Category What To Watch
London Symphony: cinema and the city
Ultimately, it is a beautifully shot and cleverly composed ode to the city I call home.
Finders Keepers
The Keepers explores the case of Sister Cathy Cesnik, a young nun and school teacher who went missing in 1969 in Baltimore. Her body was found two months later dumped on remote scrubland, yet to this day her murder remains unsolved.
Redwater flows far from Albert Square
The opening credits are a work of art: a haunting score of sorrowful Celtic strings accompany scenes of the Irish coast, taking us to a place far away from Albert Square.
It’s a man’s world: The Handmaid’s Tale
Based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Attwood, The Handmaid’s Tale takes us to a not-to-distant dystopian future, where the United States is no more. Instead, following a catastrophic civil war, the state of Gilead stands. Governed by hyper-conservative Christian fundamentalists (Think Westboro Baptists meet The Hunger Games), Gilead is plagued by mass infertility, a […]
OITNB is the new black
Series 5 of Orange Is The New Black returned last Friday. It goes without saying, but I binged the lot in two days. But hey, that’s my job. At the end of last season, we left TV’s favourite felons holding a guard at gunpoint and the prison was about to descend into chaos. Season 5 […]
