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A web-video series by Mathew Buck, where he does a quick (usually) spoiler-free look at recent films in the UK, often ahead of their release in the US.

Compare and contrast with Buck's other series; Bad Movie Beatdown.

See his YouTube page, his Dailymotion page, his tumblr, his Twitter and his BlueSky.

Provides examples of (including tropes he has pointed out in the movies he reviews):

• Audience-Alienating Premise: invoked Discussed. He notes in his review of How I Live Now that it's about a not-very-likable character trying to get back to someone who is their cousin/lover. He also notes that it flopped in his native UK, probably because of this.
• Awful British Sex Comedy: He thought that Keith Lemon: The Film was so bad it harkened back to the days of The '70s, when audiences' tastes were shifting from the Carry On... Series to the likes of Confessions of a Window Cleaner.
• Bait-and-Switch: In his review of xXx: Return of Xander Cage:
  In 2002, the James Bond franchise stumbled with Die Another Day, and found it's throne threatened by a young upstart that showed how out of touch it was at that moment. And that movie was The Bourne Identity.
• Catchphrase: "Hello and welcome to Projector, and on this episode..."
• Early-Installment Weirdness: The first few episodes were unscripted and had Mathew inviting his friends to discuss the film. The series is now a one-man show and Mathew rarely goes unscripted, unless there aren't enough clips of the movie.
• Freudian Slip: In the review of Search Party, when he comments on Thomas Middleditch spending most of the film naked:
  This is a mainstream comedy [...] that features loads and loads of Thomas Middledick... sorry, that was a Freudian slip.
• It's Personal: He takes the Twist Ending of Allelujah very personally because he has family who work in the elderly-care industry, and he had invited them to join him for the screening, which went over quite badly.
• Retool: Briefly. Starting with The Imitation Game and '71, Mathew switched from covering one film per episode to a pair, sometimes with a similar theme, with single reviews being used for special episodes instead. However around February 2016 he switched back to doing single reviews only.
• Signing-Off Catchphrase: "I'm Mathew Buck fading out."