7 d. ago Nicola Sturgeon reveals she has started writing 'counterfactual political thriller'

Former first minister also accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of ‘selling snake oil’

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8 d. ago Idris Elba makes a rare appearance with his daughter Isan at the New York Film Festival premiere of A House Of Dynamite

The actor and rapper, 53, was among the stars of the American political thriller who attended the premiere at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in NYC on Sunday.

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9 d. ago Americans left 'baffled' by Britain's love for Jaffa Cakes which are in 'every' TV show

Reddit users have trying to work out what’s so special about Jaffa Cakes after they appeared prominently in hit Apple TV spy drama Slow Horses

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1 week ago House of Guinness on Netflix review: this 'stout Succession' is no Peaky Blinders

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is back with a period drama that applies his tried and tested formula to 19th-century Ireland

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1 week ago House of Guinness on Netflix review: this Stout Succession tries and fails to split the G

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is back with a period drama that applies his tried and tested formula to 19th-century Ireland

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1 week ago Jessica Chastain opposes Apple TV+ decision to delay 'The Savant' after Charlie Kirk's death

“The Savant” star Jessica Chastain says she disagrees with the decision to postpone the release of the Apple TV+ political thriller series

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1 week ago What is Apple TV+ drama The Savant about? Inside the 'cancelled' political thriller

The Savant was due to premiere soon on Apple TV+ this week but has just been postponed without a new release date

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1 week ago What is The Savant about? Inside the Apple TV+ drama that’s been pulled from the schedule

An upcoming political thriller has just been pulled from Apple TV+’s schedule in the wake of recent events - let’s take a look at the real-life story that inspired The Savant

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1 week ago Slow Horses season five review – not even Gary Oldman can salvage this TV mess

It’s the worst outing yet for the Slough House gang, with main characters having unnerving personality transplants and ‘action’ sequences taking place in penguin enclosures. Yikes!The fifth season of Slow Horses starts with a timely sequence: a gun attack perpetrated by a follower of a far-right politician (we even briefly glimpse a few St George’s crosses). Rightwing politics is an area that Apple TV+’s spy drama has tackled before; back in season one, a British-Pakistani student was memorably taken on a joyride by a nationalist group named Sons of Albion, who threatened to behead him on a live stream.However, like many things in the Slow Horses universe – based on Mick Herron’s bestselling novels about a group of MI5 rejects – the opening proves something of a red herring. Season five isn’t really about white nationalists, or environmental activists, or hostile foreign actors, and yet it is also about all of those things, all at once. As a result, it is overstuffed and strangely l...

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1 week ago Slow Horses review: Apple TV viewers can expect action packed drama and a surprise romance as the highly anticipated fifth series returns

They don't waste time on Slow Horses, which is back for a much-anticipated fifth series.

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1 week ago Slow Horses review: Apple TV viewers can expect action packed drama and a surprise romance as the highly

They don't waste time on Slow Horses, which is back for a much-anticipated fifth series.

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2 w. ago The Handmaid's Tale star lads very different role in returning comedy series with Hollywood legend

The Handmaid's Tale star Yvonne Strahovski has joined the cast of a hit Apple TV+ crime drama for its second season

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2 w. ago Mission Alarum review – dreadful Sylvester Stallone spy thriller shames cinema itself

Donald Trump’s ‘special ambassador to Hollywood’ plays a grizzled agent in this dismal action movie Back at the beginning of the second Trump administration (which feels like the Jurassic era now), the president named Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight “special ambassadors to a great but troubled place, Hollywood, California.” No one seems to be quite sure what these ambassadorships entail or if any of that troika of right-wing fellow travellers have fulfilled any official duties. But on the evidence of this, Stallone is already letting the side down – by making a film so bad it shames American cinema itself. And it wasn’t even made in Hollywood! Instead, it was shot in Ohio (pretending, deeply unconvincingly, to be Poland), making this what’s called a runaway production, the phenomenon that is undermining Hollywood’s film-making industry.However, this cheapola would-be spy thriller is bad all on its own, whatever its politics. The idea is that secret agents Joe (Scott Ea...

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2 w. ago Netflix fans urged to watch 'insane' political thriller as new season trailer drops

The political drama boasts an impressive 90% Rotten Tomatoes score

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2 w. ago One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter

Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reactionOne of the great creative bromances has flowered again: Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon. Having adapted Pynchon’s Inherent Vice for the screen in 2015, Anderson has now taken a freer rein with his 1990 novel Vineland, creating a bizarre action thriller driven by pulpy comic-book energy and transformed political indignation, keeping his pedal at all times welded to the metal.It’s a riff on the now recognisable Anderson-Pynchonian idea of counterculture and counter-revolution, absorbing the paranoid style of American politics into a screwball farcical resistance, with a jolting, jangling, nerve-shredding score by Jonny Greenwood. It’s partly a freaky-Freudian diagnosis of father-daughter dysfunction – juxtaposed with the separation of migrant children and parents at the US-Mexico border – and a very serious, relevant response to the U...

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3 w. ago Adolescence triumphs at the Emmys while The Studio breaks records

Netflix drama dominated limited series categories while first season of Apple TV+ satire became most awarded comedy everFull list of Emmy 2025 winnersNetflix’s breakout drama Adolescence has triumphed at this year’s Emmys, winning six awards.The series, which became the streamer’s second most-watched show ever, won for limited series, directing and writing and also picked up three acting awards. Continue reading...

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