Netflix UK film review: 009 Re: Cyborg

6

Enjoyably bonkers

Director: Kenji Kamiyama Cast: Mamoru Miyano, Hisao Egawa, Toshiko Fujita, Hiroshi Kamiya Certificate: 12 Watch 009 Re: Cyborg online in the UK: Netflix UK / iTunes / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Google Play

As the old saying goes, if you’re … Read More

Netflix review: Arrested Development Series 4 Episode 7

Seven episodes in and we finally get to spend some time with GOB Bluth in Colony Collapse, as Will Arnett’s crazy magician gets 35 minutes dedicated to what he’s been up to after being punched by George Michael for dating … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Breaking Bad Season 1

10

Drugs are good, mmmkay

Even though season one of AMC’s Breaking Bad is only seven episodes long, it quickly sets the tone for this darkly comedic drama set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bryan Cranston is Walter White, a 50-year old, under-achieving high school chemistry … Read More

Netflix UK film review: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

6

Rating

This slight, whimsical comedy-drama stays afloat thanks to some charming performances.Read More

Netflix UK review: Hemlock Grove (Season 1)

7

Gossip Girl with claws.

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”

– Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Bring it on, fur-ass!”

– Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

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Netflix review: Arrested Development Series 4 Episode 6

A second George Sr. episode, Double Crossers, follows on from the lackluster first instalment, as we see what George and brother Oscar began to do after their colony collapsed.

Paying off Herman Caine-type politician Herbert Love (Terry Crewes) to support … Read More

Netflix review: Arrested Development Series 4 Episode 5

Oh, Tobias.

The former analrapist is having A New Start in A New Start. He even has a licence plate to that effect, as we find out what he did when his wife began to pull away from him, his … Read More

Netflix review: Arrested Development Series 4 Episode 4

Michael’s second episode, titled The B. Team, jumps this season back to some of the light, silly Hollywood laugh-in stuff that we used to enjoy. It takes Michael to Imagine Entertainment, where the long-gestated Bluth family movie from the end … Read More

Netflix review: Arrested Development Series 4 Episode 3

Indian Takers puts us in the focus of Lindsey Bluth-Fünke, who, as devotees may remember, had her world shattered at the end of Season Three when she found out she was adopted and – worse – 40 years old.

Living with this … Read More

Netflix review: Arrested Development Series 4 Episode 2

Borderline Personalities brings in Arrested Development’s well known political slant to Season Four. No longer related to the Bush administration, Season Four opts for a look at US immigration and George Sr.’s wranglings to build a wall on the border … Read More