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VOD film review: The Duke of Burgundy
February 18, 2015 | VOD News
Peter Strickland’s melancholic masochism makes for seductively good cinema.Read More
VOD film review: Snow in Paradise
February 17, 2015 | Chris Bryant
A well-crafted gangster drama, fantastically brought to life by leading man Frederick Schmidt.Read More
VOD film review: Still Life
February 6, 2015 | Matthew Turner
A moving, understated drama with a terrific central performance from Eddie Marsan.Read More
VOD film review: The Inbetweeners 2
December 5, 2014 | Mark Harrison
Ambitiously unambitious, this teen sequel still hasn’t grown up – and that’s exactly what it’s good at.Read More
UK TV review: Utopia Season 2
August 14, 2014 | David Farnor
This contains spoilers for Season 1 of Utopia and mild spoilers for Season 2. Not caught up? See our spoiler-free review here.
“If you really wanted to save the environment, you wouldn’t have had that child,” grins a sinister fellow … Read More
UK TV review: Utopia Season 2, Episode 2
July 15, 2014 | David Farnor
This contains spoilers for Season 1 of Utopia. Not caught up? See our spoiler-free review here.
“Hello, I’m Ross. I’ll be your new interrogator.”
That’s the way all characters seem to introduce themselves in Utopia; a violent threat under a … Read More
UK TV review: Utopia Season 2, Episode 1
July 14, 2014 | David Farnor
This contains spoilers for Season 1 of Utopia. Not caught up? See our spoiler-free review here.
How do you follow the first season of a conspiracy thriller?
That’s the problem facing Dennis Kelly. Season 1 decoded Utopia’s central puzzle: it … Read More
Utopia Season 1: Shockingly original TV
July 13, 2014 | David Farnor
This is a spoiler-free review of Utopia Season 1. Already seen it? Read on at the bottom for additional spoilery notes – or read our review of Season 2 here.
“It’s a graphic novel. It’s about a scientist who makes … Read More
Why Britain believes in Rev
May 3, 2014 | David Farnor
Last month, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said that he believed “we should be more confident about our status as a Christian country”. The comments, written in The Church Times ahead of Easter Sunday, prompted 50 notable public figures to … Read More
UK TV review: The Trip to Italy
April 27, 2014 | David Farnor
“Rob can’t read poetry in his own voice because he lacks conviction.”
That’s Steve Coogan, playing Steve Coogan, talking about Rob Brydon, playing Rob Brydon. It’s par for the course for The Trip to Italy, the follow-up to 2010’s The … Read More
