BFI Player brings London Indian Film Festival to audiences across UK

Following the Closing Night Gala of the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) with the world premiere of Toba Tek Singh, BFI Player is continuing the festivities online.

The BFI Player has teamed up with the festival to release … Read More

Jon Heder’s Ghost Team gets free Google Play release

Ghost Team, starting Jon Heder, is available to watch online in the UK for free.

The indie comedy, directed by Oliver Irving, who co-wrote the script with Peter Warren, arrives on VOD just as the remake of Ghostbusters hits cinemas. … Read More

Netflix releases main trailer for The Get Down

Within only a few weeks to go until The Get Down struts its streaming stuff, Netlix has released the main trailer for its musical epic.

Chronicling how New York at the brink of bankruptcy gave birth to a new art … Read More

VOD film review: Beasts of the Southern Wild

Director: Benh Zeitlin Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry Certificate: 12 Watch Beasts of the Southern Wild online in the UK: Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Google Play

The whole universe depends on everything fitting together just right. … Read More

Catch up TV reviews: Eden, Friday Night Dinner, Taskmaster

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 … Read More

Robot Wars: A guide to the new series

Robot Wars is back. That’s something you never expected to read in 2016, right? But reboot everyone’s favourite carnival of metallic carnage the BBC has, with six episodes and 40 robots on the cards, it’s bigger and more brutal than … Read More

My5: Channel 5 to launch linear channel based on its VOD service

Channel 5 is turning its on-demand service, My5, into an accompanying linear channel.

The catch-up site replaced Demand5 earlier this year, as part of a rebrand of the whole Channel 5 network. With its range of content from Channel 5, … Read More

Ranked: The 25 best robots from Robot Wars

Robot Wars returns to UK TV screens tonight, 18 years after the show first began. Hosted by Jeremy Clarkson and Philippa Forrester, and later Craig Charles, the show pitted mechanical monsters against each other in the arena to see which … Read More

This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (24th July)

Heard of BFI Player? Well, there’s also BFI Player+, a subscription service that offers an all-you-can-eat selection of around 300 hand-picked classics.

Every Friday, Mark Kermode highlights one of the collection’s titles with a video introduction. This week, it’s Jacques … Read More

Why you should be watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Each episode of this intelligently funny series is a perfectly formed musical in its own right.Read More