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.
VOD film review: The Cabin in the Woods
June 8, 2013 | Chris Bryant
Drew Goddard’s satire of the horror genre is an entertaining blitz of horror and laughs.Read More
Amazon Prime film review: Coco Before Chanel
June 8, 2013 | David Farnor
Audrey Tautou oozes class in this uneven but captivating biopic.Read More
Netflix review: Priceless
June 8, 2013 | Philip W BaylesDirector: Pierre Salvadori Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh, Marie-Christine Adam, Vernon Dobtcheff Watch online: Netflix
With Audrey Tautou’s Thérèse Desqueyroux out in cinemas now, we look back at some of Audrey’s other films available on VOD.
Pierre Salvadori’s Priceless is, … Read More
Netflix review: Arrested Development Series 4 Episode 10
June 7, 2013 | Andrew JonesQueen B. finds us about two-thirds through the new season of Arrested Development and the focus is on Lucille, from her post-boat debacle to her court case and imprisonment in various locales as she finds ways to keep the company … Read More
Netflix UK / VOD film review: Village at the End of the World
June 6, 2013 | David Farnor
Director: Sarah Gavron Watch Village at the End of the World online in the UK: Netflix UK / Apple TV (iTunes) / TalkTalk TV
The Inuit language has hundreds of words for snow. So goes the urban legend. But what’s … Read More
Netflix review: Arrested Development Series 4 Episode 9
June 6, 2013 | Andrew JonesSmashed, the second of Tobias’ episodes in Arrested Development Season Four, follows on from the unfortunate trapping of our man Fünke by John Beard’s TV show. Now a registered sex offender, he goes on work release to Lucille Austero’s rehab … Read More
Film review: Thérèse Desqueyroux
June 6, 2013 | Philip W Bayles
Director: Claude Miller Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Catherine Arditi Watch online on: Netflix UK / Curzon Home Cinema
Chosen to close the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in honour of its director, the late Claude Miller, Thérèse Desqueyroux … Read More
VOD film review: Wreck-It Ralph
June 6, 2013 | David Farnor
Product placement takes precedent over video games in this disappointingly hollow animation.Read More
VOD film review: Fast Five
June 6, 2013 | David Farnor
The addition of Dwayne Johnson makes Fast Five the most entertainingly furious load of nonsense yet.Read More
VOD film review: For Ellen
June 6, 2013 | David Farnor
So Yong Kim’s drama about an estranged father and daughter is a moving tale powered by raw performances.Read More
