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.
Why The Honourable Woman should be your next box set
July 27, 2014 | Jo Bromilow
It seems fair to call The Honourable Woman the BBC’s answer to Homeland, because there are several crucial elements that are very similar. Identikit opening credit montage? Check. A complex female lead? Check – Maggie Gyllenhaal plays the decorated Baroness … Read More
VOD film review: The Informant!
July 27, 2014 | David Farnor
Director: Steven Soderbergh Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Melanie Lynskey Certificate: 15 Watch The Informant! online in the UK: Amazon Prime / Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / TalkTalk TV / Google Play
“Polar bears cover their noses … Read More
UK TV review: Hannibal Season 2, Episode 12
July 26, 2014 | Jo Bromilow
With just minutes left until we reach the reckoning of Season 2, Hannibal continues with the final few strides of the great chase. But what has been the objective of that chase? For Will to catch Hannibal? For Hannibal to … Read More
Netflix UK film review: Ted
July 26, 2014 | David Farnor
Seth MacFarlane’s underwhelming first live-action movie mistakes celebrity cameos for jokes.Read More
Netflix UK film review: Need for Speed
July 24, 2014 | David Farnor
This underwhelming car chase flick would make a good computer game. As a film, it’s disappointingly dull.Read More
VOD film review: Joe
July 23, 2014 | David Farnor
Director: David Gordon Green Cast: Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, Gary Poulter Certificate: 15
Click here to read our interview with Joe’s director, David Gordon Green.
“These trees are weak. Nobody wants them.”
That’s Joe (Cage) to Gary (Sheridan), whom he … Read More
VOD film review: The LEGO Movie
July 22, 2014 | David Farnor
Everything really is awesome in this hilarious, subversive and endlessly inventive animation.Read More
VOD film review: We Are the Best!
July 22, 2014 | David Farnor
This energetic celebration of identity and rebellion will make you want to start a punk band.Read More
VOD film review: I Am Divine
July 21, 2014 | Simon Kinnear
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz Cast: Divine, John Waters Certificate: 15
Initially, it seems like a missed opportunity for an artist as extraordinary as Divine to get a documentary as conventional as I Am Divine – yet, really, would anybody believe the … Read More
VOD TV review: True Blood Season 7 Episode 3 (Fire in the Hole)
July 21, 2014 | Jo Bromilow
As the body count rises thick and fast in the final season of True Blood, it was inevitable that, faced with their own mortality, the show’s characters (and indirectly the show’s writers) would have to contemplate loss. As Season 7 … Read More
