UK TV VOD review: American Horror Story: Freak Show Episode 12 (Show Stoppers)

The tricksy thing about American Horror Story is that, from the first episode of each reboot, no one is safe: at any point, any character can die, any character can fall in love, any character can fall from grace and … Read More

Netflix UK film review: The Fighter

A knock-out cast give The Fighter’s conventional script a wallop of compassion. Read More

VOD film review: If I Stay

The relationship between the human couple may not always engage, but their relationship with music does.Read More

VOD film review: Before I Go to Sleep

Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman are engaging in this enjoyable, if forgettable, thriller.Read More

Amazon will start making original movies this year

Amazon will start making original movies this year.

If you asked us for our VOD predictions at the start of 2015, Amazon producing their own films would have been top of the list. Netflix has had great success with its … Read More

UK VOD TV review: Togetherness Episode 1

There are few words that are less arousing than “take the baby monitor with you”. It’s a truth that Michelle (Melanie Lynskey) and Brett (Mark Duplass) are trying to come to terms with, as their marriage hits a mid-life crisis … Read More

UK TV review: Girls Season 4, Episode 2

When discussing the first episode of Girls with a friend, they expressed disappointment at the show’s return. Why, we asked? They explained that they anticipated Hannah to have already been to the writer’s workshop in Iowa, and that now would … Read More

Amazon TV pilot review: The Man in the High Castle, Down Dog and The New Yorker Presents

Hot on the heels of Transparent’s Golden Globe win, Amazon is back with its new season of TV pilots – available for free to customers and non-customers alike. Feedback from viewers is then used to decide which to commission as … Read More

UK TV review: Constantine Season 1, Episode 9 (The Saint of Last Resorts, Part 2)

Warning: This contains mild spoilers.

Now, where were we? A sister of Eve (yes, that Eve) kidnapped two babies from a friend of John’s old Newcastle flame, Anne Marie, for La Brujería, who are behind this Rising Darkness malarkey – … Read More

VOD TV review: Cyberbully

“Of course I don’t think it’s ok. But it’s normal. It happens.”

That’s Casey in Cyberbully, Channel 4’s one-off drama about the perils of the Internet. The title alone puts in you mind of a cheesy cautionary tale, the kind … Read More