The Telegraph1 day agoRed Rose, review: this slick smartphone horror will make you fear for your teenagers' safetyThe Telegraph - By Helen BrownThe fear that screen-based technology is stealing our children’s souls is real. It’s been exploited by horror films ever since the five-year-old Heather O’Rourke crawled toward her family’s haunted television in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic Poltergeist. Back then parents fretted that MTV …
The TelegraphWhat’s on TV tonight: Why Is My Car So Expensive?, Long Lost Family, and moreThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ReportersMonday 15 August Why Is My Car So Expensive?: Dispatches Channel 4, 8pm As the UK’s cost-of-living crisis really begins to bear down, Dispatches investigates the soaring cost of new and second-hand cars. Even with fuel prices at a record high, a Vehicle Excise Duty hike in April and climbing insurance …
The Telegraph2 days agoAfghanistan: Getting Out, review: a smart and sensitive overview of a complicated conflictThe Telegraph - By Jasper Rees‘Hey guys,” said a chirpy young woman looking out at the World Trade Center. “No more airplanes. New York’s a no fly zone.” The camera zoomed in on the burning towers. When it cut back to her she emitted an ear-splitting scream to rival Fay Wray. No sound so encapsulates the psychic shock that …
The Telegraph2 days agoMarriage, review: Sean Bean and Nicola Walker will shake you out of complacencyThe Telegraph - By Jasper ReesIt’s a backhanded way to measure success in a drama, but for the first three hours of Marriage (BBC One/iPlayer) I just wanted every other scene to end. It wasn’t so much those hypnotically dull ones where in comfortable silence Emma and Ian (Nicola Walker and Sean Bean) filled the dishwasher or …
The Telegraph4 days agoFive Days at Memorial, Apple TV+ review: disaster drama offers a timely and terrifying warningThe Telegraph - By Jasper ReesWith disasters there’s only so much you can do. When an epically catastrophic event puts many lives at risk, the storyteller’s job is to show how humanity reacts: heroically or, as it were, zeroically. Five Days at Memorial (Apple TV+) revisits Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and specifically Memorial …
The Telegraph5 days agoFootball Dreams: The Academy, review: a well-tackled focus on the kids who refuse to loseThe Telegraph - By Michael HoganDidn’t TV hear the Lionesses roar? Disappointingly, there was no room for girls in Football Dreams: The Academy (Channel 4). This docuseries about young soccer talent was filmed before England’s women brought it home, but its male-only focus felt old-fashioned. The grassroots girls’ game is …
