Book Review: Stay Up With Hugo Best by Erin Somers

Twenty-nine year old June Bloom is finally getting somewhere in her career, as a writer’s assistant on the late-night show Stay Up With Hugo Best. And then it’s... Read More...

Book Review: The Colour Of The Sky After Rain by Tessa Keswick

At regular intervals throughout The Colour Of The Sky After Rain there are beautiful, full-page colour photographs depicting the splendour of China’s architectu... Read More...

Inna De Yard DVD Review

Buena Vista Social Club, but in Jamaica instead of Cuba. That’s the obvious pitch for Inna De Yard, and there’s no getting around the similarities: both films f... Read More...

Amanda Review

It’s the quiet that gets you. Amanda is the story of the titular girl (Isaure Multrier) whose mother Sandrine – along with an unnamed number of fellow Parisians... Read More...

Best books of 2019: The Flatshare, The Wicked King, Trick Mirror and more

Every January we’re left to wonder how this coming year could possibly top the one that came before it when it comes to the calibre of books on offer to readers... Read More...

Best TV shows of 2019: Fleabag, Chernobyl, On My Block and more

With every year that passes, it becomes more and more clear that the media landscape we first referred to as ‘The Golden Age Of TV’ is now just… TV. With the re... Read More...

Best movies of 2019: The Farewell, Toy Story 4, Booksmart and more

Okay, so it wasn’t the best year for films. Multiplex screens were eaten up by a succession of superhero movies and Disney live-action adaptations. Originality ... Read More...

18 best TV characters of 2019: Klaus Hargreeves, Nadia Vulvokov, Jim Hopper and more

2019 has been a year dominated by bleak politics. Thankfully the TV landscape fared much better, with some truly brilliant shows helping to keep our minds from ... Read More...

The Party’s Just Beginning Review

She works behind a supermarket cheese counter in Inverness, and they can’t even get her name badge right. That’s the smallest of the miseries that Luisaidh (Kar... Read More...

Book Review: The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

Tehran, 1953, before the coup. Iran is experiencing a brief spell of relative peace, although there are rumours of something terrible on the horizon. It’s again... Read More...

Permission Review

Afrooz (Baran Kasari) is the captain of Iran’s national women’s futsal (a variant of football) team. Largely due to her captaincy, the team have achieved a plac... Read More...

State Like Sleep Review

Calling your film State Like Sleep is a brave move. You may as well call it Tedium or Narcolepsy. You have to be pretty confident in your work to use such a cri... Read More...