Every now and then you find yourself admiring something for its purity, if not necessarily it’s beauty. Criminal: UK, is one quarter of the four country justice tour that Netflix have just released. Each 45 minute episode unfolds inside ‘The Box’ where a suspect is being interrogated. All we know is the elemental nature of the …
Wu Assassins, on paper, is the exact sort of urban fantasy cheese I run headlong at. Iko Uwais, the astonishing lead of The Raid movies, starts as Kai Jin. An Indonesian-Chinese chef and the adopted son of Triad leader Uncle Six (Byron Mann), Kai discovers that he is the Wu Assassin. Five elemental powers have echoed down …
Years before the events of the original movie, the Skeksis and Gelfling live in peace. Until palace guards Rian (Taran Edgerton and Neil Sterenberg) and Mira (Alicia Vikander and Helena Smee) make a horrifying discover. Their Lords are using them as batteries, draining them to extend their lives. And they are hungry… This is, by …
Netflix have two terrible habits; cancelling a show two seasons in (Tuca and Bertie and The OA most recently) and chopping a 13 episode production order into two six episode ones and claiming they’re whole seasons. This really hurt the middle seasons of Voltron but it’s something She-Ra turns not just into a feature but a driving force. There are two arcs …
Directed by Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim and written by Amer and Erin Bennett, The Great Hack is the story of the Cambridge Analytica scandal told through several perspectives. One is David Carroll, a New York academic who took them to court to see the data they had on him. One is Carole Cadwalladr, …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid . If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. We watched this last night. This morning we watched Theresa May resign, …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid . If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. I am always there for a horror movie that dances the apocalypse …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 22nd March 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) is having the time of her …
We finished off Lost in Space season 1 a couple of days ago and it’s much stronger than the first couple of episodes would lead you to believe. The show folds not one but two pretty much complete thematic shifts into ten episodes which is more than a lot of series manage in three times that amount …
Wild Wild Country is the story of the catastrophic culture clash between the people of Antelope, Oregon and the Rajneeshee religious group in the early 1980s. It starts wild and gets wilder, the six episodes including a story about liquefying beavers that will haunt my nightmares, interviews with the people responsible for the first major bio …