Netflix UK film review: The Ivory Game

Directors: Richard Ladkani, Kief Davidson Watch The Ivory Game online in the UK: Netflix UK

An elephant is killed every 15 minutes. It sounds senseless, but that’s the shocking truth of the ivory trade in the modern world. It has … Read More

Amazon’s Chi-Raq gets UK release

Amazon’s Chi-Raq has finally got a UK release date. Spike Lee’s stirring, stunning musical is the first original movie produced by Amazon.

A modern adaptation of the Greek play Lysistrata, by Aristophanes, Chi-Raq stars Teyonah Paris as Lysistrata, who leads … Read More

“This is not Spitting Image”: Claire Foy and Matt Smith talk The Crown, Netflix and dressing up as royalty

Today sees the premiere of Netflix’s epic new original drama, The Crown (read our review here). Starring Claire Foy as a young Elizabeth Windsor, Matt Smith as Philip Mountbatten, and John Lithgow as Winston Churchill, it tells the inside story … Read More

Goliath is Amazon’s most binged US original series

Amazon’s Goliath is its most-binged US original series, the streaming service has announced.

The legal drama, which is created by David E. Kelley, premiered on Amazon Prime Video last month, with Billy Bob Thornton on fine form as Billy McBride, … Read More

Walter Presents TV review: Mafiosa Season 2

The Paoli family go to war in Mafiosa’s bigger, darker and grittier second season.Read More

UK TV recap: Arrow Season 5, Episode 2 (The Recruits)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

After the efficient set-up work laid down by Season 5’s opener, Legacy, Arrow continues in a very promising vein, with the establishment of Team Arrow 2.0, which includes hockey mask-wearing vigilante Wild Dog (aka Rene Ramirez), … Read More

First look Netflix UK TV review: The Crown

Netflix’s sumptuous costume drama is a roaring, royal success.Read More

First look Netflix UK TV review: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season 2

One of the main problems with Season 1 of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (read our review here) was that it went on way too long. There were 18 episodes and a whole lot of the middle of that was treading water, character-wise. … Read More

Netflix beat BBC to The Crown “because they could fund it”

This weekend sees the premiere of an epic new costume drama. Charting the life of Queen Elizabeth II, from her wedding through the Suez crisis, the royal series is the kind of thing traditional British TV does best. Where can … Read More

UK TV review: The Walking Dead Season 7, Episode 2

This is a spoiler-free review. Read on at the bottom for spoilers in full bloody detail.

While we’re still reeling from the shocking Season 7 opening, Episode 2 provides a welcome respite from fear and tension, a calmer affair – … Read More