UK TV review: Fear the Walking Dead, Episode 1 (spoiler-free)

AMC’s spin-off series feels surprisingly unique without losing the franchise’s familiar element of fear.Read More

UK VOD TV review: Agent Carter, Season 1, Episode 8

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The stakes are suitably high at the start of Valediction, the Season 1 finale of Agent Carter. Following on from last week’s massacre at the cinema, the SSR has … Read More

VOD film review: 12 Angry Men

In the world of cinema, one man cannot make a masterpiece. Even Sidney Lumet, a film-maker spoken of in the kind of revered tones used for that most loved of modern auteurs Christopher Nolan, had a team of people around … Read More

VOD film review: 45 Years

Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay are superb in Andrew Haigh’s haunting study of relationships and memory.Read More

UK TV review: Hannibal Season 3, Episode 11

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As the light dims on this series (we’ve only got till lucky number 13), every episode begins to grow dimmer, shot through with darkness. Episode 11 is both physically … Read More

Amazon Prime Video TV review: Catastrophe Season 1

Catastrophe is not the most reassuring title for a romantic comedy. But Channel 4’s show, so good that it was snapped up earlier this year by Amazon Prime to distribute in the US as an “Original”, isn’t a catastrophe in … Read More

UK TV Review: Agent Carter Season 1, Episode 7

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All seems lost for Agent Carter this week. She is under arrest and her fellow agents present her with a wall of evidence of her secret doings since the … Read More

VOD film review: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Andrew Dominik’s visually stunning study of myth, fame and violence is a slow, assured, brilliantly acted Western.Read More

UK TV review: Hannibal Season 3, Episode 10

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When a character calling himself “The Great Red Dragon” appears on the scene to bump the Wendigo off the top spot in Monster of the Week polls, there’s definitely … Read More

UK TV Review: Agent Carter Season 1, Episode 6

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Back on home turf after last week’s sojourn to Belarus, A Sin To Err gets the endgame of Agent Carter Season 1 back on track in a big, bad way. The story … Read More