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Maniac Season 1 Review
There are many words one could use to describe Netflix’s Maniac – weird, audacious, compelling, moving, clever, thoughtful – but the best is the simplest...
‘Quincy’ | Netflix Original Documentary Review
In a recent podcast episode, we discussed multi-talented stars and whether they are born with it or if they achieve their skills with an unrivalled...
The Judgement Season 1 Review
On the surface, The Judgement is a teen-oriented soap opera. It is set in the university of a modern city, a university which takes pride...
The Rise of Phoenixes Season 1 Review
Oh, look, Netflix is making my life difficult again. Here I was, quite looking forward to picking up a weekly show, especially one like The...
‘Last Hope’ Part 1 | Netflix Original Series Review
Debuting worldwide on Netflix today after having done the rounds in Japan since late March, Last Hope Part 1 delivers thirteen half-hour episodes of the...
‘Bleach’ | Netflix Original Film Review
I’m not the best person to review Netflix’s new live-action adaptation of Bleach, having neither seen the anime nor read the manga it was based...
The Dragon Prince Season 1 Review
I’ve been eagerly anticipating The Dragon Prince ever since it was first announced. I am a huge fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender (the series, I refuse to...
‘The Land of Steady Habits’ | Netflix Film Review
Anders Hill (Ben Mendelsohn), the main character in The Land of Steady Habits, is actually someone you would summarise as hopelessly pathetic. He is a man that had...
‘The Resistance Banker’ | Film Review
The Second World War might be the most catastrophic failure of civilisation in humanity’s brief history, but it’s a limitless font when it comes to...
‘The Angel’ | Netflix Original Film Review
The Angel brings a unique interpretation of the life and actions of notoriously elusive and arguably vital Ashraf Marwan. Netflix allows us to see how...
‘First and Last’ | Netflix Original Documentary Series Review
There have been no shortage of documentaries about prison and prisoners, but Netflix’s new original documentary series, First and Last, which debuted today, approaches the...
‘City of Joy’ | Netflix Documentary Review
I welled up ever so slightly during City of Joy. The Netflix documentary details so much tragedy, yet curtails the depression with hope, signifying a light at...
Sisters Season 1 Review – Netflix series is well-balanced
Netflix Original Series Sisters perhaps unsurprisingly follows three women who find out they are sisters. Julia learns that her Nobel Prize-winning father, who specialised in reproduction science...
‘Cathedral of the Sea’ (‘La catedral del mar’) | Netflix TV Review
Directed by Jordi Frades and adapted from the famed Spanish historical novel La catedral del mar by Ildefonso Falcones, Cathedral of the Sea is a...
Inside the Criminal Mind Season 1 Review
Netflix’s Inside the Criminal Mind is a four-part series exploring the answers experts have been seeking for decades – what makes evil criminals tick? Each episode...
Undercover Law Season 1 Review
You can have too much of a good thing, which you swiftly learn when your humble, home-grown media outlet develops a reputation for being the...
‘The Laws of Thermodynamics’ | Netflix Film Review
Netflix’s The Laws of Thermodynamics, or known in the native language as Las leyes de la termodinámica, is not the best film of 2018. But it is undeniably...
‘Ghoul’ Season 1 Netflix TV Review
Ghoul is set in a version of India which is ruled by the military and religious prejudice; presumably in the near future (nothing looks terribly...