Netflix UK film review: Johnny Guitar

Director: Nicholas Ray Cast: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge Certificate: PG Watch Johnny Guitar online in the UK: Netflix UK

  A favourite of French New Wave icon François Truffaut, Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray’s visually striking, female-headed western, confounded … Read More

Patrick Osborne to direct animated fantasy for Netflix

Oscar-winning director Patrick Osborne is heading to Netflix for his next project, an animated fantasy adventure.

Osborne is a veteran of the animated industry, previously working at Disney on projects including Bolt, Tangled and Wreck-It Ralph. He was head of … Read More

Sky takes on Netflix as it steps up original content spend for 2018

Sky is stepping up its competition with Netflix, as the broadcaster plans to increase its spend on original content for 2018.

Group Chief Executive Jeremy Darroch’s pledged earlier this year to increase investment in original productions by 25 per cent, … Read More

Sky unveils new trailer for Jez Butterworth’s Britannia

While it may seem a little soon to talk about Christmas, Sky has just given us one very good reason to already be talking about January: Britannia, its new original series from Jez Butterworth

The epic drama follows the Roman … Read More

UK TV review: The Walking Dead Season 8, Episode 6 (The King, The Widow and Rick)

This is a spoiler-free review. Read on below for additional, spoilery notes – plus how to watch online.

Things have been slowing down a little since the blistering opening of The Walking Dead’s eighth season and The King, The Widow … Read More

VOD film review: In a Valley of Violence

Ti West tackles the Western with entertaining, if uneven, results.Read More

VOD film review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Luc Besson’s vibrant, miscast space opera is very weird and not quite as wonderful.Read More

UK TV review: Supergirl Season 3, Episode 6

Supergirl’s muddled flashback episode doesn’t do justice to its main characters.Read More

UKTV Play adds voice search support on Amazon Fire TV

UKTV has become the first broadcaster in the UK with voice-activated universal search on Amazon Fire TV.

Viewers can now search for shows from UKTV by speaking into their Amazon Fire TV Stick, and once they’ve found what they’re looking … Read More

Amazon and Funny or Die team up for The Rose Parade live-stream

  Amazon and Funny or Die are teaming up to live-stream The Rose Parade in California for the New Year.

Cord Hosenbeck and Tish Cattigan will host the event, which takes place in Pasadena. ‪F‬unny Or Die will produce the … Read More