Book Review: The Offing by Benjamin Myers

The summer of his sixteenth year, not long after World War Two has ended, Robert sets off on a journey round Britain. He’s near enough resigned himself to spend... Read More...

JT LeRoy Review

In the late nineties and early noughties, JT LeRoy was a literary sensation. His books were beloved bestsellers. Movie adaptations were in the works. Everyone w... Read More...

In Safe Hands DVD Review

In Safe Hands is a journey through the French adoption system, following baby Theo from birth to the day he moves in with his new mother. Jeanne Herry’s film... Read More...

Book Review: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

The most tired piece of advice given to first time novelists is ‘write what you know’. It discounts both the power of imagination and the power of good research... Read More...

Book Review: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Think Cinderella, but in Mexico, in the 1920’s. And instead of a handsome prince, there’s a handsome death god. Casiopea is the eighteen-year-old granddaught... Read More...

Five Feet Apart DVD Review

Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) and Will (Cole Sprouse) are two seventeen-year-olds with life threatening Cystic Fibrosis. They meet in a hospital ward and fall in... Read More...

Our Time Review

Juan (Carlos Reygadas) and Esther (Natalia López) own a bull ranch in the Mexican countryside, where they live with their three children. He’s an acclaimed poet... Read More...

Book Review: Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland

We never learn her name. When we meet the heroine of Fake Like Me, she is a struggling artist in awe of the notorious Pine City collective, Carey Logan being he... Read More...

Book Review: Expectation by Anna Hope

Lissa is an actress who’s fed up of the grind. Cate’s a new mum who is lonely in her marriage. Hannah’s strenuous IVF journey has left her husband feeling shut ... Read More...

Jellyfish Review

To say that Sarah (Liv Hill) lives a difficult life would be an enormous understatement. Her single mother (Sinead Matthews) is severely bipolar, and so she is ... Read More...

Cold Pursuit DVD Review

Nels Coxman (Liam Neeson) is a snowplough driver, who has just been awarded ‘Citizen Of The Year’ by his fellow residents in the ski town of Kehoe, Colorado. He... Read More...

Book Review: Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

After suffering through years of a tempestuous marriage, New York doctor Toby Fleishman has finally gotten his wife Rachel to agree to a divorce. Before they ca... Read More...