Originally published in print in September 2021. After recently finishing Lupin, a French mystery thriller produced by Netflix, I wasn’t shocked to see how well the show was received. What did pleasantly surprise me, however, was the reach this … Continue reading Saved by the Subtitles: The Growing Popularity of Non-English Series in Modern Television
Originally published in print February 2021. The worlds of film and television haven’t always gotten along too well. For the longest time, it was a sign of decline for a bigshot Hollywood actor to take up work on the small … Continue reading “It’s a 22-Hour Movie!” – Cinematic Television in the Streaming Wars
I can think of few filmmakers living today honoured with veteran status; like relics of an ancient civilisation, of monuments made from celluloid, new studio practices, and experimentalism. Martin Scorsese is surely one of those iconic, untouchable figures – somewhere … Continue reading A Personal Response to Martin Scorsese’s Essay
●●●○○ Throughout quarantine, I have found myself rewatching one of my favorite childhood TV shows, Phineas and Ferb. What better program for the seemingly endless summer of 2020 than one in which the summer truly never ends? With the recent … Continue reading Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe // Review
When Martin Scorsese pleaded that we not watch his 2019 Netflix-released film The Irishman on a phone, many rolled their eyes at his pretension. Increasingly desperate, he conceded that if we could not make it to the cinema then at … Continue reading How Lockdown Has Affected Watching Movies Will people go back to the cinema or has streaming finally won?
Picture yourself attending a cinema screening in the twentieth century: whichever your mind immediately casts itself back to, the image is often the same: a winding maze of a queue, massive buckets of popcorn, a full theatre, crowds streaming through … Continue reading Why It’s Worth Going to the Cinema Originally Published in Print November 2019
Instant-access content and the rapid evolution of technology has become a sort of boogeyman for today’s media. If you search the words ‘internet’ and ‘attention span’ into Google, you’ll find a varying torrent of articles from smaller and major news … Continue reading Are Streaming Services Ruining TV? Originally Published in Print September 2019
○○○○○ Like Roger Ebert in his review of The Human Centipede, I find myself unable to award E4’s Stage School a star rating. It’s not just because such a system is “unsuited” to this show. This show is so goddam … Continue reading Stage School- review
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t about ten to eight on the night of Monday 8th, Jimmy Iovine, Apple’s new music executive, in his own words “revolutionised” music and how we experience it by announcing Apple’s new streaming service. He proclaimed that their mission was … Continue reading Apple Music: A Glorious Revolution?
The stellar cast gives gravitas to the characters and their seemingly trivial individual situations and rescues the series from descending into melodrama with regards to the grittier aspects of the plot. (●●●○○) Continue reading Bloodline – review
Better Call Saul is a sharp and mature show, hilarious yet thoughtful, and it deserves your attention. (●●●●○) Continue reading Better Call Saul – review