Rachel Bellwoar reviews the seventh episode of Marvel’s The Gifted… You can leave the Mutant Underground, but you can’t leave the fake memory they planted in your head behind. So Blink explains, when John tracks her down this week. Claiming the Mutant Underground needs her, and leaving out the disenchanted looks he’s been sending his girlfriend […]
Movie Review – Cannibals and Carpet Fitters (2017)
Cannibals and Carpet Fitters, 2017. Directed by James Bushe. Starring Darren Sean Enright, Richard Lee O’Donnell, Zara Phythian, Christopher Whitlow, Alex Zane and Jenny Stokes. SYNOPSIS: An unfortunate combination of customer dissatisfaction, managerial impotency and employee laziness has resulted in Cupid Carpets falling on hard times. As a result, Nigel (the firm’s desperate, but ultimately […]
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 9 Review – ‘Into the Forest I Go’
Alex Moreland reviews the midseason finale of Star Trek: Discovery… You’ve opened a whole new chapter for Discovery. I think it’s fair to say that this was the best episode of Star Trek: Discovery so far. Certainly, it was a better episode to end the series on than last week’s would have been – indeed, […]
Arrow Season 6 Episode 5 Review – ‘Deathstroke Returns’
Jessie Robertson reviews the fifth episode of Arrow season 6… Tonight’s Arrow was a pretty paint by numbers episode with really only two storylines functioning during it. The return of Deathstroke was one; He recruited Oliver to be used as a diplomat to help pull his son from a prison in Kasnia. Oliver wrestles with […]
Gotham Season 4 Episode 8 Review – ‘Stop Hitting Yourself’
Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Gotham season 4… Cory Michael Smith turns a back street dive bar into something akin to Cabaret this week. Those too young to remember need only watch his moments in the wrestling ring, where vaudeville crosses over from side-show villainy into pure kitsch to know we have something […]
Riverdale Season 2 Episode 5 Review – ‘A Stranger Calls’
Liam Hoofe reviews the fifth episode of Riverdale season 2… One of Riverdale’s many strengths have always been that it rarely wastes a scene, and when you look at how far the narrative of season 2 has come in just five episodes, then you can see that the show’s second season is not about to […]
Red Dwarf XII Episode 5 Review – ‘M-Corp’
Villordsutch reviews Red Dwarf XII – M-Corp… They say “time flies when you’re having fun” and here we are – rather shockingly – at the penultimate episode of Red Dwarf XII. This weeks episode “M-Corp” sees Doug Naylor (again both writer & director) take such a subtle swipe at capitalism you may just miss it. I […]
Star Wars Rebels Season 4 Episode 7 Review – ‘Kindred’
Chris Cooper reviews the seventh episode of Star Wars Rebels season 4… “How have you people stayed alive so long?” “When it gets strange like this it’s a good thing.” “All the paths are coming together aren’t they?” Kindred is a very different episode to anything we’ve had in Season 4 so far. In fact, […]
Book Review – A Legacy of Spies by John le Carre
Ricky Church reviews A Legacy of Spies by John le Carre… John le Carre has had a long career as one of the best spy thriller writers with stories like The Night Manager and The Constant Gardener, but he’s most famous for the creation of George Smiley from stories such as Call for the Dead and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier […]
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 3 Episode 5 Review – ‘Return of the Mack’
Jessie Robertson reviews the fifth episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season 3… Rip Hunter returns! and there’s a vampire loose in London! As the threat of our now named supervillain (Mollusk? No Nate, Mollus) looms, the Legends season long story starts to take shape; that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for its utter ridiculousness […]
