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Reviews and recommendations of what films and TV shows are worth watching online on Amazon Prime Instant Video – and what to avoid.
VOD film review: Suburra
June 24, 2016 | David FarnorA gripping crime thriller with style to spare.Read More
VOD film review: Remainder
June 21, 2016 | Anton BitelThis mystery of memory and madness is one to watch over and over again.Read More
UK TV review: Preacher Season 1, Episode 4 (Monster Swamp)
June 21, 2016 | Chris Bryant“You know the rules, I don’t talk about how my meat gets made and you don’t talk about your magic man in the sky.”
Odin Quincannon’s words to Jesse might sound tough in Episode 4 of Preacher, but it seems … Read More
UK TV review: Outlander: Season 2, Episode 11 (Vengeance Is Mine)
June 20, 2016 | David FarnorWarning: This contains spoilers.
It’s not easy being the head of the Jacobite Rebellion. Firstly, your nickname is Bonnie. Secondly, you look and sound like a petulant schoolboy. And thirdly, nobody in your war cabinet can agree on what the … Read More
Why you should be watching UnREAL on Amazon Prime Video
June 19, 2016 | Helen ArcherThere is something very fitting about the fact that it was Lifetime which picked up the darkly brilliant drama UnREAL last year. The natural home of the kind of output popular with predominately female viewers – from TV movies that … Read More
Amazon pilot reviews: The Interestings, The Last Tycoon, Little Big Awesome and more
June 18, 2016 | David FarnorAmazon’s summer 2016 pilot season is here, with two adult dramas and six kids’ series available for anyone (including non-Amazon Prime Video subscribers) to stream for free. Audience feedback is then used to choose which pilots get commissioned to become … Read More
VOD film review: Tale of Tales
June 17, 2016 | David FarnorThis dark trio of fairy tales is unabashedly bonkers and enchantingly unique.Read More
UK TV review: Outlander: Season 2, Episode 10
June 13, 2016 | David FarnorWarning: This contains spoilers.
As Outlander nears the end of its second season, it has to start delivering on all of those promises it made at the start – and then some. Unlike most programmes, Ron D. Moore’s take on … Read More
UK TV review: Preacher Season 1, Episode 3
June 13, 2016 | Chris BryantAMC’s Preacher continues weaving mysteries among the supernatural shenanigans, answering some of the bigger questions and laying the groundwork for some new ones. Including the discovery that Cassidy likes Justin Bieber. (That question may never be answered, we suspect.)
It … Read More
VOD film review: Paranormal Activity
June 8, 2016 | David FarnorWhen things don’t happen, it’s brilliantly disturbing. When they do, it’s a slight disappointment.
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