Following an uneven third season (albeit one that saw the series get some long-overdue Emmy recognition), Slow Horses is back for a fourth season. And I’m happy to report that this one is much less bloody and violent and, on the whole, a much stronger story (even if some of the central mystery feels a […]
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Mr. Corman Review
After watching the first three episode of Mr. Corman, the new AppleTV+ series created by and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, I was ready to write up a complete pan of the series. I hated it and couldn’t find anything remotely redeemable in the show. But, having watched the seven additional episodes of the first season, I […]
Mortal Engines Review
Mortal Engines saw the return of Peter Jackson to blockbuster filmmaking with one of the most insane entries in the post-apocalyptic genre. In the future Earth has been devastated by the Sixty Minutes War. Because of this, towns and cities have become motorised with the biggest settlements preying on the smaller ones. London is one […]
Britflix: V for Vendetta
Dystopian stories are a subgenre fiction that the British have mastered, including Alan Moore’s famous graphic novel V for Vendetta. It was famously adapted by the Wachowskis in 2005 and the film immediately became a cult classic. In the near future, Britain has become a fascist state. The government constantly blasts religious propaganda, Islam is […]