Don’t go breaking my heart: The lessons we learnt from rom-coms

Romantic comedies have transcended throughout cinema as one of the most successful and crowd-pleasing of all movie genres. Boy meets girl; boy breaks girl’s heart; boy wins girl back. And while this is a narrative that’s grown completely tiresome and … Read More

While you were streaming: How Netflix embraced the rom-com

In 2017, Netflix released its first romantic comedy under its “Original” banner: A Christmas Prince followed a comforting Hallmark movie formula, with subsequent sequels, The Royal Baby and The Royal Wedding released yearly to make up an Aldovia-based trilogy. Since … Read More

MUBI Library: Your questions answered

This week, MUBI announced what kids today would call “a game-changer”. The subscription streaming service, which has long emphasised its curation of films from around the world, has long operated on a 30-day carousel model, with one new film arriving … Read More

Bank Holiday weekend: Your lockdown entertainment guide

Bank holiday weekends are normally a time for going outside to sunbathe in the park or having a BBQ with friends and family. While you can’t quite do all those things during the coronavirus lockdown – although you can have … Read More

VE Day celebrations: Your online guide

This weekend sees the UK enjoy a rare Bank Holiday Friday to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, the moment when fighting stopped in Europe at the end of World War II. While street parties, parades and concerts would … Read More

Where can I watch the Star Wars movies online in the UK legally?

Whether it’s May the 4th or your own marathon on Disney+, sometimes you just get the urge to binge all of George Lucas’ saga in a row. Well, mostly Episode IV. The question is: where can you watch Star Wars … Read More

May 2020 Watchlist: 25 highlights and UK TV air dates for this month

Netflix. Amazon Prime Video. BBC iPlayer. NOW. Walter Presents. Apple TV+. There’s so much TV to watch these days in so many places that it can be hard to keep up. Every month, we boil down what’s on the box … Read More

The Big Book Weekend: The schedule and how to watch

Festivals may be cancelled this summer, but the Big Book Weekend will be bringing together the literary world online this Bank Holiday weekend, and we’ve got the full schedule, plus how to join in right here.

The three-day virtual festival … Read More

Disney+: Remembering the best forgotten Disney animated movies

The word “underrated” is a hard one to quantify. It’s the lesser used but equally ill-defined brother of that other favourite “overrated”. Shorn of context, neither word really means anything. However, in a canon of 59 films, many of which … Read More

The Big Night In: Catch up with the best bits

Thursday night saw Children in Need and Comic Relief team up for The Big Night In, the Beeb’s answer to last weekend’s One World Together – a chance to get together and keep the public entertaining during lockdown, thank the … Read More