Amazon Prime Video UK TV review: Vikings Season 4, Episode 1 (A Good Treason)

As Vikings returns this Friday for a fourth season, it joins Fast & Furious as one of the most unlikely things to become a successful franchise. But three years after its debut, the History channel’s excursion into scripted television shows … Read More

UK TV review: Agent Carter: Season 2, Episode 4

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

At risk of repeating myself, the upswing of Agent Carter’s expanded episode order for Season 2 has resulted in a more detailed, if more leisurely story, … Read More

YouTube Red film review: Lazer Team

We continue our look at YouTube Red’s first wave of originals with Lazer Team, the feature-length outing from Rooster Teeth.

It’s hard to define what Lazer Team is as a piece of entertainment, is it an indie movie with something … Read More

YouTube Red TV review: Scare PewDiePie

Every Wednesday, we take a look at a web series. This week, it’s YouTube Red original Scare PewDiePie.

For over 10 years, YouTube has existed quite happily on the Internet, streaming videos to any old – or, more specifically, young … Read More

First look Netflix UK TV review: Limitless

Of all the films to merit a TV spin-off, Limitless didn’t seem like the most obvious choice. It was a box office success, with $160 million worldwide – all the more impressive given its reportedly modest budget of $27 million … Read More

VOD film review: Crimson Peak

Everyone will find something to enjoy in this Gothic horror’s richly painted gorgeousness.Read More

Amazon Prime Video UK TV review: The New Yorker Presents

Ask anyone on the streets of the UK and the number of people who say they read The New Yorker is going to be minimal at best. Amazon’s decision to turn the publication into video form, then, is a bizarre … Read More

Netflix UK review: Better Call Saul Season 2, Episode 1

“People tell me how they see me. It’s not as a lawyer.”

It’s been a whole year since we last caught up with Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), the scheming con man who will one day become Saul Goodman, the scheming … Read More

UK TV review: The X-Files Season 10 (2016), Episode 2 (The Founder’s Mutation)

Warning: This contains mild spoilers.

“He didn’t answer my question,” observes Mulder in Episode 2 of The X-Files, after quizzing a sinister-looking man in a hospital. It’s the same thing that many people may be saying to themselves this week, … Read More

Louis C.K.’s Horace and Pete review: Episode 3

Warning: This contains spoilers.

In our review of Episode 2 of Horace and Pete, we zeroed in on one particular idea that the episode seemed to be focused on: the fact that Horace (Louis C.K.) is a good listener. It’s … Read More