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Danny Boyle directing. Aaron Sorkin writing. Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet in the main roles. It shocks me that this film had such cool reception in America, so much so that it put Boyle and the studio at loggerheads over ...

Whatever you might say about Suzanne Collins’ terribly average prose, the story and badass heroine she created makes for a cracking good tale. The first film of the series was good, Catching Fire was brilliant, then Hollywood continued its milking ...

Comforting Sunday afternoon viewing with a whiff of intellectualism, The Lady in the Van is a satisfying little film with a quasi-biographical bent about Alan Bennett (Alex Jennings) and his bizarre squatter-come-neighbour. The… forceful Miss Shepherd (Maggie Smith) rolls onto ...

When a series is picked up for a second season before the first episode is aired, the show better be bloody brilliant. Lucky for Starz, Ash vs Evil Dead is – with emphasis on ‘bloody’. Having never seen the original ...

From the blurb, Made to Kill sounded like it was 100% made for me. A science fiction noir with robots? Sign me up! My love affair of the noir genre began in childhood after discovering Humphrey Bogart in The Big ...

The Gods are dying. Fifteen thousand years after the end of their war, their bodies can still be found across the world. They kneel in forests, lie beneath mountains, and rest at the bottom of the world’s ocean. For thousands ...

If you are already a fan of Arrow or The Flash, likelihood is you will have already started tuning in to watch CBS’s latest DC series, Supergirl. Thankfully, Supergirl embraces the silly rather than brooding in dark corners; the series ...

Creating story to a set structure is nothing to sniff at. After all, it’s worked for Bernard Cornwell all these years. But after the fresh of breath air that was Skyfall, the familiar ground covered in Spectre tastes stale. There ...

Welcome to Night Vale surprised almost everyone when it topped the podcast chart in the US. Since then, it has developed a loyal, cult following. And there’s no surprise in that. The podcast is creepy, sometimes terrifying, weird, surreal, and ...

Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) is a bookish American belle, the daughter of a self-made steel magnate in Buffalo, New York. Her doting friend Dr Alan McMichael (Charlie Hunnam) has returned from travels in Europe but at the same time the ...