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© Netflix If you thought Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng were bad for home ownership, you clearly haven't been watching 'The Watcher'. Ryan Murphy's seven episode mystery on Netflix is based on a true story documented in 2018 by New York magazine's 'The Cut' about a couple, Derek and Maria Broaddus who received anonymous threatening letters after moving into a dream home in Westfield, New Jersey. Bobby Cannavale and Naomi Watts play the fictional version of the Broadduses, Dean and Nora Braddock who fall for a house in Westfield and successfully bid for it. Moving in with their two teenage children, Isabel Gravitt's Ellie and Luke David Blumm's Carter, Dean ploughs all the family's savings into the house which has architectural curios like a dumb waiter. © Netflix But as soon as they move in, the family starts to have some weird experiences. Ellie hears music emanating from an empty room in the house. The Braddocks shortly receive a threatening lett

© Netflix  There's something heartening about a solidly made, edge of your seat thriller. It used to be you could rely on the studios to produce them along with their action movies, their sci-fi adventures and comedies. But nowadays if you want a sure footed, superbly acted drama you have turn to streaming services to find them. And so it is with Danish director Tobias Lindholm's 'The Good Nurse' which after a brief cinema release has quickly wound up on Netflix. © Netflix Lindholm is probably best known as the screenwriter behind Thomas Vinterberg's excellent, challenging movies ' Jagten (The Hunt') and ' Druk (Another Round') . However he also directed the superb 2012 modern day pirates thriller 'Kapringen (A Hijacking)' and the 2015 Best Foreign Language film nominee ' Krigen (A War) '. 'The Good Nurse' is his fourth feature as a director and his first in the English language. Adapted for the big screen by Scottish screenw

©BBC  It's not that hard to convey  just how poor the first series of BBC1's Northern Ireland cop drama 'Bloodlands' really was . What's hard to fathom, though, is just how quickly the BBC moved to give this ridiculous thriller a second series. As the credits rolled on a show that was about as credible as BBC Northern Ireland's God awful sitcom 'Give My Head Peace', a second series was hastily announced. And so here we are, wading once again into the murky waters of Northern Ireland's Troubles and their impact on the present. ©BBC If sitting down to watch Series One of 'Bloodlands' was a joyless experience, Series Two offered little hope that it could somehow conjure a plausible plot. 'Bloodlands' is the creation of the Northern Irish writer Chris Brandon. It counts among its executive producers Jed Mercurio who knows a thing or two about crafting taut thrillers. So why is the show so dire? This time around, the programme makers do ap

© Searchlight Pictures and Film 4 The West has been awake for many years in Martin McDonagh's work - mostly in the theatre. Most of his plays from 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane' to 'A Skull in Connemara' to 'The Lonesome West' and 'The Cripple of Inishman' to 'The Lieutenant of Inishmore' have taken place on Ireland's west coast or, to be more specific, in Co Galway. His movies, however, have tended not to venture there, with their darkly comic tales unfolding in Bruges, California and Missouri.  McDonagh's fourth feature, however, finds him heading back to Ireland's west coast for a bitter tale of broken male friendship and shocking violence.  © Searchlight Pictures and Film 4 'The Banshees of Inisherin' is a period drama set in 1923. This is no 'Ryan's Daughter,' however. The film instead bears the scars of some of the darkest drama and blackest humour you will see on a cinema screen this year. And while it is