Logan's Award-winning screenwriter Scott Frank continue's his strong TV run after Queen's Gambit with this 80-years-in-the-making return to Dashiell Hammett's immortal Maltese Falcon PI, Sam Spade, brought to life by a perfectly cast Clive Owen.
Game of Thrones' David Benioff and D. B. Weiss reward Netflix's $200 million 2019 exclusivity gamble with a long overdue - and second out of the gate - adaptation of the acclaimed Chinese sci-fi novel... and it's a heady slice of likely divisive hard sci-fi.
Twisted Metal (Paramount +) Premiere TV Show Review
by Mark Costello
The PlayStation videogame franchise series NO-ONE wanted comes to UK shores nine months after a tepid US bow, but it’s probably slightly more fun than you expected it to be…
With an all-in fan-service-only self-assuredness, ’97 takes a decision to appeal whole-heartedly to the Millennial nostalgia which holds the original show in such high regard, recreating the feel of a thirty-year-old show as closely as possible... but is this enough?
Halo 2 the game was known for its truncated and confusing narrative, the controversial introduction of an alien playable character and more of the same of its legendary gameplay. What does Halo 2 the series have to offer? Well, after less than hour we already know it’s got a truncated episode count and features more of the same as season one…for better and for worse…UPDATED for full Season review.
Somewhat insanely, Guy Ritchie's created/written/directed TV spin-off to his 2019 movie of the same name is great fun, chock full of colourful characters, bursting with witty dialogue, and utterly bingeworthy.
Disney+’s lavish and brutal new adaptation of the James Clavell novel hits our screens with its beautiful sense of blood-soaked intrigue and fog-shrouded mystery apparent from the very first frames…
Launching as a Gravity-esque space survival flick, this new Apple TV+ Noomi Rapace sci-fi vehicle soon flashes its mystery box teeth with heady notions of quantum physics and a lot more going on under the hood than you might expect.
Ditching the more whimsical McG-style excesses of the 2005 Brangelina action comedy, this Amazon reboot - created by and starring Atlanta's Donald Glover - immediately feels like it's trying to do something different with a familiar concept. UPDATED for full season review.
Furiously late to the party, we tune in to discover that Culprits is a slick, brutal, and unbearably tense heist thriller that's a surprise choice for one of the best shows of the tail end of 2023.
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Movies & TV Shows
Ginny & Georgia Season 1 (Netflix) TV Show Review
by Cas Harlow
Digging into what makes Netflix viewers click, we roll out on the Top 10 most viewed productions with one of their all-time most popular shows to see what the fuss is about.
Messrs Spielberg and Hanks return to the epic WWII mini-series twenty-three years after Band of Brothers ushered in a new era of event TV, only this time they take to the skies, following the 100th Bomb Group as they take the fight to Germany…
Reacher's back! The poster of his back exclaims, in perfect tone with the character, and boy is he, with a fabulous kick-start to Amazon's TV show adaptation of the 11th book, Bad Luck and Trouble. UPDATED FOR FULL SEASON REVIEW.
Noah "Legion" Hawley's FX anthology series, Fargo, returns for its fifth 'instalment', introducing us to another disparate set of colourful characters and a more thoroughly classic Fargo scenario to sink your teeth into - UPDATED FOR FULL SEASON REVIEW.
True Detective: Night Country (Sky) Premiere TV Show Review
by Tom Davies
True Detective comes to HBO and Sky with a new season and something that many have been asking for since 2014: a return to the quasi-supernatural madness encountered by Rust Cohle and Marty Hart back in Season 1. And it’s a very encouraging start.
For All Mankind Season 4 (Apple TV+) TV Show Review
by Cas Harlow
Apple's finest flagship show lands with another deep impact opener, affording a glimpse at what will undoubtedly be another memorable season of this tremendous alternate sci-fi series - UPDATED FOR FULL SEASON REVIEW.
Marvel's new standalone "Spotlight" brand kick-starts with a show that absolutely requires you to have boatloads of previous knowledge, enjoying a decent anti-hero action lead and elevated no end by Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin - UPDATED FOR FULL SEASON.