Netflix review: Arrested Development Series 4 Episode 5

Oh, Tobias.

The former analrapist is having A New Start in A New Start. He even has a licence plate to that effect, as we find out what he did when his wife began to pull away from him, his … Read More

Netflix review: Arrested Development Series 4 Episode 4

Michael’s second episode, titled The B. Team, jumps this season back to some of the light, silly Hollywood laugh-in stuff that we used to enjoy. It takes Michael to Imagine Entertainment, where the long-gestated Bluth family movie from the end … Read More

Netflix review: Arrested Development Series 4 Episode 3

Indian Takers puts us in the focus of Lindsey Bluth-Fünke, who, as devotees may remember, had her world shattered at the end of Season Three when she found out she was adopted and – worse – 40 years old.

Living with this … Read More

Netflix review: Arrested Development Series 4 Episode 2

Borderline Personalities brings in Arrested Development’s well known political slant to Season Four. No longer related to the Bush administration, Season Four opts for a look at US immigration and George Sr.’s wranglings to build a wall on the border … Read More

Netflix review: Lore

Director: Catherine Shortland Cast: Saskia Rosendahl, Kal Malina Watch online: Apple TV (iTunes) / Netflix UK

It’s not easy growing up as a teenager. But try growing up at the end of World War II with Nazis for parents. Facing … Read More

Netflix review: Arrested Development Series 4 Episode 1

Flight of the Phoenix is our opener for this new series of Arrested Development, where, after many years, we return to the life of Michael Bluth, who is facing his darkest hour: out of pocket, out of options, out of … Read More

VOD film review: Side by Side

Director: Christopher Kenneally Cast: Keanu Reeves Certificate: 15

“I wanted to call film up and say: ‘I met someone’.”

That’s Steven Soderbergh talking to Keanu Reeves about discovering digital filmmaking. A documentary discussing the cinematic changeover from print to pixels, Side … Read More

Netflix review: Arrested Development – Season 1

It’s rare to see a TV show find itself as quickly as 2003’s Arrested Development did. The story of Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman, as a deadpan genius) trying to keep his family’s housing business afloat when his father, George Sr. … Read More

Netflix review: Arrested Development – Season 3

The truncated final broadcast season of Arrested Development can be split into two halves in terms of plot and quality.

The first six episodes deal with Michael (Jason Bateman) falling for beautiful British girl Rita Leeds (a game Charlize Theron), … Read More

Netflix review: Arrested Development – Season 2

Season Two of Arrested Development gleefully starts where Season One stopped – and finds even more juice in the narcissistic fruit that makes up the lifestyle of the Bluths.

Finding out the further quirks of each character, and what the … Read More