Catch up TV review: Taskmaster: Champion of Champions, Bancroft, Word of the Year 2017

What’s available on-demand on Freeview? Keep up-to-date with our weekly catch-up TV column, including reviews of shows on ITV Hub, new releases on All 4 and a guide to My5.

(For BBC TV reviews and round-ups, see our weekly Best … Read More

Great Scott! The dazzling design of Back To The Future Part II

This messier sequel struggles to contain its own boundless imagination.Read More

12 Days of Netflix: The Magic Snowflake

Director: Luc Vinciguerra Cast: Nathan Simony, Benoît Allemane, Vincent Grass Watch The Magic Snowflake online in the UK: Netflix UK

We unwrap a different Christmas film from Netflix’s dubious seasonal selection every day. For 12 days. It’s the 12 Days … Read More

Superhero Sundays: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

Batman’s first feature-length animated adventure delivers thrilling action, an intriguing mystery and surprising emotion.Read More

Feud: Bette and Joan review: Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange are on blistering form

Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange are on blistering form in this gorgeously watchable drama. Read More

The Weekly MUBI Digest | 16th December

This week sees MUBI premiere its latest exclusive acquisition – Ava – but before then, there’s a typically diverse selection to handpick gems from, be it Alain Gomes’ stunning Felicite (read our full review here), the shorts by Colombia-born, France-based … Read More

Apple orders space drama from Ronald D. Moore

Apple is preparing to put a rocket under its new video push, with the order for a new space drama from Ronald D. Moore.

Moore, who is something of a sci-fi legend after creating the Battlestar Galactica reboot, first cut … Read More

Matt Charman and George Clooney team up for Netflix Watergate series

George Clooney and Matt Charman are teaming up for a new Netflix series about Watergate.

The very name conjures up spectres of US politics past, from the shocking details of the 70s scandal to their various incarnations on the big … Read More

VOD film review: Beyond Skyline

Director: Liam O’Donnell Cast: Frank Grillo, Bojana Novakovic, Iko Uwais Certificate: 15 Watch Beyond Skyline online in the UK: Netflix UK / Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Rakuten TV / Google Play / Sky Store

As a … Read More

12 Days of Netflix: Pottersville

Bigfoot steps in something even bigger in this bizarre small-town confection that has to be seen to be believed.Read More