The Weekly MUBI Digest | 20th January

This week’s MUBI Digest comes from France with love, as MUBI once again teams up with My French Film Festival for a selection of French cinema, both new and old, as the unique, month-long event showcases features and shorts online … Read More

VOD film review: Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge

This attempted reboot of the Pirates franchise is too anchored in its own past.Read More

What’s leaving Netflix UK in January / February 2018?

January, a month for making and breaking New Year’s Resolutions. Fortunately, Netflix is making some resolutions easy at the start of the year, with a host of titles racing to the top of your watchlist, if you want to catch … Read More

Netflix UK film review: The Final Year

Greg Barker’s engaging and respectful doc about Obama’s final year in the White House is blindsided by its depressing ending.Read More

VOD film review: Jumanji (1995)

The original Jumanji is a Capra-esque fantasy disguised as a VFX-laden creature feature.Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Riverdale Season 2, Episode 10

Warning: This contains spoilers for Episode 10 of Riverdale Season 2. Not seen Riverdale? Catch up with spoiler-free review of the first three episodes.

Riverdale is back after its mid-season break and, although life goes in the wake of … Read More

MyFrenchFilmFestival launches 2018 line-up

Today sees the launch of MyFrenchFilmFestival 2018, the world’s leading online festival dedicated to the best of new and old French cinema. After a record turnout in 2017, the global event returns for a selection of both feature films and … Read More

Kristen Wiig to star in Reese Witherspoon’s Apple comedy series

Kristen Wiig has signed on to star in Apple TV’s new comedy series from Reese Witherspoon.

The online giant’s TV arm has only been in business for a few months, but Apple is coming out swinging, swiftly assembling a line-up … Read More

BBC Three bags Romper Stomper series

BBC Three has bagged the UK rights to Australian series ‪Romper Stomper‬.

The six-part contemporary thriller is set 25 years on from Geoffrey Wright’s acclaimed 1992 film of the same name‪ and follows a new generation of far right … Read More

Amazon cancels One Mississippi, I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Johnson

Amazon has cancelled One Mississippi, I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Johnson.

All three comedy series have reportedly been dropped by the online giant, as it continues its move towards producing bigger titles in hope of reaching a more mainstream … Read More