Amazon UK TV review: Into the Badlands Season 2, Episode 5

A slower week full of threats, plots, and madness.Read More

What’s leaving Sky and NOW TV in April / May 2017?

With no Game of Thrones until the summer, your spring TV schedule may be seeming a little empty. But now’s the time to fill those nights with The Walking Dead, Legion, High Maintenance and other TV box sets before they … Read More

This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (22nd April 2017)

Heard of BFI Player? Well, there’s also BFI Player+, a subscription service that offers an all-you-can-eat selection of hand-picked classics.

Every Friday, Mark Kermode highlights one of the collection’s titles with a video introduction. This week, it’s Kurosawa’s Ran.

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New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK (22nd April 2017)

MUBI marks Shakespeare’s birthday with a double-bill of the Bard’s work on film, before going on to an equally idiosyncratic triple-bill dedicated to the films of experimental Spanish auteur Jaime Rosales.

Here’s what’s new, coming soon and leaving soon to the subscription streaming service:

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Shudder UK film review: The Crazies (1973)

Putting the “gory” in “allegory”, Romero’s film shows the madness of the Vietnam war in all its viral contagion.Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Girlboss

“Adulthood is where dreams go to die,” says Sophia Amaruso at the start of Girlboss. Netflix’s new series is inspired by the self-starting success of Sophia, an entrepreneur who found financial fortune with her own online shop selling vintage clothes. … Read More

Get your Game of Thrones fix with these new Season 7 photos

As April comes and goes, it’s hard not to notice the Game of Thrones-shaped hole in our lives, as we wait until the summer for the later-than-usual seventh season of HBO’s fantasy epic. The good news? You can still get … Read More

Netflix UK film review: How I Spent My Summer Vacation (Get the Gringo)

Director: Adrian Grunberg Cast: Mel Gibson, Kevin Hernandez Certificate: 15 Watch How I Spent My Summer Vacation online in the UK: Netflix UK / Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / TalkTalk TV / Google Play

Has there ever … Read More

What’s coming soon to Netflix UK in May 2017?

If you thought April was a busy month for Netflix, between Better Call Saul, The Get Down and Mystery Science Theater 3000, wait until May. Fortunately, you won’t have to wait much longer, which means a month of returning Netflix … Read More

Sand Castle: Entertaining and thought-provoking

An entertaining and thought-provoking soldier’s eye view of the 2003 Iraq War.Read More