Full list: 2015 Oscar winners and where to watch them online

Birdman, not Boyhood. That was the main message to take home from the 2015 Oscars, as Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s meta showbiz comedy swooped in to steal both Best Picture and Best Director away from Richard Linklater’s 12-years-in-the-making favourite.

Birdman ruled … Read More

Where to watch the 2015 Oscar-nominated short films online in the UK

The 2015 Oscar-nominated short films are now available to watch online in the UK.

Shorts are usually a sadly overlooked part of the awards race. While feature films are wheeled out in front of UK cinema audiences earlier every year, … Read More

Happy birthday, YouTube: 10 defining videos from the site’s first decade

YouTube turned 10 years old this weekend. The site now has more than 1 billion users. 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. That’s five hours of video for every second, which means it is humanly impossible … Read More

10 years on: Nathan Barley, the TV show that came true

Exactly 10 years ago today, Nathan Barley premiered on UK TV. Exactly 10 seconds later, you wanted to punch him in the face.

Created by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris, Nathan was a horrible person to behold. He spent … Read More

From worst to best: Woody Allen films ranked (and where to watch them online)

With Magic in the Moonlight now on VOD – and Scoop finally emerging on UK shores almost a decade after it was made – we look back at the director’s 49-year career. From Tiger Lily to Blue Jasmine, here is … Read More

Top 13 TV shows and films on BBC iPlayer

This month marks the release of the BBC’s most ambitious iPlayer release to date: Adam Curtis’ experimental documentary Bitter Lake, which deconstructs modern society, media and power to explain why the big stories that politicians tell us have become so … Read More

Full list of 2015 Oscar nominees – and where you can watch them online in the UK

Netflix has picked up its second Oscar nomination this year, with Virunga up for Best Documentary. The rest of the line-up, though, is a predictable affair of usual suspects, with Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel leading the pack with … Read More

Rumour control: Netflix’s VPN crackdown – and your other VOD options

Netflix has confirmed that is not cracking down on users accessing content available in other countries.

Earlier this month, VPN provider TorGuard reported that Netflix users had started to experience error messages when trying to access content not available … Read More

US TV shows and UK air dates – a 2015 VOD guide

It’s the start of a new year, which usually means one of two things: you’re halfway through The Walking Dead and have developed a weird twitch while waiting for its return post mid-season break, or you’re frantically Googling every 2 … Read More

The Interview VOD release – 5 things we have learned

The Interview has now made more than $31 million from digital downloads and rentals in the US.

Sony’s comedy about two journalists (Seth Rogen and James Franco) hired to kill King Jong-Un prompted a cyber-attack upon the distributor by hackers … Read More