Netflix UK film review: Gambit (2012)

Director: Michael Hoffman Cast: Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci Watch Gambit online in the UK: Netflix UK

A woman gets up to answer the door in her hotel. She talks to the concierge, turns the lights off … Read More

Netflix review: Great Expectations (2012)

Director: Mike Newell Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Holliday Grainger, Helena Bonham Carter, Raiph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng, Robbie Coltrane Watch online: Netflix UK

Great Expectations will be removed from Netflix UK on 25th December 2014.

As each new version of Great Expectations … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 16 (Felina)

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Well, it’s over. Breaking Bad, the show no one wanted, then the show no one watched, now the show no one wants to finish, is finally over.

The story found … Read More

Netflix UK / VOD film review: Everybody Has a Plan

Director: Ana Piterbarg Cast: Viggo Mortensen Certificate: 15 Watch online: Netflix UK, blinkbox, iTunes, Film 4oD, Virgin Movies on Demand

You may disagree with the title of Ana Piterbarg’s film after watching it. It doesn’t so much have a plan … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Breaking Bad Season 5, Episode 15 (Granite State)

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Ozymandias was the king of Breaking Bad episodes. It was full of tension, upping the ante and getting to the point where Walter White’s last stand became a close inevitability. … Read More

VOD film review: The Rise (Wasteland)

A strong cast and dark, pressure-cooker writing make this British thriller an interesting ride.Read More

Netflix review: Orange Is the New Black

Piper Chapman is sentenced to 15 months in a federal prison in Litchfield, New York, for transporting drug money for her ex-lover in Orange Is the New Black.

Played brilliantly by Taylor Schilling as a quiet, respectful and well-educated … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 14 (Ozymandias)

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“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand / Half sunk, a shattered visage lies…” – Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Everything … Read More

Netflix UK film review: Abduction

This messily written actioner is not the Taylor Lautner vehicle you are looking for.Read More

Netflix UK film review: Burn After Reading

The Coen brothers’ short, sharp farce is 90 minutes of carefully crafted nonsense.Read More