The Weekly MUBI Digest | 18th August 2018

MUBI continues its new season dedicated to Chinese director Lou Ye this week. In a country which regularly censors its most defiant artists, he is one of the foremost cinematic iconoclasts, resisting the nation’s moral and political criteria in the … Read More

The Angel: Netflix unveils trailer for Middle East spy thriller

Netflix has unveiled the trailer for Middle East spy thriller, The Angel.

The film, which based on the New York Times bestselling book The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel by Uri Bar-Joseph, is the true story of Ashraf … Read More

VOD film review: The Guardians

Women work the land during WWI in this slow-burning drama full of heartbreak.Read More

Shudder UK film review: The Battery (2012)

Jeremy Gardner’s feature debut reduces the zombie apocalypse to an edgy buddy pic.Read More

Interview: Mark Cousins on The Eyes of Orson Welles, documentaries and Netflix

Director, critic and curator Mark Cousins returns with essay feature The Eyes of Orson Welles, a documentary, divided into five chapters, that explores the legendary filmmaker through a subject that’s rarely come up in the multiple existing biographical portraits of … Read More

VOD film review: The Eyes of Orson Welles

Mark Cousins connects Orson Welles’ unseen artwork to his life and films in this fascinating, original documentary.Read More

Netflix inks overall deal with black-ish creator Kenya Barris

Netflix has inked an overall deal with black-ish creator Kenya Barris.

The Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated writer and producer has entered into a multi-year deal to produce new series exclusively at Netflix. Under the deal, Barris will write and executive … Read More

Full trailer lands for Iron Fist Season 2

“It’s not a weapon to be held. It’s a weapon to be used.”

The return of Iron Fist is drawing closer, and the full trailer gives us a fresh look at Danny Rand’s second solo outing on Netflix. The series … Read More

First look: Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne in Amazon’s The Aeronauts

Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne are reuniting with Amazon’s new original film, The Aeronauts.

The project, which started filming in the UK this week, was snapped up by Amazon Studios back in 2016 and follows the true story of balloon … Read More

Netflix and BuzzFeed unveils trailer for Follow This

This August sees two online giants team up for a new original series, Follow This.

The partnership between Netflix and Buzzfeed marks one of the streaming service’s first short-form series, as it increasingly looks to corner a space that has … Read More