TV review: Doctor Who Season 8, Episode 5 (Time Heist)

It is one of the more amusing ironies of Doctor Who, a series about time travel, that it can hardly ever succeed in making a decent story with ‘Time’ in the title. Check out the official Doctor Who Magazine poll … Read More

VOD film review: Grand Piano

A tightly strung thriller that doesn’t hit a wrong note.Read More

VOD film review: Maleficent

An excellent turn from Angelina Jolie cannot redeem this uneven revision of Sleeping Beauty.Read More

VOD film review: In the Loop

A quick-fire assault on your funny bone, In the Loop is a stroke of British genius. Profane, profound and permanently relevant.Read More

First look UK TV review: Tyrant (Episode 1)

All the pieces seem in place for Tyrant to grow into a serious political drama, but that is mostly because Episode 1 spends the entire hour laboriously setting them up.

The show is the brainchild of Prisoners of War creator … Read More

VOD film review: Conan the Barbarian (2011)

Jason Momoa is wonderfully cast in this disappointingly two-dimensional Conan outing.Read More

TV review: The Strain Episode 1 (Night Zero)

Warning: This contains very minor spoilers.

Vampires are young, sexy and cool. Everyone knows this. Everyone except Guillermo del Toro. Thank goodness, then, that he is the one behind The Strain, the latest fanged creation to swoop onto our screens. … Read More

TV review: Boardwalk Empire Season 5, Episode 1 (Golden Days for Boys and Girls)

The Boardwalk is back for its final season, a reduced eight-part run that proclaims “all empires must fall”. In this opening episode, all empires have left Atlantic City behind. Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) is in Havana with Sally Wheet (Patricia … Read More

VOD film review: Only Lovers Left Alive

Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton ooze cool in Jim Jarmusch’s entrancing vampire stoner comedy-horror.Read More

Digital Theatre review: Ghosts

Richard Eyre’s direction makes sure Ibsen’s gripping drama is both spooky and haunting.

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