VOD film review: Blue Ruin

Director: Jeremy Saulnier Cast: Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves, Kevin Kolack, Eve Plumb Certificate: 15

If you’ve been looking for something to fill the gap since Breaking Bad came to an end, you could do worse than to check … Read More

Amazon TV review: Ripper Street Season 3, Episode 8 (finale)

Warning: If you haven’t seen any of Season 3, this will contain spoilers.

“I’m your father. I made you.”

And so, here we are: the end of the road for Ripper Street Season 3 – and, judging by Episode 8’s … Read More

VOD TV recap: Arrow Season 3, Episode 9 (The Climb – mid-season finale)

Well, that was one HELL of a mid-season finale. Top that, any other show on television right now. That’s right, you can’t.

After all the complaints about Arrow’s third season lacking momentum and having no clear sense of direction (dragging … Read More

VOD film review: Due Date

Two unlikeable leads travel across America in this disappointingly average comedy.Read More

VOD film review: Boyhood

Director: Richard Linklater Cast: Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette Certificate: 15 Watch Boyhood online in the UK: Amazon Prime / TalkTalk TV / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Apple TV (iTunes) / Rakuten TV / Google Play

My nephew has … Read More

First look Amazon Prime TV review: Mozart in the Jungle

Gael Garcia Bernal plays a sexy conductor in Amazon’s new original TV series, Mozart in the Jungle. If that sentence doesn’t make the show stand out from the crowd, the subject matter certainly will: the backstage life of the New … Read More

Netflix UK film review: Unknown

You’ll enjoy Liam Neeson punching people almost as much as he does in this daft but fun conspiracy thriller.Read More

Amazon TV review: Ripper Street Season 3, Episode 7

New episodes of Ripper Street Season 3 are added exclusively to Amazon Prime Instant Video every Friday.

Warning: If you haven’t seen any of Season 3, this will contain spoilers.

VOD film review: The Constant Gardener

Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz are superb in this stylish and compelling tale of corruption and loss.Read More

UK VOD TV review: Sons of Anarchy Finale Ride, Episode 13 (Papa’s Goods)

Sons of Anarchy’s final episode is about fate, good and evil, the big picture and legacy. Big, powerful themes, but that’s really the only way to go out.

Kurt Sutter (who collects the writer and director credits for Papa’s Goods) … Read More