Sundance: Amazon snaps up The Big Sick in double-digit deal

Amazon has snapped up The Big Sick in one of Sundance Film Festival’s biggest ever deals.

The online giant, which made a splash at Sundance last year with the acquisition of Oscar favourite Manchester by the Sea, is back in … Read More

Witless Season 2 arrives on Wednesday

Witless returns for Season 2 this Wednesday, as Leanne and Rhona go on the run again.

The BBC Three comedy follows Leanne (Kerry Howard – Him & Her) and Rhona (Zoe Boyle – Downton Abbey), two ordinary flatmates whose lives … Read More

This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (21st January 2017)

Heard of BFI Player? Well, there’s also BFI Player+, a subscription service that offers an all-you-can-eat selection of hand-picked classics.

Every Friday, Mark Kermode highlights one of the collection’s titles with a video introduction. This week, it’s Face. Antonia … Read More

New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK (21st January 2017)

MUBI headed to France this week, partnering once again with UniFrance and My French Film Festival to share a rich and exciting selection of new films from across the Channel. (You can see the full festival line-up here.) MUBI hand-picked … Read More

Trailer: Netflix’s I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore premieres at Sundance

I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore is a phrase you can expect to hear a lot this weekend, as Netflix’s film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last night.

While that would ordinarily be enough to awake … Read More

Amazon attempts to woo Sundance filmmakers with $100k bonus

As the Sundance Film Festival gets underway, the online giants are already out in force to find the next Manchester by the Sea. Both Netflix and Amazon have already made their first acquisitions ahead of the festival, but while the … Read More

Strong 2016 sees Netflix near 100 million subscribers

A strong 2016 has left Netflix eyeing up 100 million subscribers at the start of the new year.

In the fourth quarter of 2016, the subscription giant added 7.05 million new subscribers globally, outperforming its own expectations of 5.2 million … Read More

Portrait of the artist as a trapped man: Mu Xin documentary Dream Against the World available to watch online

Dreaming Against the World, a documentary about imprisoned artist Mu Xin, is now available to watch online.

Film streaming platform FilmDoo has teamed up with directors Timothy Sternberg and Francisco Bello (the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated filmmakers behind the 2007 short … Read More

Youtube to premiere This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous at Sundance

YouTube is expanding its presence at Sundance Film Festival this year, with the premiere of This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous leading the way.

A year ago, the video site took to the festival to promote its first slate of original … Read More

Roku releases revamped mobile app

New year, new app for Roku users, as the streaming platform launches a revamped mobile interface for 2017.

Roku is increasingly stepping up its living room presence, teaming up with manufacturers in the US to make smart TVs with its … Read More