It’s 1942. Brad Pitt parachutes into the Moroccan desert where he is met by a car. He gets in and the car drives off. On the back seat is a suitcase containing a change of clothes, new passport and documents… and some guns! He’s dropped off in Casablanca, all suited and booted and is given […]
It’s 1987, and we’re in San Junipero – a party town on a Saturday night. A convertible pulls up to a fast food joint with Belinda Carlisle’s ‘Heaven is a place on earth’ playing on the stereo.
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If you’ve ever been the subject of some kind of identity or credit card data theft, you’ll know the scary sickening feeling that accompanies the discovery and the hassle of trying to put everything right.
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The past few months have seen wave after wave of five star reviews for Arrival following its various festival screenings. All of them offering such high praise as ‘a sci-fi masterpiece’, ‘an instant classic’, ‘must-see’, ‘beautiful, ‘the thinking persons sci-fi’. The simple trailer does a wonderful job of layering up the mystery and tension, without
A sharp tonal shift from the continuous onslaught of terror and gut wrenching heartbreak in last weeks episode. This week, Carol and Morgan find themselves at The Kingdom, another idyllic community full of smiling happy inhabitants, vegetable growing and even a choir! Presiding over it all is King Ezekiel, accompanied by his tiger Shiva. Carol
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Another brilliant episode of Black Mirror – an augmented reality horror story, just in time for Halloween! Cooper is a young American man, backpacking his way around the world and trying to escape family life, in particular the recent death of his father. He’s in London on the last leg of his trip, hooking up
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OK, so with the list of TV shows I still need to finish watching growing every day, I was trying to put off watching the new season of Black Mirror. But, with such huge online buzz and positivity surrounding the show… I caved! The good thing about Black Mirror is that each episode is self
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Tim Burton casts his magic over the novel by Ransom Riggs
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Can season 2 live up to the high standard introduced in season 1?
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A fresh twist on the zombie genre
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Every once in a while I think it’s only fair that I go with my wife to see a movie which is more in line with her taste than mine. She dutifully came along to see Captain America: Civil War with me recently, despite not being the big superhero fan that I am. So, now
This is a truly wonderful movie. Theodore is a lonely writer, separated from his wife. He installs an OS with artificial intelligence called Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson) and she begins learning about his life and communicating with him regularly. This seems to be a world, similar to our own but with some very different
If you’ve ever wondered how many phone calls a man can make in one single car journey, then Locke is the film for you. In what is a pretty bold piece of film making, Locke is entirely set in the confines of a car as it drives along the motorway at night. Tom Hardy is
