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Walter Presents TV review: Framed (Bellicher)
October 13, 2016 | David FarnorWhat is Walter Presents? Click here for everything you need to know about All 4’s new VOD service.
Hitchcockian is the word that springs to mind when watching Framed, the latest TV show to premiere in the UK via All … Read More
First-look Amazon UK TV review: Goliath (spoiler-free)
October 13, 2016 | David FarnorAlready seen Goliath? Read our spoiler-filled review of the whole first season here.
Who doesn’t love a good legal drama? That’s presumably the thinking behind Amazon’s latest original series, Goliath, which was ordered straight to series from Ally McBeal and … Read More
VOD film review: Warcraft: The Beginning
October 13, 2016 | Mark HarrisonDuncan 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
October 12, 2016 | David FarnorFrom 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?
October 12, 2016 | VOD NewsEarlier 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
October 12, 2016 | David FarnorBizarre, 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
October 12, 2016 | VOD NewsShorts 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
October 11, 2016 | David FarnorWarning: 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
October 11, 2016 | VOD NewsHayley 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
October 10, 2016 | David FarnorFrom 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
















