FrightFest VOD film review: Aquaslash

This self-consciously backward-looking slasher celebrates the intricacies and absurdities of a downward-sliding subgenre.Read More

First look UK TV review: Strike: Lethal White

Strike’s gripping, complex and character-filled fourth outing is the detective’s best yet.Read More

Catch up TV review: Derren Brown, Peter: The Human Cyborg, Celebs Go Virtual Dating

What’s available on-demand on Freeview? Keep up-to-date with our weekly catch-up TV column, including reviews of shows on ITV Hub, new releases on All 4 and a guide to My5.

(For BBC TV reviews and round-ups, see our weekly Best … Read More

BFI Player review: Mark Jenkin Short Films

This quartet of Mark Jenkin’s shorts is a striking snapshot of a playful, impassioned and pointedly political filmmaker.Read More

Netflix UK film review: Ava (2020)

Jessica Chastain’s game performance enlivens this textbook assassin thriller.Read More

FrightFest VOD film review: Don’t Click

G-Hey Kim’s confronting feature debut takes a punishingly reflexive look at torture porn and its audience.Read More

Why Netflix’s Fear City should be your next box set

The latest documentary series to hit Netflix is Fear City: New York vs the Mafia, a close look at five Mafia families that controlled the city of New York throughout the 1970s and and 1980s – and the FBI informants … Read More

FrightFest VOD film review: They’re Outside

A pop psychologist tries to coax a haunted agoraphobe outside in this creaky found footage flick.Read More

VOD film review: Speed

Jan de Bont’s non-stop thrill ride is a masterclass in economy.Read More

VOD film review: The Horror Crowd

Ruben Pla’s affectionate documentary shows LA’s horror community as a family of misfits.Read More