VOD film review: Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny

Directors: Louis Black, Karen Bernstein Cast: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke Certificate: 15 Watch Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny online in the UK: Curzon Home Cinema / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Rakuten TV / Google Play

A couple of years back, … Read More

VOD film review: Rupture

Director: Steven Shainberg Cast: Noomi Rapace, Peter Stormare, Kerry Bishe, Michael Chiklis Certificate: 15 Watch Rupture online in the UK: Sky Cinema / NOW / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Apple TV (iTunes) / TalkTalk TV / Rakuten TV / Google … Read More

VOD film review: The Darkest Universe

This compassionately bitter drama of grief and grappling with existence is warped, witty and worryingly funny. Read More

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