Baby Reindeer is the latest British drama series to hit our screens on Netflix. The dark and disturbing series has become an overnight success with critics and viewers, and while I’m normally loathe to believe the hype, with this it’s definitely justified. The series is based on the true life story of comedian Richard Gadd, […]
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Astrophysicist Ye Wenjie (Zine Tseng/Rosalind Chao) sends a message into space from a remote base during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Years later, there’s a response: reply, and they’ll come and destroy Earth. After all of the destruction Ye Wenjie has witnessed, she invites them to come because Earth cannot save itself. In the present
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Coming to Disney+ on Friday 29th March, Renegade Nell is a new fantasy adventure series from writer and executive producer Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley, Gentleman Jack). It’s got highwaymen, dark magic and a little bit of superpower action thrown in for good measure. And it’s a lot of fun too. As is usually the way
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Dune Part 2 is Denis Villeneuve’s second film in what looks to be an ongoing saga based on the Frank Herbert novels. After the spectacular first part, this follows in the same epic footsteps. However, it stumbles when straying from some of the original source material. The film picks up where the first left off,
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Suncoast recently landed on Disney+, a coming-of-age drama set in Florida. But despite being advertised as a fun, heartwarming drama, the end result is a lot more hard-hitting and sadly it isn’t the better for it. The film follows teenager Doris (Nico Parker), who is stuck caring for her terminally ill brother Max and without
Peacock’s second season of Dr. Death features the medical misdeeds of the Swiss-Italian doctor Paolo Macchiarini (Edgar Ramirez). Macchiarini, an internationally famous surgeon at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, has created a miracle: a stem-cell-soaked, 3D-printed trachea that can be implanted and magically become one with the patient. Benita Alexander (Mandy Moore), a journalist at
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Sports biopic The Iron Claw is based on the Von Erich wrestling family from Texas. Patriarch Fritz Von Erich (Holt McCallany) failed to obtain the mantle of World Heavyweight Champion during his wrestling career, and now it falls to one of his many sons to obtain it. In 1979, Kevin (Zac Efron) becomes the Texas
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Silo is a dystopian sci-fi series streaming now on Apple TV+. Based on the Silo book series of the same name by Hugh Howey, this is a gripping and engaging adaptation that has breathed new life into the dystopian future genre. The series follows 10,000 people living in a 144-level underground bunker known as the
In the last days of World War II, kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) lands on Odo Island, seeking repairs for his plane. After a full inspection, Tachibana (Munetaka Aoki), the head mechanic, figures out Shikishima landed on Odo Island to avoid fulfilling his duties as a kamikaze pilot. That same evening, Godzilla goes on
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Saltburn is the second film from writer and director Emerald Fennell, a follow-up to her lauded debut Promising Young Woman. This time Fennell focuses on social class and the rich elite, with the end result landing somewhere between brilliant and frustrating. The film follows Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), a working-class boy from Merseyside who has
Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins is a fictional retelling of the American Samoa football team’s quest to score at least one goal in the World Cup qualifiers. Years after a humiliating defeat to Australia 31 – 0, Tavita (Oscar Knight), the President of the Football Federation of American Samoa, posts an ad for the head
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Bodies is a new limited series now available to stream on Netflix. Based on a graphic novel of the same name, the mind-bending, time-travel thriller brings a refreshingly new and interesting take to the detective crime genre. The 8-episode series opens in London in 2023 with DS Shahara Hasan (Amaka Okafor), as she heads to
The Fall of the House of Usher, Mike Flanagan’s most recent Netflix project, is based on a collection of works by Edgar Allan Poe. The Usher family, headed up by twins Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood) and Madeline Usher (Mary McDonnell), own a large pharmaceutical company called Fortunato that makes a boatload of money from a
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A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh’s third instalment in his Hercule Poirot series, this time replacing the glamour and grandeur of the earlier two films with a darker, more gothic feel that makes this the best instalment so far. The film follows Branagh’s Detective Poirot, who has now retired and is living a solitary
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Dumb Money, based on the book, “The Antisocial Network” dramatizes the GameStop saga of 2020/2021, where r/WallStreetBets users, a group of retail investors, or “dumb money”, drive the price of the stock up to an excessive amount, causing a Wall Street meltdown. The film follows three distinct points of view – Keith Gill (Paul Dano),
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Milton (Ben Kingsley) lives a monotonous, quiet life in a small town in rural Pennsylvania. He goes about his typical routine, watching the same television shows every evening, taking care of his garden, attending council meetings, and repeatedly calling his daughter, Denise (Zoe Winters). One evening, a UFO crashes into his garden, and no one
