Utopia: episode 6 – review
Channel 4’s Utopia has come to a head; it’s time for the final episode, and get ready for some blood. Surprise surprise, the final message you come away with at the end of this episode is trust no one –but More...
Black Mirror: ‘The Waldo Moment’ – review
The last episode in the current series of Black Mirror begins with an MP resigning because of pornographic pictures of a teenage girl appearing on his Twitter account. The resulting by-election provides the main More...
“People Like Us” is not an isolated incident
Broadcasters consistently use the spectacle of poverty not just to entertain, but to justify politically essential class hatred BBC3 documentary “People Like Us” has run into a problem. Over 200 angry residents More...
Utopia: episode 5 – review
It’s episode 5 of Utopia; our characters are more fragmented from one another than ever, and no more trustworthy. Slowly motives are reaching the surface for villains, heroes and the in between, and the episode More...
Utopia: episode 4 – review
Episode 4 of Utopia takes us into darker, more disturbing realms as well as the painfully cheesy. Yet again we are taught we can trust no one, we see sanity wavering even for kids and a gory sinister script emerges More...
Sweet Tooth Sunday: Simon Rimmer’s chocolate almond cakes
Most of you will know Simon Rimmer, the Liverpudlian chef made famous on Sunday mornings with his sidekick Tim Lovejoy on BBC’s Something for the Weekend and now on Channel 4 with Sunday Brunch. He is famous More...
Utopia: episode 3 – review
Episode 3 of Utopia once again begins with a hit of violence. Now with the seemingly sharper of the villains wiped out by Wilson Wilson, it’s a one man show, and he begins with shooting relentlessly through a More...
Utopia: episode 2 – review
Utopia is back for its second episode, and finally it seems we’ll learn the identity of the infamous Jessica Hide. This episode does a literal U-turn from any everyday life featured in the previous, and straight More...
Utopia: episode 1 – review
Utopia’s premise doesn’t prepare you for what you are about to watch. If you were to try and sum it up it would be something along the lines of a conspiracy theory thriller, yet with a possibly supernatural More...
12 Days of Xmas: The Snowman – review
Counting down to Christmas, the Arts & Culture section will be bringing you a festive review from now until Christmas day! Tune in daily to see what delight awaits. It’s that time of year again – as More...