Review

Screen queens… Let’s get this out of the way: Unfriended is about a killer Skype call. In fact, the entire movie is one long video call (with a few plot-driven visits to Facebook, YouTube and Spotify) held by a group of irritating teenagers you wouldn’t want to spend two minutes …

Poor Jimmy. Despite an embarrassing tendency to over-share, he’d become a useful ally and good company on supply runs. But with a rucksack of meds weighing him down, his machete arm had slowed, and a laboured swipe was enough to see him swarmed by a group of zombies. The worst …

“Palmer knows I’m the Arrow?” asks Oliver, incredulous. It’s not exactly an exclusive club – by this point most of Starling seems to have the lowdown on Oliver’s dual identity – but it’s a decent enough pretext for an episode that wants to explore contrasting approaches to heroics. Brandon Routh …

Talk about a clue in the title, although it’s a little bit of a tease, too. You don’t need to be much of Batman fan to know who Jonathan Crane is, so as soon as Julian Sands appears in the opening scene as a murderer who, for some reason, delights …

“Nanda Parbat” takes a while to kick into gear. The bulk of this episode reminds you that the show has an overload of characters just now, many of them serving exactly the same dramatic function. They’re there to be the voice of Oliver’s conscience but it’s as if that conscience …

The Sniper Elite games have got a cracking gimmick. Ever since Goldeneye, people love cutting about with a sniper rifle, popping heads from afar while the poor enemies don’t have a clue what is going on. Sniper Elite introduced a slow motion X-Ray camera shot at the point of impact, …

This tin man has heart. Brains, however… Special effects wunderkind Neill Blomkamp dazzled with debut District 9, but follow-up Elysium disappointed, failing to deliver the socially conscious themes and spectacular CGI action with the same keen sting. Chappie falls somewhere between the two – structurally very similar to District 9 …

O mother, where art thou? Talk about a prophetic title. Released in the US a week after Gone Girl, this adaptation of Laura Kasischke’s novel concerning a woman’s disappearance got swallowed up whole. Not that Gregg Araki’s vivid tales of angst-ridden youth have ever been designed to set tills ringing, …

As the show passes the halfway point in its (criminally way too short) first season there’s a slight change in tone, and not just because Peggy has given up massaging the delicate egos of the men around her. “The Iron Ceiling” is a little bit less of a romp, with …

All hail David Oyelowo’s King… Amid all the awards buzz around British actors this year, it’s heartening to see David Oyelowo finally get his due. After his electrifying turn as Forest Whitaker’s activist son in The Butler, it was only a matter of time before the Oxford-born actor got a …