Netflix UK TV review: Scream Season 2, Episode 1 (I Know What You Did Last Summer)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

“We’re all final girls in Lakewood. Because we survived.”

That’s Emma at the start of Scream Season 2. Yes, MTV’s surprisingly good horror series, which spun off from Wes Craven’s movie franchise last year, is back … Read More

UK TV review: Preacher Season 1, Episode 2

This is a spoiler-free review.

Less explosive that the opening episode, Episode 2 of Preacher centres on setting a shady, intimidating stage for the unfolding of the fallout from Jesse’s encounter with true good and true evil, as well as … Read More

VOD film review: The Absent One

This highly competent crime drama has all the benefits of Scandinavian noir but without the need for binge-viewing.Read More

Catch up TV review: Jeremy Corbyn: The Outsider (Vice News)

“I am not a traditional party leader, I do things in a rather different way. Some people are slower at learning than others.”

Jeremy Corbyn: The Outsider. That’s the brand that has become associated with the Labour Party leader. The … Read More

UK TV review: Outlander: Season 2, Episode 9 (Je Suis Prest)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

“Je Suis Prest” reads the Fraser family motto. It’s a nice nod that the show embraces it for the title of Episode 9 of Season 2, as it tackles not just questions of families and loyalties, … Read More

UK TV recap: Legends of Tomorrow, Episode 14 (River of Time)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

After delivering one of the season’s best episodes with the massively entertaining Leviathan, Legends of Tomorrow drops the ball in spectacularly clumsy fashion – and you can practically feel the audience slump in disappointment. It’s entirely … Read More

UK TV recap: Arrow Season 4, Episode 23 (Schism)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

Considering how much fun last week’s episode was, it’s a crushing disappointment that Arrow Season 4 ends as weakly as it does. In addition to flat-out bungling its most important moments, the finale is riddled with … Read More

VOD film review: A Perfect Getaway

This deceptively smart B-movie is as cheap and compelling as they come.Read More

VOD film review: Gone Baby Gone

Ben Affleck’s directorial debut is a thoughtful, gripping crime melodrama.Read More

Netflix UK film review: Holding the Man

Epic, intimate, universal. This romance deserves to be a crowd-pleaser.Read More