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.
UK VOD TV recap: Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 1
April 13, 2015 | David FarnorWarning: This contains spoilers. For a spoiler-free review of Episode 1, click here.
Game of Thrones has, in the past two seasons, dealt out more trauma to audiences than most other TV shows combined. How, then, can Season 5 top … Read More
VOD film review: Jauja
April 13, 2015 | David FarnorViggo Mortensen is superb in this absorbing, hazy daydream of a Western.Read More
Amazon UK TV review: Vikings Season 3, Episode 8 (To the Gates!)
April 12, 2015 | David FarnorVikings found itself up the proverbial river last week, as it tried to introduce Paris and all its political tensions to us, while still dragging us back to England to follow the blood-thirsty Brits. The resulting mesh of villains we … Read More
Netflix UK film review: Dior and I
April 12, 2015 | David FarnorDirector: Frédéric Tcheng Cast: Raf Simons Certificate: U Watch Dior and I online in the UK: Netflix UK / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / BFI Player / TalkTalk TV / Curzon Home Cinema / Google Play / iTunes/ Volta / Dogwoof … Read More
UK VOD TV review: Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 1 (spoiler-free)
April 12, 2015 | David FarnorGame of Thrones has, in the past two seasons, dealt out more trauma to audiences than most other TV shows combined. How, then, can Season 5 top what’s gone before? The answer, of course, is that it can’t, but the … Read More
Netflix TV binge review: Marvel’s Daredevil Season 1 (Episodes 6 – 8)
April 12, 2015 | Philip W BaylesIf you haven’t seen Episodes 1 to 5 of Marvel’s Daredevil on Netflix, this will contain spoilers.
“I’d like to speak to the man in the mask, please.”
After five episodes of agonised waiting, Matt finally gets his first conversation … Read More
Amazon Prime UK TV review: Outlander Episode 9
April 11, 2015 | David FarnorWarning: This contains minor spoilers.
If the first half of Outlander Season 1 was a celebration of a woman’s independent identity, it concluded with a bit of a dilemma: the rescuing of Claire from the clutches of Black Jack Randall. … Read More
Sky VOD TV review: Fortitude Episode 11 (finale)
April 11, 2015 | David FarnorWarning: If you haven’t watched the previous episodes of Fortitude, this will contain spoilers.
“A loving God could not have created something so wicked.”
That’s what Darwin apparently wrote about the wasps that, it turns out, have been the force … Read More
ITV review: Thunderbirds Are Go! (Episodes 1 to 3)
April 11, 2015 | David FarnorYou can tell a lot about a TV show from its title. Thunderbirds Are Go! – with the emphasis firmly on that exclamation mark – takes the Gerry Anderson puppets of old and puts them in motion. And then some. … Read More
UK VOD TV recap: Arrow Season 3, Episode 18 (Public Enemy)
April 10, 2015 | Matthew TurnerYou have to hand it to Arrow. Once again, they have pulled off an episode that could easily have been the season finale – except, once again, it isn’t, and they still have five episodes left to go. All of … Read More