Reviews
Reviews of movies and TV shows available to watch online on Netflix UK, Amazon Prime Instant Video, NOW TV, BBC iPlayer, iTunes, BFI Player and more.
VOD film review: The BFG (2016)
November 26, 2016 | David Farnor
A galumphing warm hug of a film, The BFG completely captures the wide-eyed wonder of childhood.Read More
VOD film review: The Revenant
November 26, 2016 | David Farnor
An escalating feat of jaw-dropping survival. For better and for worse, The Revenant is the greatest video game movie ever made.Read More
BBC Three TV review: Class Episode 7 (The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did)
November 26, 2016 | Mark Harrison
Miss Quill takes centre stage in the most vivid and ambitious episode of Class to date.Read More
VOD film review: The Wailing
November 25, 2016 | Josh Slater-Williams
Furiously weird and unsettlingly unpredictable, this South Korean horror is a wail of a time.Read More
Netflix UK TV review: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (spoiler-free)
November 25, 2016 | Helen Archer
Brimming with wit and warm nostalgia, Netflix’s Gilmore Girls reunion is the ultimate remedy for 2016.Read More
UK TV recap: Legends of Tomorrow Season 2, Episode 4
November 25, 2016 | Matthew Turner
Warning: This is a recap and contains spoilers, so do not read this until you have watched the episode. For information on how to watch it, click here.
The new season of Legends of Tomorrow seems to be firmly establishing … Read More
Amazon UK TV review: The Grand Tour Episode 2
November 25, 2016 | David Farnor
After racing out of the blocks in pole position with its debut outing, Episode 2 of Amazon’s The Grand Tour faces a trickier task than comparing itself with Top Gear: living up to its own high standards.
The second instalment … Read More
UK TV recap: Arrow Season 5, Episode 5
November 25, 2016 | Matthew Turner
Warning: This contains spoilers.
It surely can’t be just a coincidence that Episode 5 of this season features a guest appearance from a D.C. Comics character off a cancelled TV show (in this case The Human Target), when Episode 5 … Read More
UK TV review: Westworld Episode 8
November 24, 2016 | David Farnor
Warning: This contains spoilers. Not caught up with Westworld? Read our spoiler-free review of Episode 1.
“I would’ve thought they’d retired you.” Those six words are perhaps the most revealing thing in Episode 8 of Westworld, as HBO’s sci-fi hurtles … Read More
UK TV review: Humans Season 2, Episode 4
November 24, 2016 | David Farnor
Warning: This contains spoilers.
Closer to humans than ever before. That was the tagline used by Channel 4 to promote its sci-fi series – a phrase that carries a veiled threat, not just in terms of its synths’ similarity to … Read More
