Movies
Reviews of films available on Netflix UK, Amazon Prime and other video on-demand services.
Time Travel Thursday: Iceman (2014)
December 5, 2019 | Matthew Turner
Three Ming Dynasty guards are frozen in time and wake up in present-day Hong Kong in this disappointing Donnie Yen action comedy.Read More
VOD film review: One Child Nation
December 4, 2019 | Matthew Turner
The awful history and devasting consequences of China’s population control are explored in this powerful, moving documentary.Read More
VOD film review: Spider-Man: Far From Home
December 2, 2019 | David Farnor
This witty, moving, visually stunning blockbuster is a promising glimpse of life after Avengers: Endgame.Read More
VOD film review: The Nightingale
December 1, 2019 | David Farnor
Jennifer Kent relives real horrors of history in this harrowing, brutal, powerful revenge drama.Read More
VOD film review: Ophelia
November 30, 2019 | Roxy Simons
Daisy Ridley is remarkable in this refreshing retelling of Hamlet. Read More
VOD film review: Mean Streets
November 28, 2019 | David Farnor
Martin Scorsese’s scuzzy, stylish gangster drama is a formative flick for the filmmaker and genre alike.Read More
VOD film review: GoodFellas
November 27, 2019 | David Farnor
Scorsese’s energetic dive into organised crime is a thrilling ride laced with brutally dark irony.Read More
VOD film review: The King of Comedy
November 26, 2019 | David Farnor
Robert De Niro is disturbingly cheerful in Scorsese’s twisted satire of celebrity culture.Read More
VOD film review: Taxi Driver
November 25, 2019 | David Farnor
Robert De Niro is remarkable in Martin Scorsese’s powerfully disturbing portrait of a lone man in New York.Read More
VOD film review: The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil
November 25, 2019 | Roxy Simons
This intense, action-packed flick hardly ever lets up.Read More
