Posts By Matthew Turner
UK TV recap: Arrow, Season 6, Episode 8 (Crisis on Earth-X, Part 3)
December 9, 2017 | Matthew TurnerArrow’s crossover episode features a surprise return and some superb action, but sidelines its central team.Read More
UK TV recap: Arrow, Season 6, Episode 7 (Thanksgiving)
December 3, 2017 | Matthew TurnerOliver gets arrested and Cayden James scores a victory in an over-stuffed Thanksgiving episode.Read More
UK TV recap: Legends of Tomorrow, Season 3, Episode 7 (Welcome to the Jungle)
December 3, 2017 | Matthew TurnerWarning: This contains spoilers. For how to watch Legends of Tomorrow, click here.
Last episode of Legends of Tomorrow ended with Damien Darhk his daughter escaping after Nora’s life-force-draining attack (a Darhk family speciality) left Sara in a coma. As … Read More
VOD film review: Happy End
December 1, 2017 | Matthew TurnerMichael Haneke revisits all his familiar themes in this darkly satirical, Calais-set drama about a dysfunctional bourgeois family. Read More
VOD film review: Most Beautiful Island
December 1, 2017 | Matthew TurnerSpanish actor-turned-filmmaker Ana Asensio writes, directs and stars in this creepy suspense thriller about the immigrant experience.Read More
UK TV recap: Legends of Tomorrow, Season 3, Episode 6 (Helen Hunt)
November 26, 2017 | Matthew TurnerHurray for Hollywood, Helen of Troy and Hedy Lamarr in this hilarious, fun-packed episode.Read More
UK TV recap: Arrow, Season 6, Episode 6 (Promises Kept)
November 25, 2017 | Matthew TurnerDiggle deals with his drug problem and the Slade Wilson two-parter concludes in a disappointingly average episode.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
Interview: Harris Dickinson talks Beach Rats
November 22, 2017 | Matthew TurnerEliza Hittman’s Sundance award winning Beach Rats arrives in the UK this weekend. The raw, exquisitely crafted, uncompromising drama stars British newcomer Harris Dickinson as the smouldering intense Frankie, a troubled teen cogitating his sexual identity, in what has become … 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