TV Recap: Silicon Valley, S02E05, Server Space
byThe narrative progress of Silicon Valley has always been ‘one step forward, two steps back’ for the Pied Piper team. Unfortunately this has often…
Film Review: Beloved Sisters (2014)
byScreening as part of the Festival of German Films, Beloved Sisters (2014) is a historical romance based on the lives of sisters Charlotte and…
Film Review: When Marnie Was There (2015)
byThink of animation and you think of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese studio that has given us such animated gems as My Neighbor Totoro, Princess…
TV Recap: Orphan Black S03E03, “Formalized, Complex and Costly”
byThe writers of BBC America’s Orphan Black, have thus-far been relatively good at balancing plausible against implausible over the life of the story, but the…
Film Review: Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
byThey’re back, pitches! After the success of television’s Glee and 2012’s Pitch Perfect, choirs and acapella groups have moved from their lowly position on…
Film Review: National Theatre Live – A View from the Bridge (2014)
byA View from the Bridge is the recent production from London’s young Vic theatre, beamed across the globes as part of the National Theatre…
Film Review: Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
byClouds of Sils Maria is a film of layers – layers of stories and experiences. Written and directed by Olivier Assayas, the film has…
Film Review: Unfriended (2014)
byIn the screen and social media fixated world of 2015, Unfriended fits in quite snug. Set place entirely on browser, Skype, messenger and desktop, this…
TV Recap: Silicon Valley, S02E04, The Lady
byThe major criticism of Silicon Valley in its first season was the lack of strong female characters in the cast. It could be argued…
Film Review: Ex Machina (2015)
byA great many science fiction stories have wrestled with the idea of artificial intelligence. In the case of the recent Battlestar Galactica reboot, and…