MUBI Weekly Digest | 24th April 2021

MUBI sees out April in style with Curtis Hanson’s gorgeous LA Confidential, winner of 2 Oscars in 1998, and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s visually stunning The Revenant, winner of 3 Oscars in 2016. But it’s not all glitzy awards winners, with … Read More

Kinoteka Film Festival goes online for 2021

The Kinoteka Polish Film Festival is returning this spring and will once again play out online.

The festival has teamed up with some of the country’s leading cultural institutions (BFI, ICA, POSK Cinema, Riverside Studios, Theatre Times, Second Run … Read More

Streaming Shakespeare: 11 best modern movie adaptations

When it comes to the Bard, a little bit of iambic pentameter can go a long way for modern audiences. Over the decades, though, there has been no end of versions that have brought Shakespeare’s work into contemporary settings to … Read More

What’s coming soon to Disney+ UK in May 2021?

Disney’s Netflix rival is here, serving up Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar originals, along with a post-modern revamp of High School Musical and almost every episode of The Simpsons.

Disney+ stepped up its streaming game in March with the second … Read More

Watch: New trailer for Netflix thriller Oxygen

No escape. No memory. 90 minutes to live. That’s the starting point for Oxygen, Netflix’s new survival thriller.

Starring Mélanie Laurent and Mathieu Amalric, the film follows a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic unit with no recollection of … Read More

Streaming Shakespeare: Which theatre plays can I watch online?

With Friday 23rd April marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, there’s never been a better time to boot up the internet and see one of his plays performed. While there are more film adaptations of his work in heaven … Read More

Breaking Boundaries: David Attenborough and Johan Rockström team up for Netflix documentary

David Attenborough is returning to Netflix for a new documentary in collaboration with Johan Rockström.

Founder of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and Professor in Earth System Science at the University of … Read More

What’s coming soon to Shudder UK in May 2021?

Who says springs can’t be scary? Certainly not Shudder, which has a bumper crop of bumps in the night in store for May, including the trippy Fried Barry, the haunting and moving Relic, the latest from Neil Marshall and horror-comedy … Read More

Google Play shifts to YouTube for smart TV and Roku

Google Play is shifting to YouTube for a small number of smart TVs and Roku devices.

Google Play has long been the home for movie and TV show rentals and purchases as well as games and apps. A dedicated Google … Read More

22 vs Earth: Soul spin-off short film lands on Disney+ this April

Ever wonder what new soul 22 has against Earth in Disney and Pixar’s Soul? A new short from Pixar Animation Studios aims to find out. Called 22 vs Earth, the spin-off animation revisits the skeptical soul long before she ever … Read More