block of episodes, and it’s the best so far by expanding the plot as Ellora’s tensions come to a head. Pavi and Nisha’s objectives start to diverge. Nisha wants to knuckle down with training and prove she is a worthy Avatar, whilst Pavi wants to continue the search […]
There’s nothing all that suspenseful about the action within Elsinore. That’s the way of things when you’re watching a biopic that turns on a singular event: actor Ian Charleson (Andrew Scott) is determined to portray Hamlet on the stage of the National Theatre before he dies of AIDS. It really happened, it was – by all […]
Taika Waititi takes on the job of adapting Kazuo Ishiguro’s dark sci-fi novel Klara and the Sun and turns it into a whimsical fable. In the future, androids have been developed and sold as artificial friends for wealthy teenagers. One of these artificial friends is Klara (Jenna Ortega), an old B1 model. Klara gets her […]
The Liberation is a frustrating film. It had a series of truly spectacular performances to anchor the complex themes of the story – a story that is based on writer-director Guy Nattiv’s own grandmother’s life story. But it also has an incredibly unsatisfying ending – not unsatisfying in what happens in the film’s final fifteen […]