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‘Daredevil’ Season 3, Episode 8 – “Upstairs/Downstairs” | TV Review

October 21 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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

October 19 2018, by Daniel Hart

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

October 19 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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

October 19 2018, by Daniel Hart

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

October 19 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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

October 19 2018, by Daniel Hart

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

October 19 2018, by Daniel Hart

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

October 12 2018, by Daniel Hart

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

October 12 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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

October 12 2018, by Daniel Hart

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

October 12 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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

October 12 2018, by Daniel Hart

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

October 11 2018, by Daniel Hart

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

October 10 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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

October 5 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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

October 5 2018, by Alix Turner

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

October 5 2018, by Daniel Hart

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

October 5 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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...