Cas Harlow

Cas Harlow works as the movie review coordinator for AVForums and is responsible for all the cinema, streaming, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray content. He also organises the movie coverage, PR screenings, PR discs and competitions, and produces reviews and articles for the site, as well as participating in the podcasts.

Cas has been reviewing movie content and discs for over 20 years, is an avid film buff and is our resident movies expert, having reviewed several thousand titles both on the Big and Small Screen, across DVD, HD DVD, Blu-ray and now Ultra HD Blu-ray.

Cas is also a non-practising Barrister and practicing Solicitor and has a degree in Electronic Engineering and a Postgrad in Law.

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    Land of Bad Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Land of Bad Movie Review
    Improbably turning what sounded like a low budget straight-to-video 'lite' version of Bat 21 meets Lone Survivor - replete with a questionable cast - into a minor gem of a military survival thriller, Land of Bad is a genuine surprise winner.  
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    Fast Charlie (Amazon) Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Fast Charlie (Amazon) Movie Review
    Brosnan and Baccarin afford this cheap low-rent 'thriller' from Dead Calm's Phillip Noyce a distinctly YMMV justification for sitting through its amateurish hijinks.  
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    Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version) (Disney+) Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version) (Disney+) Movie Review
    The concert epic that shook the blockbuster landscape to the tune of a quarter of a billion, Eras is a thoroughly grand and impressively choreographed celebration of the sheer star power of Taylor Swift.  
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    Drive-Away Dolls Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Drive-Away Dolls Movie Review
    Shooting for Bottoms meets Pulp Fiction, this cheap, tonally awry, distinctly un-funny, try-hard, sack-full-of-dildos romp utterly misfires, clearly coming from the wrong solo Coen Brother, and both awkwardly and shamelessly wasting the talents of a couple of good actresses.  
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    Anatomy of a Fall Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Anatomy of a Fall Movie Review
    Following its Oscar win, and in advance of its long overdue Amazon Prime UK bow, we take a belated look at this compelling legal drama.  
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    Dune: Part Two (IMAX) Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Dune: Part Two (IMAX) Movie Review
    After a long and uncertain three year wait, Denis Villeneuve's Magnum Opus continues with this epic second chapter in his staggering realisation of Frank Herbert's Dune - UPDATED WITH IMAX REVIEW.  
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    Best Netflix Horror Movies

    by Cas Harlow
    Best Netflix Horror Movies
    Looking for a Netflix Original to suit your horror movie viewing needs?  
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    Damsel (Netflix) Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Damsel (Netflix) Movie Review
    Continuing her run of Netflix starring vehicles, Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown takes on a competently designed CG dragon in a flabby, frivolous piece of perfectly tolerable night-in entertainment.  
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    The Beekeeper Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    The Beekeeper Movie Review
    Nuts and bolts Statham doing what he does best; it's trashy, it's hilariously OTT, but it's also a frequently viscerally satisfying piece of revenge action carnage. UPDATE - NOW ON SKY/NOW TV  
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    American Fiction Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    American Fiction Movie Review
    Sharply witty and sublimely satirical, and providing a much-deserved, tour-de-force lead for the excellent Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction is definitely worth catching whilst it's still on the Big Screen. UPDATE - Now on Amazon Prime UK.  
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    The Gentlemen (Netflix) TV Show Review

    by Cas Harlow
    The Gentlemen (Netflix) TV Show Review
    Somewhat insanely, Guy Ritchie's created/written/directed TV spin-off to his 2019 movie of the same name is great fun, chock full of colourful characters, bursting with witty dialogue, and utterly bingeworthy.  
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    Kindergarten Cop 4K Blu-ray Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Kindergarten Cop 4K Blu-ray Review
    After a slew of defining 80s action classics, Schwarzenegger shifted to a decade of alternating action with comedy, with mixed results on both sides. But at least Arnie fans get to come one step closer to completing their 4K collection courtesy of Kino's US disc.  
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    Ferrari (Sky/NowTV) Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Ferrari (Sky/NowTV) Movie Review
    Decades in the making and still somewhat late out of the gate, Michael Mann's Ferrari is all about the characters and the drama, but are valiantly Award-baiting performances enough?  
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    The Marvels 4K Blu-ray Review

    by Cas Harlow
    The Marvels 4K Blu-ray Review
    A Holiday Special of a Marvel movie, it's unsurprising to find the 33rd MCU entry amidst the three lowest rated, and once again Disney display a complete disdain towards the very physical media that might help this flop break even, releasing it on 4K HDR after its streaming bow, and without the Disney+ trappings of Dolby Vision and IMAX Enhancement.  
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    Lone Star 4K Blu-ray Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Lone Star 4K Blu-ray Review
    Indie director John Sayles' finest feature, the Neo-Western, Lone Star, is a richly crafted mystery drama, and a fine addition to the Criterion Collection.  
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    Constellation (Apple TV+) Premiere TV Show Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Constellation (Apple TV+) Premiere TV Show Review
    Launching as a Gravity-esque space survival flick, this new Apple TV+ Noomi Rapace sci-fi vehicle soon flashes its mystery box teeth with heady notions of quantum physics and a lot more going on under the hood than you might expect.  
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    Best Netflix Action Movies

    by Cas Harlow
    Best Netflix Action Movies
    Looking for a Netflix Original to suit your action movie viewing needs?  
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    Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Amazon) TV Show Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Amazon) TV Show Review
    Ditching the more whimsical McG-style excesses of the 2005 Brangelina action comedy, this Amazon reboot - created by and starring Atlanta's Donald Glover - immediately feels like it's trying to do something different with a familiar concept. UPDATED for full season review.  
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    The Holdovers Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    The Holdovers Movie Review
    Commanded by a fabulously curmudgeonly performance by Paul Giamatti, his reunion with writer/director Alexander "Sideways" Payne makes for a surprisingly uplifting festive feast.  
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    The Iron Claw Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    The Iron Claw Movie Review
    A doom-laden, utterly tragic look at the near-cultish Von Erich family's relentless determination to conquer the wrestling world - whatever the cost.  
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    The Promised Land Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    The Promised Land Movie Review
    Mads Mikkelsen once again makes an otherwise slight endeavour infinitely more watchable in this tale of tenacity.  
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    Culprits (Disney+) TV Show Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Culprits (Disney+) TV Show Review
    Furiously late to the party, we tune in to discover that Culprits is a slick, brutal, and unbearably tense heist thriller that's a surprise choice for one of the best shows of the tail end of 2023.  
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    The Bricklayer (Sky) Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    The Bricklayer (Sky) Movie Review
    Continuing the theme of underacknowledged professions for former assassins after Statham's The Beekeeper, Aaron Eckhart tries his best to employ every tool in his bricklaying bag to dispatch his opponents in Renny "Cliffhanger, Die Hard 2, You Should Know Better Than This" Harlin's latest, curiously vaguely watchable piece of utter trash.  
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    The Raid 4K Blu-ray Review

    by Cas Harlow
    The Raid 4K Blu-ray Review
    One of the finest pure action movies of all time, Gareth Evans' 2011 breakthrough assaulted audiences upon release, but gets an utterly unexpected new lease of life courtesy of the kind of complete-makeover 4K remaster nobody ever expected it to get.  
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    Orion and the Dark (Netflix) Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Orion and the Dark (Netflix) Movie Review
    Charlie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" Kaufman writes a Dreamworks animation for Netflix based on a kid's book about confronting your worst fears?  
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    Ginny & Georgia Season 1 (Netflix) TV Show Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Ginny & Georgia Season 1 (Netflix) TV Show Review
    Digging into what makes Netflix viewers click, we roll out on the Top 10 most viewed productions with one of their all-time most popular shows to see what the fuss is about.  
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    Bottoms (Amazon) Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Bottoms (Amazon) Movie Review
    Shiva Baby writer/director Emma Seligman hits another home run with this fabulously unleashed high school sex comedy satire - now on Amazon Prime UK!  
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    Sexy Beast (Paramount+) Premiere TV Show Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Sexy Beast (Paramount+) Premiere TV Show Review
    Just as sure as another week comes to a close, unsurprisingly, another prequel show nobody asked for lands on Paramount Plus to add to its increasingly inessential roster.  
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    Face/Off 4K Blu-ray Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Face/Off 4K Blu-ray Review
    John Woo's assault on Hollywood may not have quite delivered in the same way as his HK masterpieces, but damn if it didn't peak with the gleefully ridiculous and relentlessly entertaining Face/Off.  
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    The Brothers Sun (Netflix) TV Show Review

    by Cas Harlow
    The Brothers Sun (Netflix) TV Show Review
    Late to the party, turns out the Michelle Yeoh-starring The Brothers Sun is one of the best things on Netflix in January.  
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    Reacher Season 2 (Amazon) TV Show Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Reacher Season 2 (Amazon) TV Show Review
    Reacher's back! The poster of his back exclaims, in perfect tone with the character, and boy is he, with a fabulous kick-start to Amazon's TV show adaptation of the 11th book, Bad Luck and Trouble. UPDATED FOR FULL SEASON REVIEW.  
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    Fargo Season 5 (Amazon) TV Show Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Fargo Season 5 (Amazon) TV Show Review
    Noah "Legion" Hawley's FX anthology series, Fargo, returns for its fifth 'instalment', introducing us to another disparate set of colourful characters and a more thoroughly classic Fargo scenario to sink your teeth into - UPDATED FOR FULL SEASON REVIEW.  
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    The Creator 4K Blu-ray Review

    by Cas Harlow
    The Creator 4K Blu-ray Review
    Derivative but effective, Gareth "Rogue One" Edwards' understated sci-fi gem does everything that Snyder's Rebel Moon couldn't, fashioning familiar elements into a pretty compelling new whole.  
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    The Marsh King's Daughter (Amazon) Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    The Marsh King's Daughter (Amazon) Movie Review
    Neil Burger's latest is another almost-good offering - a Crawdads-esque book adaptation that trips on the final hurdle.  
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    Mean Streets 4K Blu-ray Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Mean Streets 4K Blu-ray Review
    The first Scorsese/DeNiro collaboration was a striking, raw debut hitting UK 4K with a lavish Criterion-rivalling set from Second Sight.  
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    For All Mankind Season 4 (Apple TV+) TV Show Review

    by Cas Harlow
    For All Mankind Season 4 (Apple TV+) TV Show Review
    Apple's finest flagship show lands with another deep impact opener, affording a glimpse at what will undoubtedly be another memorable season of this tremendous alternate sci-fi series - UPDATED FOR FULL SEASON REVIEW.  
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    Echo (Disney+) TV Show Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Echo (Disney+) TV Show Review
    Marvel's new standalone "Spotlight" brand kick-starts with a show that absolutely requires you to have boatloads of previous knowledge, enjoying a decent anti-hero action lead and elevated no end by Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin - UPDATED FOR FULL SEASON.  
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    One More Shot (Sky) Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    One More Shot (Sky) Movie Review
    Scott Adkins fashions a solid follow-up to his perfectly watchable continuous-shot-style actioner, One Shot, recruiting Tom Berenger and Michael Jai White to add to the mix.  
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    Slow Horses: Season 3 - Real Tigers (Apple TV+) TV Show Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Slow Horses: Season 3 - Real Tigers (Apple TV+) TV Show Review
    Apple's gloriously grungy spy show returns for its third season in two years, with Gary Oldman still flatulating his way around being the best spy that nobody ever noticed - UPDATED for full review.  
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    Foe (Amazon) Movie Review

    by Cas Harlow
    Foe (Amazon) Movie Review
    Garth Davis' indie psychological drama wields a sci-fi backdrop with Black Mirror-esque Machiavellian malice.  
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