Rory Doherty is a writer of criticism, films, and plays based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He's often found watching something he knows he'll dislike but will agree to watch all of it anyway. You can follow his thoughts about all things stories @roryhasopinions.
Chief of War explores the fear of colonialism from a Hawaiian perspective (and language) in a series that is equal parts entertainment and historical preservation.
We look back at 1976's I, Claudius, a series that contains the Platonic ideal of what period dramas once used to sell their epic scope: performances oozing with venom, and sharp, compelling scripts.
Given the history of British explorers venturing into unknown waters and strange lands when they probably shouldn’t have, it’s no surprise that Brits are all over the Star Trek franchise.
Someone as cool, charismatic, and capable as Taron Egerton deserves to be showcasing the heavy, repressed emotions of Dave Gudsen, his dirty cop character in Smoke, in theaters. Instead, it's on Apple TV+.
Credit to Towards Zero, a good murder mystery solution should feel, in retrospect, inevitable, even if we didn’t necessarily see them coming, and the series pulls it off with aplomb.
Towards Zero's premiere episode follows the current Agatha Christie trend of flashy style over substance, but it is also so absorbing that you might not clock that there's no murder in the first hour.
On April 13, 1953, a WWII veteran named Ian Fleming published a fictional novel based on his experiences during the war featuring MI-6 agent James Bond. In honor of the anniversary of that debut, we run down our favorite spy films.
