Margate Film Festival goes online for 2020

Margate Film Festival is going online for 2020, with a weekend of virtual screenings and previews.

Running from Friday 27th November to Sunday 29th November, the three-day event will feature more than 50 films, including local and international features, shorts, … Read More

Taylor Swift to release Folklore documentary on Disney+

Taylor Swift will release a surprise documentary on Disney+ tomorrow featuring her new album, Folklore.

Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner (The National), Jack Antonoff (Bleachers) and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) created an album that crossed genres this year, while being thousands … Read More

The Queen’s Gambit becomes Netflix’s most popular limited series

The Queen’s Gambit is Netflix’s most popular limited series to date, according to the streaming service.

Based on Walter Tevis’s novel of the same name, The Queen’s Gambit chronicles the life of the orphan chess champion Beth Harmon, who grows … Read More

Trailer: Amazon unleashes The Wilds this December

Amazon is unleashing its new original series The Wilds this December.

The 10-episode drama is part survival thriller, part dystopian slumber party. It follows a group of teen girls from different backgrounds who must fight for survival after a plane … Read More

Trailer: Amazon’s The Grand Tour returns for Massive Hunt this December

The Grand Tour will officially return to Amazon Prime Video this December for a new special.

Amazon Studios announced back in 2018 that it had entered into a new deal with the former Top Gear trio, plus producer Andy Wilman, … Read More

BBC iPlayer lines up more classic films

Just when you think BBC iPlayer can’t spoil us any more, it’s lined up a second collection of classic films from RKO, the studio that was once one of Hollywood’s Big Five players.

This second wave of iconic cinematic offerings … Read More

MUBI Weekly Digest | 21st November 2020

MUBI is shining a spotlight on some of the world’s most distinctive filmmakers this week, with the release of Yorgos Lanthimos’ short film Nimic. It joins a double-bill of Krzysztof Kieślowski films, expanded from his Dekalog, and another offering from … Read More

Trailer: Swan Song set for December debut on Apple TV

“I still can’t believe it…” That’s the sound of Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris teaming up with Swan Song, a new film for Apple TV.

Set in the near future, the drama tells the journey of Cameron (Mahershala Ali), a … Read More

Channel 4 renews Aisling Bea’s This Way Up for Season 2

Channel 4 has renewed This Way Up for a second season.

Aisling Bea’s Merman-produced comedy co-starring Sharon Horgan saw the comedian play Aine, a whip smart English-as-a-foreign language (TEFL) teacher trying to pull her life back together after a “teeny … Read More

Blithe Spirit heads to Sky Cinema for January release

Blithe Spirit, starring Dan Stevens, will be released by Sky Cinema in January.

The film, which is based on the play by Noël Coward, co-stars Judi Dench (Skyfall, Victoria & Abdul), Leslie Mann (Blockers, The Comedian) and Isla Fisher (Greed, … Read More