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VOD film review: Sicario 2: Soldado
November 25, 2018 | David FarnorThis hard-hitting sequel makes up for what it lacks in substance with more intense action.Read More
Why we’re secretly watching this year’s I’m a Celebrity…
November 25, 2018 | David FarnorNoel Edmunds and John Barrowman have combined to make this year’s celebrity contest an unexpectedly entertaining spectacle.Read More
Netflix UK film review: First Reformed
November 25, 2018 | David FarnorEthan Hawke is remarkable in Paul Schrader’s blistering, challenging study of doubt, guilt, despair and purpose.Read More
Amazon UK TV review: The Romanoffs Episode 5 and 6 (Bright and High Circle, Panorama)
November 25, 2018 | David FarnorThe Romanoffs hits a low point with an uneven double-bill of misjudged writing.Read More
VOD film review: Don’t Look Now
November 25, 2018 | David FarnorNicolas Roeg’s haunting study of grief is a disorienting, chilling, mysterious masterpiece.Read More
Netflix UK TV review: Derren Brown: Sacrifice
November 24, 2018 | David FarnorDerren Brown is at its most political in this thoughtful, hopefully exploration of human compassion.Read More
Netflix to play Hymn of Death to global audience
November 24, 2018 | David FarnorNetflix has snapped up the rights to Korean series Hymn of Death.
The tragic love story follows Korea’s first soprano and her genius playwright boyfriend. Adored by a wide audience, the story has been recreated in various formats including films, … Read More
Trailer: Netflix investigates Death by Magic
November 24, 2018 | David FarnorMagic is a mainstay of TV, always finding its way back to our screens for bursts of entertainment, surprise or shock. Years on from David Blaine’s stunts or BBC One’s Dynamo: Magician Impossible, BBC Three has given us magic with … Read More
Trailer: Netflix short celebrates immigration in Out of Many, One
November 24, 2018 | David Farnor“I hereby declare on oath I will support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” That’s the sound of someone swearing the oath of citizenship in the USA, a country made up of people coming to America … Read More
The Weekly MUBI Digest | 24th November 2018
November 24, 2018 | David FarnorWith Hirokazu Koreeda’s Shoplifters now in cinemas, MUBI Go (which offers a cinema ticket every week to its subscribers) is giving you the chance to see it free at participating cinemas. Before or after you go, there’s also the chance … Read More