Why you should be watching Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

Season 3 premieres on 9th July 2024. This mini review is based on Season 1 and was originally published as part of a BBC Three reviews column.

Rising star Awkwafina (real name Nora Lum) plays Nora Lin, a fictionalised … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Ratched

“I wish I got to Mildred Ratched before the world got to her,” remarks someone halfway through Ratched, Netflix’s prequel to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. If that sentence made you do a double-take, this brazen, bloody piece of … Read More

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Why Netflix’s Fear City should be your next box set

The latest documentary series to hit Netflix is Fear City: New York vs the Mafia, a close look at five Mafia families that controlled the city of New York throughout the 1970s and and 1980s – and the FBI informants … Read More

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This unlikely pulp actioner is entertainingly ridiculous and ridiculously entertaining.Read More