UK TV recap: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 1, Episode 4 (White Knights)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

After spending the first three episodes in 1975, the Legends of Tomorrow gang (hereafter known as the Legends) finally fire up the Waverider’s time-travel circuits and head to Soviet Russia in 1986, for the first instalment … Read More

VOD film review: Brave

This delicately complex study of a mother and daughter is an epic adventure that dares to think small.Read More

VOD film review: Iona

Director: Scott Graham Cast: Ruth Negga, Tom Brooke, Michelle Duncan, Ben Gallagher, Sorcha Groundsell Certificate: 15 Watch Iona online in the UK: Sky Cinema / NOW / BFI Player / Curzon Home Cinema / TalkTalk TV / Sky Store / … Read More

UK TV review: Agent Carter: Season 2, Episode 9 (A Little Song and Dance)

This is a spoiler-free review. Read on at the bottom for additional, spoilery analysis.

OK, who had “Busby Berkeley musical number” in the Agent Carter sweepstakes? However you expected the show would follow last week’s drastic cliffhanger, you probably wouldn’t … Read More

VOD film review: The Good Dinosaur

Dazzling scenery isn’t enough to elevate a lukewarm entry in Pixar’s canon.Read More

VOD film review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

Mockingjay Part 2 has all the emotion of the ending and none of the anti-climax.Read More

UK TV recap: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 1, Episode 3 (Blood Ties)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

With the heavy lifting of the two-part pilot out of the way, Legends of Tomorrow is free to explore various character dynamics this week, trying out a trio of different combinations in an episode that doesn’t … Read More

UK TV review: Agent Carter: Season 2, Episode 8 (The Edge of Mystery)

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The slightly extended second season of Agent Carter accelerates towards its end in this pivotal instalment, as the usually unified ensemble of good guys have started … Read More

UK TV recap: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 1, Episode 2

Warning: This contains spoilers.

Presumably, there was a lot of discussion, both on The CW in the US and Sky in the UK, about whether to air both episodes of the Legend pilot back to back. Ultimately, it was probably … Read More

UK TV review: Agent Carter: Season 2, Episode 7 (Monsters)

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The villains rally in this week’s episode of Agent Carter, as Dottie Underwood is in the clutches of Whitney Frost, and Vernon Masters turns the screws … Read More