Johnny Depp plays Donald Trump in surprise spoof biopic

Johnny Depp playing Donald Trump is the kind of phrase you expect to read during awards season, especially at a time when Adam McKay is tackling the housing and banking crisis in the Oscar-nominated The Big Short. But this is … Read More

The Lobster available to watch online in UK with exclusive special features

The Lobster is now available to watch online in the UK with a host of exclusive special features on We Are Colony.

Yorgos Lanthimos’ surreal comedy, which stars Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, John C Reilly and Ben Whishaw, is set … Read More

Netflix nabs international rights to Hitler satire Look Who’s Back

Netflix has nabbed the international rights to Hitler satire Look Who’s Back.

The film was released in Germany last year, where it took around $22 million at the box office. Now, the streaming giant has swooped in to get the … Read More

Netflix releases trailer for The Characters

Netflix has released the trailer for new comedy series The Characters.

The streaming giant has made a concerted effort to establish itself as the go-to VOD site for comedy, with a range of exclusive stand-up specials (including, now, Brits Jimmy … Read More

My French Film Festival: The 2016 VOD line-up

My French Film Festival has returned for a sixth year this February, bringing a host of new French movies into your living room without the hassle of travelling to France or walking a crowded red carpet.

The festival, organised by … Read More

Idris Elba bags Best Actor at Evening Standard Awards

Idris Elba bagged the Best Actor prize for his role in Beasts of No Nation at the London Evening Standard British Film Awards.

The awards, which took place in the UK capital last night, put Netflix’s first original feature film … Read More

Trailer: Netflix to serve up documentary Cooked in March

Netflix has released a trailer for its new original documentary series, Cooked.

If that doesn’t like Making a Murderer, that’s because it isn’t. But far from a major shift in direction for the streaming site’s non-fiction arm, this new … Read More

iPlayer programmes now available from your iOS home screen

Let it never be said that the BBC iPlayer team isn’t busy. Last year saw the VOD service added to the new Apple TV, with the platform now available on around 10,000 devices in the UK for free, from computers … Read More

Trailer: My Beautiful Broken Brain gets March Netflix release

Netflix has unveiled the trailer for documentary My Beautiful Broken Brain, which is released in March.

The VOD giant has snapped up the rights to the documentary, which is exec-produced by David Lynch and follows the story of Lotje’s Sodderland’s … Read More

New Better Call Saul Season 2 poster, synopsis and character details

Better Call Saul Season 2 is only nine days away, but AMC and Netflix have kept details about the show’s second run largely under wraps. Now, though, that’s beginning to change with our first glimpses of what’s in store.

Netflix … Read More