VOD film review: Final Girl

Director: Tyler Shields Cast: Abigail Breslin, Wes Bentley, Alexander Ludwig, Cameron Bright, Logan Huffman, Reece Thompson Watch Final Girl online in the UK: Arrow UK / Apple TV (iTunes) / TalkTalk TV / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Google Play

Former child … Read More

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

Already seen Episode 8? Read on at the bottom for spoilers.

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

Already seen Episode 11? Read on at the bottom for spoilers.

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

Already seen Episode 10? Read on at the bottom for spoilers.

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