Netflix UK film review: Don’t Look Up

Adam McKay’s bloated satire still makes an impact with its deceptively dark edge.Read More

Netflix UK film review: The Trial of the Chicago 7

Aaron Sorkin’s timely political drama turns a show trial into a witty cinematic circus.Read More

Netflix UK film review: Ready Player One

Steven Spielberg crafts a thrilling, jaw-dropping piece of pop culture candy where visuals distract from a shallow script.Read More

VOD film review: Dunkirk

This raw, stripped-down war film is a harrowing elegy to British lives lost – and a powerful portrayal of despair in the face of hope.Read More

VOD film review: The BFG (2016)

A galumphing warm hug of a film, The BFG completely captures the wide-eyed wonder of childhood.Read More

Netflix UK film review: Bridge of Spies

Spielberg’s underplayed war flick boils down to a riveting, thrillingly simple two-hander. Read More

UK TV review: Wolf Hall Episode 6

Oh, Anne. We knew you didn’t have the head for the job. The inevitability of history has hung over Wolf Hall from the beginning, giving everything a doomed sense of dramatic irony. Claire Foy has sunk her teeth into it, … Read More

UK TV review: Wolf Hall Episode 5 (Crows)

Whoever said Wolf Hall was boring? The ratings may have dropped for the BBC’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s novels, but the penultimate episode of the season is its busiest yet.

Death comes to Wolf Hall in Episode 5. It might … Read More

UK TV review: Wolf Hall Episode 2

“There’s a conversation I shouldn’t have had.”

That’s Cromwell, after talking to his sister-in-law (Saskia Reeves) in a typically dark room. It’s a key turning point in the BBC’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s novel: after the first, somewhat dizzying, hour … Read More

UK TV review: Wolf Hall Episode 1 (Three Card Trick)

You’ve either read it or you haven’t. Or, perhaps more likely, you’ve started to read it and never quite managed to finish. But now that Wolf Hall has arrived on the BBC, the question isn’t “Have you read it?” but … Read More