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‘Daredevil’ Season 3, Episode 8 – “Upstairs/Downstairs” | TV Review
This review of Daredevil Season 3, Episode 8, “Upstairs/Downstairs”, contains spoilers. Daredevil has always had a knack for bizarrely perverting traditional superhero iconography, and I...
‘Derren Brown: Sacrifice’ | Netflix Documentary Review
Derren Brown is the enigma of our time, regardless if you endorse his variety of work. It’s easy to be cynical with his archives of...
‘Best Worst Weekend Ever’ | Netflix Original Series Review
Debuting on Netflix today, the new eight-part limited series Best Worst Weekend Ever is the latest in a long, successful line of teen-skewing content for...
‘Accidentally in Love’ Season 1 Review – Odd But Fun
This series competes against the likes of the 60-episode-long Undercover Law and the 70-episode-long The Rise of Phoenixes. To be fair, Netflix Chinese drama Accidentally in Love is...
‘Haunted’ | Netflix Original Series Review
Since watching all six episodes of Haunted, Netflix’s new, ostensibly factual original series, I’ve been wondering how best to ridicule it without offending any of...
‘Illang: The Wolf Brigade’ (‘Inrang’) | Netflix Film Review
Based on the Japanese animated film Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, the live-action adaptation Illang: The Wolf Brigade, otherwise known as Inrang, is a powerful piece of work by director Jee-woon...
‘Making a Murderer: Part 2 ‘| Netflix Original Series Review
Netflix did it again with another fiery documentary series that provokes rational thinking. Making a Murderer: Part 2 delivers a damning case study into the pitfalls of...
‘ReMastered: Who Shot The Sheriff’ | Netflix Documentary Review
Netflix Original ReMastered is a series of episodes that gives an in-depth look at music’s greatest legends. The other episodes have not been officially promoted yet...
‘Daredevil’ Season 3 | Netflix Original Series Review
Marvel and Netflix’s Daredevil has always revelled in Matt Murdock’s (Charlie Cox) vigilantism being a metaphor for Irish-Catholic self-penance. But the first six episodes of...
‘Kuntilanak’ | Netflix Film Review
Only a few weeks ago I grumbled at The 3rd Eye for its lack of imagination and new ideas for the horror genre. And here we are...
Fightworld Season 1 Review
Frank Grillo makes an enthusiastic host in Netflix’s new original documentary series Fightworld. The 53-year-old actor is shredded, grizzled, and a lifelong fight fan; the...
‘Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil’ | Netflix Film Review
Landing on Netflix is a slice of hell, wrapped in Paul Urkijo Alijo‘s visionary work that portrays the workings of the underworld and a blacksmith determined...
‘Feminists: What Were They Thinking?’ | Netflix Documentary Review
Netflix documentary Feminists: What Were They Thinking? has arrived on the streaming platform at a time where a sober reminder is necessary. October 2018 will be sadly...
’22 July’ | Netflix Original Film Review
Between instalments of the Bourne franchise, director Paul Greengrass has established himself as a master at dramatizing real-life tragedy. Possessed of an uncanny ability to...
‘Elite’ Season 1 | Netflix Original Series Review
Sex, murder, drugs, blackmail and the usual high-school shenanigans are to be found in the eight-part soapy Spanish series Elite, which debuted on Netflix today....
‘Malevolent’ (2018) | Netflix Original Film Review
Malevolent is an unusual beast: it was made in the USA, filmed in Glasgow, directed by a man from Iceland; it stars just a couple...
‘Dancing Queen’ (2018) | Netflix Original Series Review
It’s difficult to comprehend a show like Netflix’s Dancing Queen; I feel torn and uneasy at the pressure put on children to perform. It becomes bizarrely...
‘Lost Song’ Season 1 | Netflix Original Series Review
Released globally on Netflix today, Lost Song is a 12-part musical fantasy anime series that begins unassumingly and predictably. Produced by Liden Films in collaboration with Dwango and Mages, it’s...