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“No easy answers… bravura cinematic choices”: Civil War

During the assault on The White House in the riveting climax to Alex Garland’s Civil War, soldiers fight in the narrow corridors of America’s sullied power. Automatic fire resonates and echoes as ex-presidents look on, too helpless to intervene,...

“A heartfelt tribute to this enigmatic world”: House of Ninjas review

Directed by Dave Boyle, House of Ninjas is a Japanese series co-produced by Netflix and TOHO Studios. Based on a story by Kento Kaku, Takafumi Imai and Yoshiaki Murao, the non-English speaking show reached the Streamer Top 10 in over 90 countries....

Why disabled people object to assisted suicide – when they’re not “pro-life”

Yesterday, a small group of Members of Parliament got together to debate the rights and wrongs of legalising assisted suicide. The debate did not have the power to change the law in England and Wales, however it could be one element of laying the...

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