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

The best films and TV shows on BBC iPlayer (7th February 2016)

We review the best TV shows and films currently available on BBC iPlayer. (Click here to skip to our reviews of the best movies on BBC iPlayer.)

Camila’s Kids Company: The Inside Story

Charting the implosion of one of … 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

New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK this week (6th February 2016)

Not getting your arthouse fix from Netflix? Wish there were more indie films on Amazon Prime Video? Every week, we round up the new releases on MUBI, the subscription VOD service that hand-picks new and old classics from around the … Read More

This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (6th February)

Heard of BFI Player? Well, there’s also BFI Player+, a subscription service that offers an all-you-can-eat selection of hand-picked classics.

Every Friday, Mark Kermode highlights one of the collection’s titles with a video introduction. This week, he picks Highway … Read More

The Good Wife and Suits Season 5 return to UK TV screens

February: the only month worse than January. The weather’s still miserable, work has settled back into routine and the Christmas holidays feel longer ago than ever.

The good news is that fans of legal dramas are back in TV heaven … Read More