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First look UK TV review: Star Trek: Picard: Season 2
March 12, 2022 | Chris Bryant
Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard ups the ante for a more focused, exciting return.Read More
VOD film review: West Side Story (2021)
March 6, 2022 | David Farnor
Steven Spielberg’s lavish update of the iconic musical is cinema at its ravishing, dazzling, swooning best.Read More
VOD film review: The Real Charlie Chaplin
February 19, 2022 | David Farnor
Charlie Chaplin’s persona is thoughtfully unpicked in this playful, probing documentary.Read More
VOD film review: Flee
February 11, 2022 | Katherine McLaughlin
This exquisitely crafted animation based on a refugee’s tale is tense, unpredictable and profoundly moving.Read More
What Is The Matrix Revolutions? Revisiting the Wachowskis’ trilogy-topper
December 20, 2021 | Mark Harrison
Like it or loathe it, the final entry in the original Matrix trilogy dispels binary thinking and genre tropes.
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What Is The Matrix Reloaded? Revisiting the bamboozled sequel
December 19, 2021 | Mark Harrison
Reloaded tells us everything we know about the Matrix is wrong but struggles to show it.Read More
What Is The Matrix? Revisiting the game-changing original
December 18, 2021 | Mark Harrison
This self-actualising sci-fi simulation is as stimulating as ever.Read More
The Green Knight review: A beautiful, bewitching trip
September 25, 2021 | VOD News
Bravely bold and modern, David Lowery’s dark, handsome Arthurian epic is a bewitching trip of bravery and cowardice.Read More
Space Sweepers: Bursting with imagination and fun
February 8, 2021 | David Farnor
This eye-popping Korean space opera is bursting with imagination, action and fun.Read More
Tenet: An enjoyably dizzying time-twister
December 24, 2020 | David Farnor
Christopher Nolan’s ambitious, enjoyably dizzying time-twister is at its best in motion.Read More
