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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: What We Do in the Shadows (2015)
March 30, 2015 | VOD News
Taiki Waititi’s vampire comedy is moving, clever and mercilessly quick, but most of all, it’s bleeding funny.Read More
VOD film review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
March 28, 2015 | David Farnor
Mature, childish and thrillingly inventive, Scott Pilgrim is awesome, surprising no one.Read More
VOD film review: Wild Tales
March 27, 2015 | Anna Power
Scintillating and seething with rageful rebellion, this Argentine anthology is savagely funny.Read More
UK VOD TV recap: Arrow Season 3, Episode 16 (The Offer)
March 27, 2015 | Matthew Turner
Happily, the good people responsible for UK transmission dates decided not to follow suit on the mini-hiatus Arrow Season 3 took in the US, so we’re now only a week behind, instead of three weeks behind. That, in turn, has … Read More
Amazon Prime UK TV review: Outlander Episode 1
March 25, 2015 | VOD News
A man and a woman break into an abandoned castle. They run down into the basement. She perches on the table. He leans in to kiss her. She stops him – and pushes his head down towards her legs.
It’s … Read More
UK VOD TV review: The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 15 (Try)
March 24, 2015 | Neil Brazier
If ever The Walking Dead decided to ditch the zombies and focus on the living, Episode 15 is proof that they could do so admirably. Highly intense and brilliantly acted, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) appears to be letting out his … Read More
VOD film review: The King’s Speech
March 23, 2015 | Selina Pearson
Colin Firth shines in this endearing, amusing and articulate drama.Read More
Amazon UK TV review: Vikings Season 3, Episode 5
March 23, 2015 | David Farnor
Five episodes in and it’s hard to shake the sense that Season 3 of Vikings doesn’t really know where it’s going. Is it to England again to continue the uneasy truce with King Ecbert? Is it to France to pillage … Read More
UK VOD TV recap: Arrow Season 3, Episode 15 (Nanda Parbat)
March 20, 2015 | Matthew Turner
Not content with giving us one killer of a mid-season finale with The Climb, this week’s episode served up a second hum-dinger with an equally great cliff-hanger (albeit one that didn’t involve an actual cliff this time) before heading off … Read More
Amazon TV binge review: Bosch, Episodes 5 to 10
March 19, 2015 | Neil Brazier
After an interesting start to Amazon Studios’ detective drama, Bosch takes on a slower pace for the remainder of its first season, which sees Bosch (Titus Welliver) plagued by serial killer Raynard Waits (Jason Gedrick), who continues to perform the … Read More
