VOD film review: Warcraft: The Beginning

Duncan Jones’ surprisingly personal fantasy blockbuster is a characterful but convoluted gambit.Read More

LFF 2016 reviews: Prevenge, Mindhorn, Christine, Dog Eat Dog, Bleed for This

From Netflix’s Black Mirror and Amazon’s originals to MUBI’s Cannes acquisitions and Dogwoof’s live-streaming premiere of Werner Herzog’s Lo and Behold, the 2016 London Film Festival is embracing VOD like never before. We head to Leicester Square to check out … Read More

Amazon Video Direct: An important new platform?

Earlier this year, Amazon took the unexpected step of launching its own YouTube-like distribution platform, Amazon Video Direct. The service effectively opened up Amazon’s streaming infrastructure to anybody: third party publishers and creators can now use AVD to distribute titles … Read More

Netflix UK film review: Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Bizarre, surprising, hilarious, full of insight and vaguely disturbing, Werner Herzog and the Internet are a match made in cyber-heavenRead More

All 4: Shorts coming soon to Channel 4’s VOD service in October 2016

Shorts continue to be a central part of Channel’s VOD service, All 4. Following the premiere of the rebooted Trigger Happy as a series of new shorts, All 4 switches from funny to scary this month, as it prepares for … Read More

UK TV review: Westworld, Episode 1

Warning: This contains mild spoilers.

“I know things will work out the way they’re meant to,” says Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) in Episode 1 of HBO’s Westworld. The TV series, which is based on Michael Crichton’s sci-fi classic from … Read More

Sky Living snaps up US drama Conviction

Hayley Atwell is coming back to our TV screens in US drama Conviction, which has just been snapped up by Sky Living.

From The Mark Gordon Company and ABC Studios, the show tells the story of Hayes Morrison (Atwell), the … Read More

LFF 2016 reviews: Arrival, La La Land, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki

From Netflix’s Black Mirror and Amazon’s originals to MUBI’s Cannes acquisitions and Dogwoof’s live-streaming premiere of Werner Herzog’s Lo and Behold, the 2016 London Film Festival is embracing VOD like never before. We head to Leicester Square to check out … Read More

First look UK TV review: Ripper Street Season 5

This review is based on the opening episodes of Ripper Street Season 5. Warning: This contains spoilers for Season 1 to 4 of Ripper Street. Already seen Ripper Street? Read our full spoiler-filled review.

It’s been almost exactly four years … Read More

HyperNormalisation releases new clip, featuring a young Donald Trump

A new clip from Adam Curtis’ HyperNormalisation has been released – and it features a very familiar face.

Donald Trump, who is filling our news headlines with his dubious campaign to become US President, has attracted all kinds of reactions … Read More