Netflix UK TV review: Designated Survivor: Episode 18

Warning: This contains spoilers

After last episode’s surprise resurrection – nodded to in this episode’s title, Lazarus – Designated Survivor continues to raid the 24 book of TV cliches to drum up tension before its big finale. The problem? It … Read More

VOD film review: Eastern Promises

Eastern Promises may not be perfect, but its characters are full of deceitful intrigue. Read More

VOD film review: The Virgin Suicides

Sofia Coppola’s striking debut is an intoxicating, chilling lament of burgeoning adulthood and lost innocence.Read More

VOD film review: The Descent

One of the scariest horrors of the last 30 years, Neil Marshall’s descent into hellish darkness is terrifyingly simple – and simply terrifying.Read More

Catch up TV review: Little Boy Blue, The Durrells, Don’t Ask Me Ask Britain, Kevin Can Wait

What’s available on-demand on Freeview? Keep up-to-date with our weekly catch-up TV column, including reviews of shows on ITV Hub, new releases on All 4 and a guide to My5.

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Netflix UK TV review: Little Boy Blue

Sensitively written and powerfully performed, this is heart-wrenching viewing.Read More

Netflix UK film review: Casting JonBenet

This true crime documentary deconstructs the true crime trend to mesmerising effect.Read More

First look Netflix UK TV review: Las Chicas del Cable

It’s hard to remember a time when telephones were all attached to landlines, fixed, immobile and generally located within ear’s reach of your parents. It’s even harder to remember a time before telephones, when the idea of talking to someone … Read More

Interview: Maggie Civantos, Berta Vázquez and Najwa Nimri talk Locked Up Season 2

Tonight sees the return of Locked Up, a Spanish drama about an all-female prison. On the surface, it sounds like Orange Is the New Black, but Vis a Vis (as it’s known in its home country) has a colour all … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Designated Survivor: Episode 17

Warning: This contains spoilers

If in doubt, 24 has taught us two tricks to keep a TV thriller going: firstly, unexpectedly kill someone off, or secondly, unexpectedly bring someone back from the dead. Designated Survivor did the first just after … Read More