Netflix UK TV review: Black Mirror Season 3, Episode 3 (Shut Up and Dance – spoilers)

Warning: This contains spoilers. For our spoiler-free review of Black Mirror Season 3, click here.

Considering the transatlantic vibe of Black Mirror Season 3 – Bryce Dallas Howard starring in one episode, Dan Trachtenberg and Wyatt Russell being involved in … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Black Mirror Season 3, Episode 2 (Playtest – spoilers)

Warning: This contains spoilers. For our spoiler-free review of Black Mirror Season 3, click here.

Charlie Brooker has explained in the past that the titular Black Mirror is something you see everywhere – the “cold, shiny screen” of your phone … Read More

BBC iPlayer review: HyperNormalisation

Last year, Adam Curtis delivered Bitter Lake directly into the nation’s eyeballs on BBC iPlayer. It was experimental, challenging, ambitious filmmaking. Now, he’s back with HyperNormalisation, an equally epic piece of TV that proves more accessible than his last work, … Read More

Shudder UK film review: Dearest Sister

The ghosts of a nation’s future past make this horror a deftly handled allegory of class and cultural clash.Read More

Netflix and Amazon spend more than CBS, HBO and Turner on content

Netflix and Amazon are now spending more on original programming than CBS, HBO and Turner, a new report reveals.

The research by IHS Markit highlights just how big a part of the streaming landscape original content has become. Indeed, in … Read More

Netflix’s The Ivory Game joins the fight to save African elephants

Netflix is taking us to the frontline in the fight to save the African elephants this winter, with new documentary The Ivory Game.

Recently premiered to acclaim at both the Telluride and Toronto International Film Festivals, the film was just … Read More

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

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 Unrelated, Joanna Hogg’s … Read More

What’s coming soon to Netflix UK in November 2016?

November. A month of cold nights in with the telly. And you can tell we’re back in peak TV season, because Netflix is snapping up US exclusives all over the shop. On top of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season 2 arriving every … Read More

New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK (22nd October 2016)

Not 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

VOD film review: Casa de mi Padre

Casa de mi Padre proves Will Ferrell speaking nonsense in any language is entertaining. Does it make sense? No. Is it funny? Yes. Read More