• Film Review – Spooks: The Greater Good

    Spooks: The Greater Good is a big screen revival of a small screen success. The BBC television series from which it continues ended in 2011 after a nine year run. Now resuming the plot in 2015, the film offers multiple stories revolving around Harry Pearce’s (Peter Firth) squad of MI5...
  • Debates, dubious polls and rampant negativity: what can we expect from the general election campaign?

    ‘Am I tough enough? Hell yes I am’ were the words of one confident Miliband last Thursday. Facing the charming but venomous Jeremy Paxman, Ed Miliband was stronger than his rival David Cameron, arguing chiefly of the importance in his polices of improving the living standards of ordinary workers....
  • TV Review – Spiral, Series 5

    The phrase ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave’ springs immediately to mind when describing the fifth series of the fantastic French import Spiral (Engrenages), which documents the efforts of an embattled Parisian police team and the lawyers of the Palais de Justice as they attempt to solve various...
  • #SaveOurShow – How the Hashtag Can Revive a Fallen Series

    Friday 16th January 2015; a grave day for In the Flesh fandom as BBC Three announced it was not going to be renewing the show for a third season due to budget cuts that include the channel’s on air presence remaining an uncertainty. However, fans of the series continue not to show...
  • TV Review – The Apprentice, Series 10

    Warning: Spoilers follow! So after twelve gruelling weeks of fat daddies and flat skeletons, Lord Sugar has found his tenth Apprentice, or rather, business partner – Mark Wright. Yes, the cocksure Aussie pipped Bianca Miller to the post to secure a £250,000 investment for his business ‘Climb Online’ (NOT ‘Clim Bonline’,...
  • Next on Netflix #18

    Welcoming a return to Next on Netflix, Liam launches the latest of our next best recommendations with three very assorted yet advisable titles to experience. The Square This Egyptian-American documentary from director Jehane Noujaim was the first Netflix production to be nominated for an Oscar in 2013, and was robbed of...
  • TV Review – Doctor Who, Series 8

    Warning: Season spoilers follow! Another series has come to a thrilling end. A new Doctor has well and truly landed, with the fantastic Peter Capaldi portraying a darker, less sympathetic Doctor than Matt Smith’s childish incarnation. It’s been a great series, with huge surprises and twists that have kept...