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Blog posts, opinion pieces, news and features about video on-demand.
IPL’s Mumbai Indians to star in Netflix cricket documentary
April 9, 2018 | David FarnorCondé Nast Entertainment and Netflix are teaming up take on the world of cricket.
While live sports isn’t part of the streaming giant’s game-plan, sports documentaries are its new star player, able to draw in a new demographic while reinforcing … Read More
Walter Presents lines up Lifeline for 15th April premiere
April 9, 2018 | David FarnorWalter Presents is returning to Spain for its next box set, with heart-stopping thriller Lifeline arriving this April.
From the makers of Locked Up, the medical thriller is set to get hearts racing, as it tempers poignant themes of morality … Read More
VOD film review: Do You Trust This Computer?
April 8, 2018 | David FarnorThis alarmed documentary is an eye-opening and thought-provoking watch.Read More
Explained: What the EU portability rules mean for Netflix, Amazon and Brexit
April 8, 2018 | David FarnorThe start of this month introduced a major change for the way you watch your favourite shows when travelling across Europe.
What is it?
The Regulation on the Portability of Online Content Services is the new EU law that … Read More
Trailer: I Am Not an Easy Man sees Netflix flip gender roles
April 7, 2018 | David FarnorNetflix is turning gender roles on its head for its latest original film, I Am Not an Easy Man.
The film sees a shameless chauvinist gets a taste of his own medicine when he wakes up in a world dominated … Read More
VOR: Alessandro Camon to adapt Russian mafia thriller
April 7, 2018 | David FarnorOscar nominee Alessandro Camon has been hired to adapt Russian mafia thriller VOR for Netflix.
The manuscript, written by Rimma Rose, was acquired by Netflix back in 2016, reports Deadline. It charts the rise of Russia’s most powerful mafia commander. … Read More
Mozart in the Jungle cancelled after four seasons
April 7, 2018 | David FarnorMozart in the Jungle has been cancelled after four seasons.
Amazon’s classical music comedy, which is based on Blair Tindall’s memoirs of being a professional musician, follows the politics, art and relationships of the fictional New York Symphony orchestra, which … Read More
The Weekly MUBI Digest | 7th April 2018
April 7, 2018 | David FarnorMUBI marks the start of a new month with a new season dedicated to legendary filmmaker Douglas Sirk. An influence on everyone from Todd Haynes to John Waters, Sirk’s films present a bold, haunting glimpse at the troubled underbelly of … Read More
The best sci-fi movies on Netflix UK
April 7, 2018 | Mark HarrisonScience fiction fans are well served by Netflix UK’s selection of TV series, offering bingeable flights of fancy like Black Mirror and Stranger Things, alongside standards such as Doctor Who, Red Dwarf and Star Trek. For films on the other … Read More
Netflix axes Everything Sucks
April 6, 2018 | David FarnorNetflix has cancelled Everything Sucks after one season.
The 10-episode coming-of-age comedy follows two groups of high school misfits: an A/V club and a Drama club, who collide in 1996 Oregon.
The show is created by Ben York Jones … Read More