The Report

The Torture Report (‘torture’ is redacted from the title during the opening credits) is a deliberately dry account of the investigation by the US Senate Intelligence Committee into the activities of the CIA post 9/11. It takes place over the period 2009 – 2015 and in particular seeks to establish the scope and effectiveness of…

The Nightingale

I may be right. I may be wrong. But I’m perfectly willing to swear, that when she pointed a flintlock musket at me, a nightingale sang in Tasmania. Jennifer Kent’s grim account of the ethnic cleaning of native people by the British Army in 1825 was definitely not one for the faint hearted. In fact…

Knives Out

Well this is going to be tricky to review. It’s an intricately constructed gothic country house murder mystery – so I can’t really go too far into the plot without triggering spoiler alerts. It has a host of well known faces including Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Evans, Don Johnson, Toni Collette and Michael Shannon, playing…