VOD film review: Force Majeure

A superbly thought-out black comedy that dares to touch every nerve.Read More

UK VOD TV review: The Flash Episode 17

While The Flash rewound the tape in its previous episode, Tricksters returns the show to its default fast forward mode, and it’s an hour that showcases much of what The Flash has become very good at – specifically, great action, … Read More

UK VOD TV recap: Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 1

Warning: 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

Viggo 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!)

Vikings 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

Director: 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)

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 what’s gone before? The answer, of course, is that it can’t, but the … Read More

UK TV review: Marvel’s Daredevil: Season 1, Episodes 6 – 8

Spins a web of intrigue that would put most other dramas to shame.Read More

Amazon Prime UK TV review: Outlander Episode 9

Warning: 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)

Warning: 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