VOD film review: Happy-Go-Lucky

Heartwarming, funny and bursting with kindness. Sally Hawkins shines in Mike Leigh’s character-driven delight.Read More

Channel 4 TV review: Humans Episode 1

This contains mild spoilers.

“What if she isn’t pretty? Can we change her for another one?”

That’s the daughter of Laura (Katherine Parkinson), whose husband, Joe (Tom Goodman Hill), buys a new Synth to help around the house. They’re the … Read More

Channel 4 TV review: Ballot Monkeys (Episodes 1 and 2)

Politics has found itself face to face with the digital age this general election. Campaigns can be won or lost by an inappropriate Facebook post. Reputations can be ruined – or built – just by tweeting “Ed Balls”. It’s a … Read More

VOD film review: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

A bleakly comic parade of existence.Read More

VOD film review: Belle

Gugu Mbatha-Raw delivers an incredible performance in this remarkable, important period drama.Read More

4oD TV review: Coalition

Politicians, eh? Who trusts them? After all, half of them are barely human. The idea of watching Coalition, a 90-minute drama about a deal made between a group of them, is therefore hardly an easy sell.

It doesn’t help that … Read More

VOD film review: The Drop

Tom Hardy is intensely good in this in gripping, surprising, understated crime thriller.Read More

’71: Blisteringly good

Jack O’Connell is blisteringly good in this thrilling, shocking sprint through history.Read More

Fury: Intense, thrilling and terrifying

Thrilling and terrifying in equal measure, David Ayer’s intense actioner captures the rush and horror of war.Read More

VOD TV review: Cyberbully

“Of course I don’t think it’s ok. But it’s normal. It happens.”

That’s Casey in Cyberbully, Channel 4’s one-off drama about the perils of the Internet. The title alone puts in you mind of a cheesy cautionary tale, the kind … Read More