VOD film review: Predestination

Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook star in this enthralling indie sci-fi that dares to think big.Read More

VOD TV review: Broadchurch Season 2, Episode 7

Warning: If you haven’t seen Season 1, this will contain spoilers.

Closing speeches are a gift for films and TV series. Dramatic. Rousing. Full of heightened emotion and theatrical rhetoric. Episode 7 of Broadchurch Season 2 impresses, then, by … Read More

VOD film review: The Judge

This Robert Downey Jr drama nibbles at greatness, but mostly just fishes for Oscars.Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Better Call Saul Episode 3 (Nacho)

This will contain spoilers for Better Call Saul Episode 1 and 2.

“Get out of here today or you’re a dead man.”

Episode 3 is when Better Call Saul gets serious – but, impressively, is also when it gets funnier. … Read More

VOD film review: The Duke of Burgundy

Peter Strickland’s melancholic masochism makes for seductively good cinema.Read More

UK VOD TV review: The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 10 (Them)

“We ain’t them,” says Daryl (Norman Reedus), disgusted that Rick (Andrew Lincoln) could compare them to the zombies that have plagued this new world. But watching Episode 10 of Season 5, you could be forgiven for blurring the lines.

The … Read More

VOD film review: Snow in Paradise

A well-crafted gangster drama, fantastically brought to life by leading man Frederick Schmidt.Read More

VOD film review: Finding Vivian Maier

Part detective story and part portrait of an artist, this documentary about the now-celebrated photographer is a fascinating watch.Read More

VOD film review: The Babadook

Jennifer Kent’s storybook horror brings a devastating sadness to the genre’s scares.Read More

UK VOD TV review: Girls Season 4, Episode 5

Ah, finally. There it is. Both the very worst day of Hannah’s life (that was on the cards since the end of Season 3) and, paradoxically, the very best episode of Girls so far this season. Thanks, Lena Dunham – … Read More