VOD film review: Let’s Be Evil

An augmented reality project goes horribly wrong in this low budget sci-fi that squanders its big ideas.Read More

UK TV recap: Arrow Season 5, Episode 1 (Legacy)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

Let’s be honest, the new season of Arrow has a lot of making up to do, after the crushing disappointment of the Season 4 finale. Don’t get us wrong – Season 4 as a whole was … Read More

VOD film review: After Love

A heated pressure-cooker of a drama.Read More

First look UK TV review: The Young Pope

“Ever since I was little I’ve learnt to confound people’s ideas of what’s going on in my head”, confides Lenny Belardo (Jude Law) some way into the first episode of The Young Pope, before adding, “I’m also intransigent, irritable, vindictive … Read More

UK TV review: Supergirl Season 2, Episode 1 (The Adventures Of Supergirl)

Season 2 gets off to a flying start, as Supergirl returns tighter, more confident and as charming as ever.Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Black Mirror Season 3, Episode 5 (Men Against Fire – spoilers)

Warning: This contains spoilers. For our spoiler-free review of Black Mirror Season 3, click here.

Black Mirror’s fifth new episode, penned by Brooker himself, spends 10 to 15 minutes creating an interesting but not unfamiliar world in which technology takes … Read More

VOD film review: Desierto

This pro-imigration anti-Western is viscerally exciting and pulsatingly political.Read More

UK TV review: The Walking Dead Season 7, Episode 1 (The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be)

This is a spoiler-free review. Read on at the bottom for spoilers in full bloody detail.

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When Season 6 of The Walking Dead ended, all our heroes were on their knees, being teased with death by a barb-wire-wrapped baseball … Read More

UK TV review: Westworld, Episode 3

Warning: This contains spoilers. Not caught up with Westworld? Read our spoiler-free review of Episode 1.

What makes us human? That’s the question that a lot of sci-fi essentially boils down to. What, exactly, does a soul consist of? Snips … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Black Mirror Season 3, Episode 4 (San Junipero – spoilers)

Warning: This contains spoilers. For our spoiler-free review of Black Mirror Season 3, click here.

One of the joys of watching Black Mirror is that you know, instinctively, that everything is not what it seems. It is a show that … Read More