Movies
Reviews of films available on Netflix UK, Amazon Prime and other video on-demand services.
VOD film review: In a Valley of Violence
November 27, 2017 | David FarnorTi West tackles the Western with entertaining, if uneven, results.Read More
VOD film review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
November 27, 2017 | Mark HarrisonLuc Besson’s vibrant, miscast space opera is very weird and not quite as wonderful.Read More
VOD film review: The Keeping Room
November 26, 2017 | David FarnorThis thrilling tale of female survival at the end of the Civil War is a gripping revision of the Western genre.Read More
VOD film review: Brakes
November 25, 2017 | David FarnorAn excellent cast brings a dark honesty to this low-budget anti-rom-com.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key (1972)
November 24, 2017 | Anton BitelSergio Martino’s gothic giallo oddity is as much a whatisit as a whodunnit.Read More
VOD film review: Beach Rats
November 24, 2017 | Matthew TurnerBritish actor Harris Dickinson makes a terrific debut in this sensitive study of sexual exploration and denial.Read More
VOD film review: The Hitman’s Bodyguard
November 22, 2017 | David FarnorThe chemistry between Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson elevates this familiar action comedy.Read More
VOD film review: The Big Sick
November 19, 2017 | Luke ChannellFunny, moving and sharply written, The Big Sick is a film you’ll never get tired of.Read More
Superhero Sundays: Justice League – The New Frontier (2008)
November 19, 2017 | Matthew TurnerSuperman, Batman and Wonder Woman meet Green Lantern, The Flash and Martian Manhunter in this successful, entertaining adaptation of Darwyn Cooke’s comics.Read More
VOD film review: Good Time
November 18, 2017 | David FarnorRobert Pattinson is magnetic in this gripping, visceral and thrillingly unpredictable ride.Read More