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.
Amazon Prime Video UK TV review: Arrow Season 2
September 23, 2014 | Matthew Turner
Warning: This includes minor spoilers.
“My name is Oliver Queen. After five years on a hellish island, I have come home with only one goal: to save my city. But to do so, I can’t be the killer I once … Read More
Sky TV review: Legends Episode 1 (starring Sean Bean)
September 21, 2014 | David Farnor
As the old saying goes, if it isn’t shouted at your hero by a strange man in the street, it’s not a dramatic plot twist.
Legends is one of those shows that has no shame in following conventions. Sean … Read More
TV review: Doctor Who Season 8, Episode 5 (Time Heist)
September 20, 2014 | Simon Kinnear
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
September 19, 2014 | David Farnor
A tightly strung thriller that doesn’t hit a wrong note.Read More
VOD film review: Maleficent
September 19, 2014 | Simon Kinnear
An excellent turn from Angelina Jolie cannot redeem this uneven revision of Sleeping Beauty.Read More
VOD film review: In the Loop
September 18, 2014 | David Farnor
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)
September 18, 2014 | David Farnor
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)
September 18, 2014 | David Farnor
Jason Momoa is wonderfully cast in this disappointingly two-dimensional Conan outing.Read More
TV review: The Strain Episode 1 (Night Zero)
September 17, 2014 | David Farnor
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)
September 17, 2014 | Neil Brazier
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
