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With a critical response size probably disproportionate to its viewing figures, Mark Cousin’s cine-docu-essay-poem Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise aired on Saturday as part of the BBC’s coverage remembering the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings 70 years ago. The manner in which the film was constructed, while typical of...

Long gone are the days when a new Netflix show was an event. The bold new network drops something every other week now, and the misses amongst the hits matter much less. Bojack Horseman is absolutely the latter; a cartoon about a talking horse which manages to be both...

*Season Spoilers Ahead* Coming off an incredible first season that was followed  by an explosive second season, expectations were high for Arrow Season 3. Episodes one to nine felt up to standard, concluding with the best mid-season finale the show has produced yet. But the episodes that came in the second...

As time rolls closer to the end of the decade, many critics are already claiming the past ten to fifteen years as the “Golden Age of Television”. Since HBO graced the world of TV crime drama with David Chases’ seminal and groundbreaking Sopranos and David Simon’s uber-realistic The Wire,...

Making our annual return to the Netflix original creation by Jenji Kohan, based upon Piper Kerman’s real-life prison experiences memoir, the third season of Orange Is the New Black is admirable for its directional ambition. Unafraid to contravene the dramatic plot-driven status quo it established in its inaugural season,...

Managing to keep the momentum building from the end of Series 1, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (AoS) Series 2 was packed full of superhero drama, heightened stakes and constant plot twists. Learning from the mistakes of the past, the creators finally delivered the show we wanted and more. AoS...

The Theory of Everything was one of the most successful films of 2014 with Eddie Redmayne winning an Oscar for his portrayal of the man in the spotlight, Stephen Hawking. This documentary delves deeper into his life where we learn about his day-to-day activities and the challenges he faces....