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VOD film review: Starter for 10
April 21, 2019 | David FarnorJames McAvoy is on starmaking form in this winning coming-of-age comedy that gets every answer right.Read More
Catch Up TV review: Chimerica, The Durrells Season 4, The Great British School Swap
April 21, 2019 | David FarnorWhat’s available on-demand on Freeview? Keep up-to-date with our weekly catch-up TV column, including reviews of shows on ITV Hub, new releases on All 4 and a guide to My5.
(For BBC TV reviews and round-ups, see our weekly Best … Read More
Father Ted: The 10 best episodes
April 21, 2019 | Ian Winterton24 years ago, a new sitcom aired on Channel 4. A mixture of the surreal and the banal, it took us to Craggy Island, where three priests lived desperate and stifled lives – like Basil Fawlty’s hotel, only with added … Read More
Why you should be watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force on All 4
April 20, 2019 | Andrew JonesShort, surreal and crassly funny, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is Adult Swim at its Adult Swimmiest.Read More
Netflix TV review: Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, Episode 14 (Finale)
April 20, 2019 | Ian WintertonA blisteringly good game-changing season finale for Discovery.Read More
Homecoming the first of three Beyoncé projects for Netflix
April 20, 2019 | David FarnorThis week, Netflix sent music fans into meltdown with the premiere of new Beyoncé documentary Homecoming. The movie, which is anchored around her 2018 performance at Coachella, offers an intimate, in-depth look at the celebrated concert, from creative concept to … Read More
The Weekly MUBI Digest | 20th April 2019
April 20, 2019 | David FarnorMUBI continues the first-ever complete UK retrospective of the important husband and wife filmmaking partnership Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet – a duo that have carved their own path through cinema, making fiercely confrontational films against capitalism, oppression, fascism, and … Read More
Magnifica 70 returns to Walter Presents for darker, dirtier Season 2
April 19, 2019 | David FarnorMagnifica 70 is returning to Walter Presents this spring, for a second season that promises to be darker and dirtier.
Picking up the action five years on from the end of the first season, relationships have shifted and Vicente and … Read More
What’s leaving Sky and NOW TV in April / May 2019?
April 19, 2019 | David FarnorEaster is upon us, and in between trying to binge on Game of Thrones, take care not to miss some of the other top shows and movies disappearing from Sky and NOW, as licences expire and aren’t renewed for the … Read More
Trailer: Netflix dares you not to Flinch this May
April 19, 2019 | David FarnorDo. Not. Flinch. That’s the simple rule behind Netflix’s bizarre new game show – and a trailer gives us a first look at what’s in store.
The action comedy reality series is set on a remote farm in the … Read More