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VOD film review: Me Him Her
January 3, 2017 | Mark HarrisonA compassionate but overwhelmingly trippy romcom.Read More
VOD film review: A Story of Children and Film
January 2, 2017 | David FarnorPlayful, poetic and profound filmmaking.Read More
UK TV review: The Grand Tour Namibia Special (Episode 7 and 8)
January 2, 2017 | David FarnorPathetic attempts at controversial banter. Celebrity Braincrash. The American and his one joke. Halfway through the first season and the problems with Amazon’s motoring show are clear. The idea of returning to the old Top Gear special format for a … Read More
Amazon UK TV review: The Man in the High Castle Season 2 (Episodes 6 to 10) – spoilers
January 2, 2017 | Ian WintertonWarning: This contains spoilers. Not caught up with The Man in the High Castle Season 2? Read our spoiler-free review of the opening episode here.
The breathtaking revelation of a different Juliana living in our version of 1962 was the … Read More
Catch up TV review: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Maigret’s Dead Man, The Arrivals, A Big LEGO Christmas, Cooke & Moore’s Missing Sketches
January 1, 2017 | David FarnorWhat’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
This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (1st January 2017)
January 1, 2017 | VOD NewsHeard 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, following Mark’s highlighting … Read More
Walter Presents kicks off 2017 with Norwegian thriller Acquitted
January 1, 2017 | VOD NewsWalter Presents is kicking off 2017 with Norwegian thriller Acquitted.
All 4’s online channel, dedicated to foreign-language TV shows from around the world, Walter Presents launched in the UK in January 2016. Since then, the site has given us shows … Read More
Game of Thrones most pirated show of the year
January 1, 2017 | VOD NewsGame of Thrones is once again the most pirated TV show of the year.
Figures from TorrentFreak show that HBO’s fantasy epic took the crown for the most torrented TV series on the web in 2016, the fifth year … Read More
New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK (1st January 2017)
January 1, 2017 | VOD NewsNot getting your arthouse fix from Netflix? Wish there were more indie films on Amazon Prime Video? Every week, we round up the new releases on MUBI, the subscription VOD service that hand-picks new and old classics from around the … Read More
Netflix UK TV review: Maigret’s Dead Man
January 1, 2017 | David FarnorMaigret serves up a stylish second mystery that’s sadly lacking in substance.Read More















