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First Viewing Viewing Date: February 27th Via: iTunes Store Plot: With a serial killer terrorising New York City, a quadriplegic former police detective assists the NYPD with their investigation before more people are killed. Rating: 7.1/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: February 26th Via: Disney+ Plot: Satirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his 12-year old son. Rating: 7.6/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: February 26th Via: Cinema Plot: A retired special forces officer is trapped in a never ending time loop on the day of his death. Rating: 7.4/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: February 26th Via: Blu-ray Plot: A land baron in Hawaii tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident. Rating: 8.0/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: February 25th Via: Disney+ Plot: Aspiring songwriter Violet Sanford comes out of her shell after getting a job at a women-run NYC bar that teases its male patrons. Rating: 6.2/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: February 25th Via: Disney+ Plot: A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seabourn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker. Onboard the cruise liner, an LAPD officer works to prevent imminent disaster. Rating: 4.7/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: February 22nd Via: YouTube Movies Plot: A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust. Rating: 7.7/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: February 22nd Via: Netflix Plot: Unable to cover the prohibitive cost of his son's life-saving heart transplant, and with hospital bureaucrats unwilling to help, desperate father John Quincy Archibald takes an emergency room hostage. Rating: 8.4/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: February 21st Via: iTunes Store Plot: On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Rating: 5.9/10

Viewed: Season 3

Once upon a time, Daredevil was pretty much my favourite thing on television - for season 2, I started watching as soon as it dropped, and stayed up most of the night binging through it. But it took me two-and-a-half years to get to the third and final season. Why? Because life was too hectic when it first dropped on Netflix, and then the cancellation plus the end of Marvel Netflix pretty much made me lose interest and it was no longer a priority. But I finally circled back around, and I’m glad that I did because this season is actually excellent. Taking some narrative elements from the comic-book story Born Again, and finding Matt Murdoch where we left him at the end of The Defenders, this is a gritty, extremely compelling season of television which reminded me why I fell in love with Daredevil in the first place. I am getting kind of burned out on the thirteen-episode format, since there is still some filler here (the Karen episode drags) and I would prefer something brisker, but for the most part the show effectively justifies its length without the prolonged extraneous subplots which weighed down the second season of The Punisher. First things first, the returning cast remains excellent (Vincent D'Onofrio is the definitive live-action Kingpin and nobody will ever equal or top it), but it's the new cast that steal the spotlight - namely, Jay Ali as Ray Nadeem and Wilson Bethel as Dex. Ali in particular is a scene-stealer, nailing the draining requirements of his role with confidence, and he's such a magnetic presence on-screen. You feel his fear and his frustration, and you grow to truly care about him. Season 3 also delivers in the action department, and then some. The violence remains vehemently R-rated which is a huge plus, the fight choreography is excellent, and production values never disappoint. This is such a compelling season all the way through; I intended to watch this at my leisure, but became sucked in by the sixth or seventh episode. There's ample momentum, and the sense of hopelessness is incredible - the characters keep falling deeper and deeper into the hole dug by Kingpin. I could go on and on about all the strengths of this season, but rest assured this is quality viewing. Annoyingly, though, it ends with a tease for the future which will never be followed through. I think this will be the final word on Marvel Netflix for me... I don't plan to watch Iron Fist or the remaining seasons of Jessica Jones or Luke Cage.

First Viewing Viewing Date: February 20th Via: iTunes Store Plot: After having an ill-advised affair, a successful lawyer tries to end things with his mistress. However, she becomes obsessed with him and refuses to leave him or his family alone. Rating: 7.1/10