New Zealander Anna Smaill’s debut novel is an interesting choice for the Man Booker longlist. It crosses at least one, and I suspect, two, general Booker taboos – it’s genre fiction, and it...
In the live action adaptation of the popular manga series “Attack On Titan” the scraps of flesh that make up the last surviving members of humanity have been cowering in fear behind three...
It’s hard to image that a television series about urban planning would be that interesting — one might as well subscribe to a channel allowing people to watch paint dry, or Norway’s infamous...
Indian Summers, the latest UK telly import, will be hitting US screens via PBS this September. The show appears tipped to be a Downton Abbey successor, building on what made the smash hit such a...
Exotic. A word that contains worlds. You browse through a dictionary, and you find the word exotic defined as “strange or unusual”. In its archaic sense, it was used as synonym of foreign or...
The countdown to a new season of Doctor Who has begun with the announcement of a 19 September premiere, and while we’ll be seeing the usual suspects, Moffat has once again recruited some famous...
Baltimore is a city that I have never visited, despite frequent trips to the US (from my Australian home) in the 1990s. Yet, of all the places in the US I have never been, it sits alongside New...
One of the most hotly-anticipated offerings on Netflix this month is Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, a prequel to 2001’s bizarre cult hit, Wet Hot American Summer. It joins an army of...
The longlist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize was announced Wednesday at midday London time. It’s a 13-book list with some interesting omissions, and possibly (although this is arguable) some emerging...
On Sunday night, the US was treated to the first entry in the eight part docuseries I Am Cait, following Caitlyn Jenner’s first steps into the limelight post-transition. It’s perhaps not...
