Rating: ★★☆☆☆ I'll be honest, I was only an ocassional viewer of the six seasons of the TV series but by any metric, the arrival of The Immortal Man should have been a triumphant victory lap for a franchise that redefined the modern British period drama. Instead, this latest entry feels less like a sharp razor to the cap and more like a blunt instrument, struggling to justify its existence beyond brand extension. While the production remains undeniably handsome—dripping in th

Rating: ★★★★★ Spilt Milk captures the soul of 1980s Dublin with a raw, unflinching honesty. It is a rare film that manages to be both devastatingly bleak and fiercely hopeful, anchored by a story that feels lived-in and deeply authentic. For anyone who lived through the heroin epidemic in inner-city Dublin in the 1980s, this film will ring you right back to the world of the addicts, the pushers and the residents who organised to get the pushers out. The true magic of the fil

Rating: ★★★★★ If you have 18 minutes to spare, Singers (2025) is a masterclass in how to capture the profound within the mundane. Directed by Sam A. Davis and inspired by a 19th-century Russian short story by Ivan Turgenev, this film manages to turn a gritty, smoke-filled dive bar into a cathedral of human emotion. The brilliance of Singers lies in its casting. Davis famously scouted his actors—many of them first-timers—from viral TikTok and YouTube videos. This unconventiona