Few shows manage to improve on a strong first season, but A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder somehow does exactly that. Season 2 is darker, smarter and far more emotionally gripping than what came before. What began as a compelling teen mystery has evolved into something much more intense, delivering a story that feels mature, unsettling and…
★★★☆☆ There’s something really uncomfortable about The Wasp at Southwark Playhouse Borough and I mean that as a compliment. Written by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, this twisting psychological thriller keeps you guessing for most of its 1 hour 40 minute runtime. It starts off fairly simple: two women who haven’t seen each other since school meet for tea and awkward…
The new trailer for the hotly anticipated Christopher Nolan blockbuster has landed and does not disappoint. The Odyssey is a classic Greek tale that tells the story of the Ithaca king Odysseus and his long adventurous journey home after the Trojan war to be reunited with his wife Penelope. Its one of the most famous…
When you watch a theatre show and you are completely absorbed in the production, thinking of nothing else, it becomes something special. This is one of those shows that I will think about for a long time. Watching Romeo and Juliet at the Harold Pinter Theatre felt like that kind of experience. For me, William Shakespeare is a hit and miss…
First things first. The Harry Potter film franchise was an integral part of my childhood, and this HBO-produced, mega-budget TV series feels too soon and too familiar to justify its own existence. The trailer landed yesterday and, while it doesn’t look bad on a technical level, the ghosts of its predecessors haunt every frame. It…
From 2013 to 2022, Peaky Blinders, created by Steven Knight, dominated TV’s crime drama landscape with its distinctive style and unforgettable characters. At the heart of it all was Birmingham’s Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy), a war-scarred anti-hero who rose from the trauma of the First World War trenches to lead his family’s Romani-traveller crime empire. Despite his…
Gary Hilborn appears in five episodes of the new season of The Night Agent as Trent Patterson, the Head of the Secret Service at the White House. A seasoned actor with deep roots in theatre and a growing slate of screen and writing projects, Hilborn brings authority, warmth, and lived-in authenticity to every role he takes on….
If you’re looking for your next binge-worthy thriller, 56 Days is a must-watch. This isn’t just another crime drama. It’s a distinctive, tightly wound mystery wrapped inside a riveting, sexy psychological thriller the kind that makes you promise yourself one more episode and then immediately ignore that promise. The series opens with a grim discovery inside Apartment…
Filmmaking often looks glamorous from the outside the finished frames, the festival screenings, the cinematic escape. But as director and actor Josh Shea reminds us, the reality is far more grounded. It’s early mornings before sunrise, coffee in hand, and a quiet moment of disbelief where you ask yourself, what are we actually doing? In this…
It seems that there is at least one Agatha Christie adaptation released every year, either at the cinema, streaming or on terrestrial TV and the popularity of the world famous murder mystery novelist, who died in 1976, shows no sign of waning. “Seven Dials” out now on Netflix does not try and invent the wheel….
