2010s
Here's the honest truth about Shakedown: if you were there, inside that underground lesbian strip club scene in early-2000s Los Angeles, this film probably feels like someone cracked open a time capsule and handed it straight to you. If you weren't, you're going
Rating: 4.0★
There's a moment in 1917 where a soldier sprints through a ruined town lit only by drifting flares, buildings crumbling around him, figures emerging from the dark, the whole world reduced to noise and shadow and the desperate pump of legs. It lasts just a few minutes, but
Rating: 2.0★
Let me be honest with you: I went into Re-Animator expecting to have a great time. Stuart Gordon's 1985 splatter-comedy has one of those reputations that precedes it like a foghorn, all glowing reagents and severed heads and knowing winks at the camera. The kind of
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in The Snow Woman where the frame holds on a vast white landscape, the silence so complete you can almost feel the cold through the screen, and you know immediately that this film is going to do things its own way. Tokuzo Tanaka isn&
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in Fish Tank where Mia, alone on a concrete walkway, throws herself into dancing with a ferocity that's equal parts joy and fury. Nobody's watching. Nobody ever watches. And that, right there, is the whole film in miniature: a girl
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To kick this monthly round-up off, here are some of the more popular films you can stream on Amazon Prime Video in the UK right now, the sort worth a look if you are scrolling for something to watch. From next month I will be flagging the fresh arrivals
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Here is the monthly round of comings and goings on Netflix UK for June 2026. There are 19 titles arriving and 48 on their way out, so this is your nudge to catch the leavers before they disappear and to line up a few of the new ones. Joining Netflix
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Here is what is worth keeping an eye on at the cinema across the UK in June 2026. I have stuck to the releases most people will actually have on their radar, the bigger titles and the ones building a real head of steam, rather than listing every last thing
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Here is the monthly round of comings and goings on Netflix UK for May 2026. There are 29 titles arriving and 73 on their way out, so this is your nudge to catch the leavers before they disappear and to line up a few of the new ones. Joining Netflix
1950s
There's something uniquely unnerving about a horror film that doesn't bother with monsters in the traditional sense. No fangs, no slime, no creature lurching out of the dark. Just your neighbour, your wife, your doctor, looking exactly as they always did but with something quietly, irretrievably
1970s
There's a moment early in Fantastic Planet where a giant blue hand reaches down and scoops up a tiny human like you or I might pick up a woodlouse off the kitchen floor. It's matter-of-fact, almost gentle, and it's one of the
1960s
The last fifteen minutes of Viy are something else. A church fills with demons, spectral hands reach through stone walls, a levitating corpse traces slow circles through the dark, and then the creature itself is revealed: an ancient, monstrous thing with eyelids that have to be lifted by its servants
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