Last Breath Review

In 2012, at the bottom of the North Sea, three commercial divers were performing a routine job. Deep sea divers rely on an ‘umbilical cord’ to keep them safe un... Read More...

Book Review: Some Kids I Taught And What They Taught Me by Kate Clanchy

Kate Clanchy has been teaching in schools for thirty years. In Some Kids I Taught And What They Taught Me, she tells the story of her most memorable pupils, and... Read More...

Book Review: Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin

Few books have been adapted as often, and in as many different ways, as Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. There have been prequels, sequels, complete reimagini... Read More...

3 Faces Review

In 2010, Jafar Panahi was banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government. But he did not stop. Since his ban, which has also prevented him from leaving Iran, ... Read More...

A Trip To The Moon Review

A Trip To The Moon, the debut feature from Argentinian director Joaquín Cambre, tells the story of fourteen year-old Tomás. Still traumatised by a mysterious in... Read More...

My Brilliant Friend DVD review: Just as evocative as Ferrante’s novels

Adapted from the first of Elena Ferrante’s four ‘Neapolitan Novels’, My Brilliant Friend follows the complicated lives of Lenù and Lila, two girls who live in a... Read More...

Book Review: Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li

Number One Chinese Restaurant follows the lives of the owners and waitstaff of The Beijing Duck House, located just outside Washington DC. Once a favoured dinin... Read More...

Book Review: The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy

Following Alice Burns and her troubled parents and brothers from the early 1970s to the late 1980s, The Great Wide Open is an epic tale that explores the ways t... Read More...

Monsters and Men Review

Police brutality against African-Americans has been the subject of some of the best films of the last year. Blindspotting, BlackKklansman and The Hate U Give ha... Read More...

The House By The Sea Review

After their aged father suffers a debilitating stroke, Angèle (Ariane Ascaride), Joseph (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) and Armand (Gérard Meylan) reunite in their fam... Read More...

Book Review: All The Lonely People by David Owen

Kat has never fit in at her school. Socially awkward and immersed in nerd culture, she feels much more at home on the internet where she can be who she wants to... Read More...

12 Best TV Characters of 2018: Becky Sharp, Villanelle, Ambrose Spellman and more

When a TV character is well written and perfectly cast, it doesn't take long for them to charm their way into viewers' hearts. Whether they're deliciously de... Read More...