Netflix UK short film review: Resurface

Netflix’s surfing short is a moving, beautiful snapshot of hope.Read More

Strong Island: “An entire family can have their experience affirmed”

This weekend sees the release of Strong Island, a powerful, personal documentary that began a quarter of a century ago, when William Ford Jr. was killed by a white mechanic in New York. Although William was unarmed, he became the … Read More

VOD film review: Colossal

Absurdly big and movingly small, this unusual monster movie is a funny, disturbing and surprising study of toxic behaviour.Read More

Netflix UK film review: First They Killed My Father

Angelina Jolie’s moving, harrowing portrait of life under the Khmer Rouge regime announces her as a director of real heart and purpose.Read More

VOD film review: The Lookout

This gripping, low-key thriller, featuring early turns from Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode, remains one to watch.Read More

Netflix UK film review: Strong Island

A powerful deconstruction of race and grief, this bracingly honest documentary will stay with you for days.Read More

VOD film review: Silence

This scorchingly personal epic is a quietly towering study of faith and doubt.Read More

Why Channel 4’s Great British Bake Off might be better than the original

And so, less than a year since the scandalous poaching of a national treasure, Channel 4’s remix of The Great British Bake Off has finally been spooned on to our plates. And the result is – whisper it – possibly … Read More

UK TV review: Quacks Season 1

Horrible Histories meets The Knick in BBC Two’s enjoyably silly Victorian medical sitcom.Read More

UK TV review: Halt and Catch Fire Season 4, Episode 4

Warning: This contains spoilers. Not see Episode 3? Read our spoiler-free review of Halt and Catch Fire Season 4’s opening episodes here.

“When you go out that door, I want to see you head in the same damn direction.” That’s … Read More