UK TV review: True Detective – Season 1, Episode 6

A gripping cycle of broken masculinity.Read More

UK TV review: True Detective – Season 1, Episode 5

Episode 4 got your heart rate going – The Secret Fate of All Life sets your brain racing. Read More

UK TV review: True Detective – Season 1, Episode 4

True Detective keeps raising the bar with this impressively cinematic chapter.Read More

UK TV review: True Detective – Season 1, Episode 3

Nic Pizzolatto’s subtly shifting script delves into the personal lives of its detectives.Read More

UK TV review: True Detective – Season 1, Episode 2

The volatile bond between True Detective’s magnetic leads makes you want to keep watching.Read More

Sky Atlantic TV review: Fleming Episode 4

“This tale of Nazis and gun battles. I don’t believe a word of it.”

That’s Ian Fleming’s superior to him as he recounts the tale of his journey into Germany to retrieve nuclear plans. The author of the James Bond … Read More

Sky Atlantic TV review: Fleming Episode 3

If Episode 1 of Fleming introduced us to the Ian the man and Episode 2 introduced us to Ian the lover, Episode 3 completes his credentials as a Bond-like figure by introducing Ian the action hero.

The chapter starts with … Read More

UK TV review: True Detective – Season 1, Episode 1

The case isn’t the crime: it’s the men trying to solve it.Read More

Sky Atlantic TV review: Fleming Episode 2

There are unwritten rules when it comes to Bond girls that govern the bad and the good, the ones who live and the ones who die. You would expect Sky Atlantic’s Fleming, with all its nods to 007’s canon, to … Read More

Sky Atlantic TV review: Fleming Episode 1

“Everything I write has a precedent in truth.”

That’s the opening rationale behind Sky Atlantic’s Fleming, a four-part biopic of Ian Fleming. The parallels between the writer of James Bond and his fictional creation are familiar to die-hard fans of … Read More