Posts By David Farnor
Netflix UK film review: Passengers
September 17, 2017 | David Farnor
Even Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence can’t save this dramatically inert, woefully misjudged sci-fi.Read More
Netflix UK short film review: Resurface
September 17, 2017 | David Farnor
Netflix’s surfing short is a moving, beautiful snapshot of hope.Read More
Strong Island: “An entire family can have their experience affirmed”
September 17, 2017 | David Farnor
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
September 16, 2017 | David Farnor
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
September 16, 2017 | David Farnor
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
September 16, 2017 | David Farnor
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
September 14, 2017 | David Farnor
A powerful deconstruction of race and grief, this bracingly honest documentary will stay with you for days.Read More
VOD film review: Silence
September 12, 2017 | David Farnor
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
September 12, 2017 | David Farnor
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
September 12, 2017 | David Farnor
Horrible Histories meets The Knick in BBC Two’s enjoyably silly Victorian medical sitcom.Read More
