Movies
Reviews of films available on Netflix UK, Amazon Prime and other video on-demand services.
VOD film review: Crimson Tide
October 10, 2021 | David Farnor
Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman are excellent polar opposites in Tony Scott’s nail-biting submarine thriller.Read More
VOD film review: Queen of Glory
October 10, 2021 | David Farnor
Nana Mensah’s charming directorial debut is a beautifully observed tale of identity and loss.Read More
VOD film review: The Hunt for Red October
October 9, 2021 | David Farnor
Sean Connery is on charismatic form in this entertaining thriller about a submarine gone rogue.Read More
No Sudden Movie review: A slick, serious thriller
October 9, 2021 | David Farnor
Steven Soderbergh’s twisting period crime flick is a slick but serious thriller.Read More
UK TV review: Help (2021)
October 9, 2021 | David Farnor
Stephen Graham and Jodie Comer are on powerful form in Jack Thorne’s hugely moving drama about a care home at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read More
VOD film review: Jane Eyre (2011)
October 7, 2021 | David Farnor
Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender are a perfect match in Cary Fukunaga’s atmospheric adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s gothic romance.Read More
VOD film review: Road to Perdition
October 4, 2021 | David Farnor
Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig and Paul Newman are sublime in Sam Mendes’ brooding yet beautiful moral tale of fathers and sons.Read More
VOD film review: Next Door (2021)
October 4, 2021 | David Farnor
Daniel Brühl stars and directs in this playful, spiky two-hander.Read More
VOD film review: Bad Candy
October 4, 2021 | Anton Bitel
In Scott B Hansen & Desiree Connell’s hilarious Halloween anthology, two DJs conjure a paradoxical world of small-town myth that bites back.Read More
VOD film review: Freshman Year
October 3, 2021 | David Farnor
University expectations are sharply skewered in this uneven but promising debut.Read More
