Top 10 films and movies on BBC iPlayer (Tuesday 23rd December)

With Christmas finally upon us, people across the UK will be sitting down to watch… something on the telly. Not sure where to start? We round up this week’s top 10 new TV shows and movies on BBC iPlayer.

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VOD film review: Due Date

Two unlikeable leads travel across America in this disappointingly average comedy.Read More

VOD film review: Boyhood

Director: Richard Linklater Cast: Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette Certificate: 15 Watch Boyhood online in the UK: Amazon Prime / TalkTalk TV / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Apple TV (iTunes) / Rakuten TV / Google Play

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First look Amazon Prime TV review: Mozart in the Jungle

Gael Garcia Bernal plays a sexy conductor in Amazon’s new original TV series, Mozart in the Jungle. If that sentence doesn’t make the show stand out from the crowd, the subject matter certainly will: the backstage life of the New … Read More

VOD film review: The Keeper of Lost Causes

A Scandi crime franchise based on impressively economic storytelling? More please.Read More

UK TV review: Adventure Time (Season 1 and Season 2)

To get a good sense of precisely why Adventure Time, a Cartoon Network show ostensibly aimed at kids, has gathered such a cult audience around the world, you only need to look at the way it ends its episodes.

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Netflix UK film review: Robin Hood (2010)

Large in scale and gritty in tone, Robin Hood is bloated, but watchable mulch.Read More

Netflix UK film review: Unknown

You’ll enjoy Liam Neeson punching people almost as much as he does in this daft but fun conspiracy thriller.Read More

Amazon TV review: Ripper Street Season 3, Episode 7

New episodes of Ripper Street Season 3 are added exclusively to Amazon Prime Instant Video every Friday.

Warning: If you haven’t seen any of Season 3, this will contain spoilers.

Netflix UK TV review: All Hail King Julien

Let’s not beat around the jungle. Madagascar has had something of an uneven track record across its various sequels (number four is in the works), but it has had one constant: King Julien, the wonderfully deluded leader of a tribe … Read More