Review

And so we come to the final curtain. The Doctor Falls is a bold title for the last episode in the series, and sets the stage for an hour’s worth of shining character performances. The plot of this week’s episode is fairly predictable, with the cybermen turning on the Doctor, …

World Enough and Time, the penultimate episode in this series of Doctor Who, is all about playing with expectation. It still provides the traditional mix of sci-fi scares and light horror but, really, this is 45-minutes with everything feeling a teensy-weensy bit out of place. And, despite a slow middle, …

It’s clear from the outset that Rime is special. With a slow, deliberate introduction, we meet a boy, washed ashore on a strange and unfamiliar beach with seemingly no memory of how he got there. A sweeping, beautiful soundtrack kicks in as the boy rises to his feet and takes …

Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) falls through a starry void and finds himself in a part of the Black Lodge we haven’t seen before. It seems the Red Room is just one small part of this labyrinthine netherworld. The opening scenes of the third episode are David Lynch at his most …

The original Outlast (opens in new tab) is a masterclass in horror, its first hour an intimidating lesson in building fear and tension. From the moment you clamber into the abandoned Mount Massive Asylum – through a window that has clearly been used as an escape route – the grim …

Brit director Ben Wheatley follows up High-Rise (opens in new tab) with another ’70s showcase. Swapping a tower block for a warehouse, he boldly builds an entire film around the mother of all Mexican stand-offs. Any one-location movie is a risky proposition, but Wheatley and co-writer/co-editor Amy Jump double their …

Iron Fist is a show of two very contrasting halves: the first half slowly introduces the story of Danny Rand (played by Game of Thrones’ Finn Jones), who has returned to New York after a 15-year absence, in that time undergoing training to becoming the Iron Fist. The second half …

Andromeda should have been a smart new chapter for the Mass Effect series. As far as the story goes, it is. 634 years since setting off into deep space, a colony of ships from the Milky Way – representing most of the major species from our galaxy – arrives in …

Not much actually happens in Static. The Roci, having miraculously survived a showdown with a stealth ship, is in sore need of repairs at Tycho Station, leaving her crew an unexpected amount of free time. They drink, they play handball, they hit the club, they talk. They don’t really do …

Westworld plays you. It plays you as assuredly as the skeletal fingers that dance across the piano keys in the title sequence (opens in new tab). Each episode (opens in new tab) draws you in and seduces you with the promise of revelations, before flipping those expectations on their head …