HBO Max’s Tokyo Vice focuses on American reporter Jack Adelstein’s (Ansel Elgort) time in Tokyo reporting on crime in the 1990s. Adelstein is employed by the largest newspapers in Japan and is making a mess of it. As the only gaijin (foreigner) at the paper, he is desperate to prove himself to the newspaper and […]
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The first season of Undone was probably my favourite TV show of 2019. It was a trippy, sci-fi drama dealing with grief, trauma and mental illness, all beautifully told using wonderfully effective rotoscope animation. That style of animation provided a huge sense of realism while allowing for the more trippy aspects of the story to
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The Northman follows Amleth (Alexander Skarsgard) on his bloody quest for revenge against his uncle, Fjolnir (Claes Bang). As a child, Amleth witnessed the murder of his father, King Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke), by Fjoinir’s hand, narrowly escaping being murdered himself and vowing to avenge his father and save his mother, Queen Gudrun (Nicole Kidman). The
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Operation Mincemeat tells the strange but true story of an elaborate scheme that was formulated by British intelligence during the second world war in a bid to fool the Nazis into believing that they were invading Greece, and not their intended target of Sicily. It stars Colin Firth along with a host of well known
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Boiling Point is a one-shot culinary drama centring around the evening service in a busy restaurant in the run-up to Christmas. Now available and starring the ever-brilliant Stephen Graham, it brings a not often seen side of restaurants to the forefront and while this is definitely interesting with some great performances, it ultimately ended up
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In cinemas from April 1st and on digital from April 4th, Homebound is the feature film debut of writer/director Sebastian Godwin, a horror film that attempts to put an unsettling new spin on the familiar stepmother trope we’ve seen so many times before. Recently married couple Richard (Tom Goodman-Hill) and Holly (Aisling Loftus) are travelling
The Outfit tells the story of one night in a 1950s Chicago tailor shop owned by an expert tailor, Leonard (Mark Rylance). Leonard’s shop holds a mysterious dropbox filled throughout the day with envelopes and two young mobsters, Richie (Dylan O’Brien) and Francis (Johnny Flynn), collect the contents in the evenings. Envelopes appear with a
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Pam & Tommy is the 8-episode mini-series telling the true story behind the release of the infamous sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee in the 90s, now streaming in the UK on Disney+. While the story itself is genuinely interesting, after watching the full 8-episode run I’m not convinced that we really need
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It’s 1999. James (Harry Shum Jr.) is a video archivist, working the late-night shift in a Chicago basement where he is currently logging old TV shows. He lives alone, following the disappearance of his wife Hannah three years ago, and regularly attends a support group for people whose loved ones are missing. While at work
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Coming to Netflix on March 18th, Black Crab is a Swedish action thriller set in a post-apocalyptic world torn apart by war. Directed by Adam Berg and starring Noomi Rapace, it’s a great looking film with war elements that really manage to strike a chord, with everything that’s currently going on in the world. Caroline
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The Batman is the latest incarnation of the Dark Knight, this time taken on by Cloverfield director Matt Reeves. Coming only a few years after Ben Affleck’s appearance as the caped crusader, The Batman sees Robert Pattinson take on a much darker, gothic version of the hero, to surprising success. The film opens in Gotham
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The Power of the Dog is the Oscar-nominated western from Jane Campion, based on the book by Thomas Savage. With a total of 12 Oscar nominations, including Best Actor and Best Motion Picture, expectations for this were incredibly high. And while there are a lot of aspects that are very good, the overall story seems
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Drive My Car expands upon Haruki Murakami’s short story, Men Without Women. The film follows the stage actor and director, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) following the sudden death of his wife, Oto (Reika Kirishima) and the film’s opening covers the last few months of their relationship. During this time, Kafuku rehearses for a stage production
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This Is Going to Hurt is the tv adaptation of the best-selling memoir by Adam Kay, chronicling the daily struggles of a junior doctor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Now a 7-part BBC series starring Ben Whishaw, the show blends humour and heartfelt drama with an interesting commentary on the NHS, with rather mixed success. Ben
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Death on the Nile is the second Hercule Poirot story to be given the Kenneth Branagh treatment, following on from 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express. With a star-studded cast, an opulent setting and Branagh in place as both the titular detective and director, you’d expect big things. However what unfolds feels rather dull, empty
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Netflix’s Inventing Anna attempts to tell the story of the Soho Grifter, Anna Delvey. Anna Delvey, AKA Sorokin (Julia Garner), portrayed herself as a wealthy German Heiress and wormed her way into New York high society, stealing along the way. The series is mainly from the perspective of a disgraced journalist, Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky),
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