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.
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.
Truelove's creators couldn’t have predicted its story of assisted suicide would become a dominant discourse in the country months after it premiered in January 2024; its arrival in the States couldn't have been better timed.
There’s not a lot original about MobLand, only a punchy premise and perfunctory efforts at character drama that you fear will be tediously stretched out over ten episodes.
How do you know a British actor is becoming a national treasure in real time? In the case of Stephen Graham, it’s the fact that every type of audience has unanimously recognized the actor’s singular, invaluable talents across the past decade.
After a good few years of overlong, cringingly unfunny, and pandering Academy Awards telecasts, this year’s Oscars had a refreshing sharpness and humor to them, but sadly, the Brits were shut out.
