James Franco: Mainstream cinema’s great contradiction

Dreamer. Stoner. Intellectual pretender. Franco doesn’t just want to have his cake; he wants to have his cake, eat the damn thing whole, and then afterwards produce a hard-hitting, feature-length documentary about the cake’s digestion from a Gender Studies perspective. … Read More

Introducing… the VODzilla.co Fantasy Football League

Superman up front. The Rancor in mid-field. Gandalf in goal. Ok, that’s not how fantasy football works, but if you’re a film fan and a football fan and you like the idea of embarrassing the VODzilla.co team with your superior … Read More

Breaking Bad is the most streamed programme in the UK

Breaking Bad is the most streamed programme in the UK, according to new research.

The study conducted by GfK is the first real insight we’ve had into subscription VOD trends. Indeed, we’ve written before about the lack of data available … Read More

Gotham will be available to watch online on Demand 5

Gotham will be released on Channel 5 in the UK this autumn.

The Warner Brothers series, one of the most anticipated shows of the year, draws on the origin story of a pre-Batman Gotham City and follows young Detective (and … Read More

BBC iPlayer usage up 342 per cent in five years

Usage of BBC iPlayer has soared 342 per cent in the last five years.

The Beeb’s VOD service notched up 260 million views in June 2014, up 9 per cent on the same month last year and up a staggering … Read More

NOW TV Box adds YouTube app

YouTube is now available on the NOW Box.

The device, by Sky, is effectively a branded Roku box, which plugs into your telly and turns it into a smart TV. While the price (£9.99) is attractive, the streaming media device’s … Read More

Breaking: Netflix went down last night, forcing people to actually talk to each other

UK homes were shocked last night went Netflix went down for at least one hour, forcing people to actually talk to each other.

Not in person, of course – on social media. These are some of the best tweets … Read More

The A to Z Guide to BBC’s Luther

With all four seasons of Luther now available on Netflix UK and BBC iPlayer, we provide an alphabetical guide to the mad, bad and dangerous world of John Luther. It’s a bit like a London A-Z, except you can’t really … Read More

Top 9 new releases on Netflix UK — August 2014

It’s the start of a new month, which means a bunch of new releases on Netflix UK. Here are our pick of the bunch:

Stake Land

Director Jim Mickle’s all-fangs-and-no-frills approach gives this vampire flick an effective low-budget edge.

Big … Read More

The BFI Yearbook stats tell us one thing about UK VOD

The UK video on-demand market has grown a whopping 400 per cent in the last decade, according to the latest BFI Yearbook.

The annual report on the British film industry – here, and always worth a read – reveals … Read More