Click here to sign in/register.
 Thinking is working... take that walk.
Latest







The most recent reviews and news stories added to the site.
Jessica's trial.

Advert

Myprotein's Standards Academy has three rules: no excuses; no probables; and no half measures. Protagonist Jessica breaks one of them right away, but there's still time to salvage her application. All she has to do is keep her wits about her, learn as much as possible, and—most importantly—get her protein in.

4 September 2026 - 17:40

In Short

Advert

Hershey's
'Pinky Up'


Pop band Katseye, sans Manon Bannerman, perform 'Pinky Up' and hijack a subway train in Tanu Muiño's head-rush Hershey's commercial for the chocolate brand.

Advert

Arla
'Stairs v Escalator'


Directed and narrated by Jeff Low for Arla, this competitive commercial takes both the stairs and the escalator on one determined woman's race upstairs.

Advert

Home Office - Violence Against Women and Girls
'Train'


In this reprise of an earlier campaign, an act of sexual harassment is likened once again with the foreboding presence of a snake, perhaps having even more resonance in this scenario as it depicts unwanted touching in a public space.

Promo

ANOTR
'Like It'


At a lavish fancy dress party, an overwhelmed young man watches increasingly hedonistic behaviour before being seduced into participation in Alice Kong's entertaining ANOTR promo.

Advert

Rag & Bone
'On Tour with Cara Delevingne'


Cara Delevingne's 'Not Normal' era has piqued the interest of American fashion label Rag & Bone, which features her in a black-and-white commercial about her new groove.

Advert

Stone Island
'The Calm and the Chaos'


Stone Island captures bands including High Vis, Angel Du$t, Knocked Loose, and Haywire 617, while urgent sound design and gutsy photography counter verbose narration.

Advert

Women on Web
'Safe Abortions @ Home'


Directed by Sophie Lahusen for Women on Web, this ad follows three women in Iran, Mexico, and the United States, supported by friends and family.

Advert

IAMISIGO
'Sacred Ecologies'


IAMISIGO is fashion you can wear, with an avant-garde vibe rooted in the intersection between craft and entrepreneurialism evident in Nairobi, Accra and Lagos.

Advert

Marriott Bonvoy
'Where Passions Wake Up'


The narrator of this Marriott Bonvoy commercial sounds polite rather than pumped about its tie-up with Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, despite its subject matter.

Advert

Snickers
'Troll'


Aunty Donna's Broden Kelly gets one heck of a glow-down in this Snickers commercial about watching sport on an empty stomach, with beastly results.

Advert

John Lewis
'John Lewis Money'


A French feline explains why John Lewis home insurance means that she can help her humans worry less, even as things go wrong around them.

Advert

Verizon
'Tough When It Counts'


Apple and Verizon stage a countrified tie-up in which an iPhone 17 Pro, soundtracked by Alannah Myles, survives a fall from a mechanical bull.

News Bite

Spy Films hits the Reset Content button.

Canada's Spy Films now represents "a curated selection of Reset Content's roster" for commercial and branded work in the Great White North. Spy's Managing Director and Executive Producer Marcus Trulli explains: "I've always been a fan of Reset. Not only in the deep roster, but the commitment to exceptional craft and creative excellence, similar to that of the ethos we embody here."

News Bite

Change is afoot at the Sweetshop.

Ore Okonedo has replaced Morgan Whitlock as Managing Director of the Sweetshop UK, with the latter now focusing on the company's nascent AI wing, The Gardening.club. The former, meanwhile, hopes to be "the final piece in the jigsaw that completes and complements the London office", where "a solid infrastructure, brand, history, and a great roster of directors" live.

News Bite

Freefolk installs Matt Fisher as Head of Creative Technology.

Freefolk's new Head of Creative Technology—its first ever Head of Creative Technology, in fact—is none other than Matt Fisher, who's got VFX, AI, and more on his plate. Before he tucks in, Fisher says: "It's a genuine opportunity to shape future post production workflows, and change the way media is created. All while preserving the craft that makes this profession so great."

Advert

Authenticity over artificiality.

Vivian Jenna Wilson has stated publicly that she no longer wants to be related to her biological father, Elon Musk. You can't blame her... for his part, Musk has said that his child had effectively been “killed by the woke mind virus”. In this marvellous ad for Desigual, Wilson takes aim at Musk by ridiculing his peculiar certainty that the artificial is always preferable to the authentic. His core message is one of complete capitulation to the idea that our species will be superseded by an intelligence of our own manufacture... and Wilson is having none of it.

Advert

Paws for effect.

Amanda Anisimova may not have won the 2026 Cincinnati Open (she lost in the quarter-finals to Jessica Pegula), but we doubt she'll forget the tournament in a hurry.

Promo

Devil's Advocate'!

In November 2025, American rapper Pink Siifu released ‘Black!Antique; Onyx'!’, an extended take on that year's 'Black'!Antique' album. One of the new songs, 'Devil's Advocate'!' gets its own music video at last... and we're pleased to say it was worth the wait.

4 September 2026 - 16:32

4 September 2026 - 16:08

4 September 2026 - 16:00

Advert

The fire rises.

Short Film '(Un)Becoming' stars Carla Juri in Florine and Kim Nüesch's feminist manifesto, a passion project developed, financed, shot, edited, and refined over a year.

Let me think about it.

Advert

Gillian Anderson goes from 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' to part three of Marks & Spencer's 'Love That' campaign—now that's what DAVID calls whiplash. After a couple of painkillers and a lie-down, however, he's ready for a bloodless treat set in the Victoria and Albert Museum's National Art Library.

4 September 2026 - 13:07

3 September 2026 - 18:12

Advert

Spitball.

On the day driverless taxis began heaving passengers around London and we were obliged to ask, 'Do we really need this?' Dyson have introduced an electric toothbrush which can apparently live stream the inside of your mouth, and we were able to stop worrying about driverless taxis and start worrying about this instead. That said, while the answer to the question 'do we need this?' may be 'no', the answer to the question 'do we want this?' may well be 'yes', particularly if the question is put to a man who's bought all the other Dyson products over the years.

Advert

A silent competition.

Sometimes it feels like we're undermining the director's contribution when we observe that the voiceover artist is largely responsible for the success of a piece of work, but this time around we feel sure that the director will not mind us saying this. That's because Jeff Low, director, and Jeff Low, voiceover artist, are one and the same.

Advert

Sink up the gaff.

Viewers get two sinks for the price of one in this wet and wonderful Calvin Klein commercial. One is 'Stranger Things' and 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' actor Sadie Sink, and the other is… her kitchen sink. In director Aidan Zamiri's latest 'Feel the Fit' spot, the flesh-and-blood Sink is too lost in a denim reverie to care about her sink overflowing, her toaster going haywire, or her washing machine spewing out bubbles.

3 September 2026 - 23:51

3 September 2026 - 23:38

3 September 2026 - 18:13

A night on the town.

Advert

Gracie Abrams gives the paparazzi the slip and heads off to a club where all the cool folk are hanging out in this spectacular ad made for Chanel Coco by director Joe Wright. This may only be relatable if you too have been a young star endlessly hounded by the world press, but there’s a charm in the way it's been put together and Wright makes full use of the disco classic that's the real star of the piece.

Advert

Beat the crowd.

EA Sports FC 27 says pre-order life rewards Tom Davis, KSI, and Adebayo Akinfenwa, while non-pre-order life leaves others shaving heads and watching paint dry.

3 September 2026 - 12:49

3 September 2026 - 12:49

New Signing

It's Bradley & Pablo for Spy Films.

Bradley & Pablo (Bradley Bell and Pablo Jones-Soler) have signed for Spy Films in Canada, where a stoked MD and Executive Producer Marcus Trulli says: "We're beyond excited to have Bradley & Pablo on the roster. They both bring a clever comedic sensibility to their work through a very fresh cinematic lens, which is perfect for our market."

New Signing

Park Village snaps up Philip H J Gay.

Director and photographer Philip H J Gay is now represented by Park Village in the UK. Gay, who flits between London and Paris, has a portfolio that reads like a magazine stand: i-D, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, GQ, Elle… you name it, chances are the Gloucester-born talent has shot for it. Off the back of his debut short film, 'Heaven To Know You', Gay's keen to develop his showreel even further.

New Signing

The Corner Shop lands Jake Mavity.

Now on the books at The Corner Shop, director Jake Mavity says the company "has some of the best storytellers in the game, so I'm chuffed to bring my style of big, emotional filmmaking on board." As Mavity makes himself at home, founder Anna Hashmi shares her thoughts on the ever-reliable director.

3 September 2026 - 12:25

3 September 2026 - 11:52

3 September 2026 - 11:14

Advert

What shall I wear?

If only we all had the sage advice of fashion designer Bella Freud in our heads when we stand in front of our wardrobe and ask that universal question: 'What shall I wear today?'

Advert

Talkin' about a heatwave.

DAVID feels seen! Haven't we all, at one time or another, wriggled around on a bed after pulling our slim fit jeans over our hips and feeling that triumphant guilty pleasure of knowing that they fit... sort of. The young woman in this stylish commercial need not worry: her jeans are an exquisite fit, and her celebration has as much to do with her joie de vivre at just being herself as it does with the clothes she is wearing.

Advert

Back in the game.

Four Audis are up to no good at the racetrack in this mischievous piece of marketing which serves to remind us that the German car manufacturer is participating in Formula One these days. They also want to let us know that they are producing electric vehicles, hence the tagline "it's always the quiet ones". It is a blessed relief to know that BBH London has been given the task of advertising Audi once again... they may have had the account for the last few years, but there has been some imported dross in that time, which has fallen well short of the standards they have set.

2 September 2026 - 20:16

2 September 2026 - 17:51

2 September 2026 - 17:42

Advert

A shitshow.

Mobile Vikings provides brilliant internet access, but a young man's ill-fated romantic surprises show that what users do with it may not always be wise.

Dance class.

Advert

The child-friendly fashions of Zara come to the fore in this beautifully choreographed ad for the inexpensive retailer from directing team D+Y. A thumping track by Eman Reiff called 'Black Cat White Cat' provides a perfect soundtrack for David Vu's choreography, some of which is performed by DONTSTOP DANCE. East Asian performances can to occidental eyes sometimes be overly regimented, but here the movement is casual and engaging throughout and commands our attention.

2 September 2026 - 17:14

2 September 2026 - 20:30

Advert

Are you token the piss?

Another week, another short film centred around a cursed conference call. Unlike 'Can You Hop On a Quick Call?', writer and director Meena Ayittey's 'The Call' (that's the last time we'll use that word, we promise) features a more traditional take on the technology, with Clara (Adwoa Akoto) the unlucky user.

Promo

Mary Jane

Good Neighbours are Oli Fox and Scott Verrill, two guys from London with a blue sky mentality (also the name of their 2025 debut album). For all we know, they might also be fans of Bluesky, the social media platform. For now, though, let's assume it means a breezy, upbeat outlook that leads to songs like 'Mary Jane'.

Promo

Don't Eat, Don't Sleep

This riveting promo for 'Don't Eat, Don't Sleep' by Gliiico explores the sleazy underbelly of the urban jungle through the prism of a chain-smoking male protagonist on the lookout for cheap thrills and who knows what else. The seediness seeps off the screen like a weeping wound in a meandering and purposeless sequence that grips your attention like an attack dog.

2 September 2026 - 16:24

2 September 2026 - 13:55

2 September 2026 - 13:50

Dogged determination.

Advert

There are shades of Macmillan's 'Whatever It Takes' commercial to the new Guide Dogs ad. The former was an epic, emotional drama that never shied away from pain and uncertainty; the latter shares much of that same honesty and heft, as a cast of children and adults take those monumental first steps.

New Signing

Tiny Bullet's big move to Merman.

Merman has signed director and badger whisperer Tiny Bullet to its commercial roster, which the company says had a "Tiny Bullet-shaped hole in it" for too long.

2 September 2026 - 16:51

2 September 2026 - 16:51

New Signing

Shift Post promotes Rob McGuire to Editor.

Drinks all round at Shift Post as Rob McGuire is promoted to Editor. McGuire, who came on board as an Edit Assistant in September 2025, says: "It's a dream to be surrounded by a bunch of lovely legends who all share a real passion for editing (and going to the pub). I'm really looking forward to what's ahead."

Advert

This is Anfield.

Owen Cooper of 'Adolescence' fame provides the voiceover for this terrific film advertising Liverpool's new kit merch. Liverpool may no longer be the "bastion of invincibility" that Bill Shankly once boasted about but a visit to Anfield is still a daunting proposition and the place itself has tremendous cultural heft. At the time of writing, we have been unable to identify those responsible for the sound design and music... it is terrific and they deserve a shout out.

New Signing

Teepee Films taps director Claudia Lee.

London-based writer and director Claudia Lee has completed her move to Teepee Films. "Claudia is exactly the kind of filmmaker we love to champion," Executive Producer and Founder Tom Precey explains. "She has an incredibly distinctive voice, a strong visual sensibility, and an instinctive understanding of character and emotion that can blend perfectly across commercial genres and brands.

2 September 2026 - 11:24

2 September 2026 - 11:02

2 September 2026 - 10:51

DAVID REVIEWS IS OWNED BY THE MAYSTONE MEDIA CO LTD. EDITED BY JASON STONE +44 7860 834622.