Amazon TV pilot review: The Tick, I Love Dick, Jean-Claude Van Johnson

Amazon’s 2016 summer season of TV pilots is now here, giving us a taste of three possible new original series for Amazon Prime Video. The deciding factor? The feedback of those who watch it. The good news is that anyone … Read More

This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (20th August)

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 Hands of the … Read More

New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK (20th August 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

Grace and Frankie: Season 2 bloopers

It doesn’t like that long ago that Grace and Frankie returned to our screens for Season 2 – but it does feel like a long time until Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda come back next year for Season 3 of … Read More

VOD film review: Black (2016)

This modern Romeo and Juliet tale is brilliantly made, superbly acted and powerfully moving.Read More

Netflix UK TV review: The Get Down (Part 1, Episodes 2 to 6 – spoilers)

Warning: This contains spoilers. Not seen The Get Down? Catch up with our spoiler-free look at the opening episodes.

Baz Luhrmann’s 1970’s hip-hop origins story follows its feature-length debut with five hour-long episodes, which continue the often reality-inspired struggle the … Read More

VOD film review: 400 Days

Director: Matt Osterman Cast: Caity Lotz, Brandon Routh, Ben Feldman, Dane Cook, Tom Cavanagh, Grant Bowler Certificate: 15 Watch 400 Days online in the UK: Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / TalkTalk TV / Virgin Movies / TalkTalk Player / eir Vision … Read More

What’s leaving Netflix UK in August / September 2016?

Between Stranger Things, Creed, Wolf Hall, Sicario and Brooklyn, you’d be forgiven for not noticing anything else on Netflix UK this month. But every wave of excellent new arrivals comes at the price of having to bid farewell to the … Read More

VOD film review: Almost Holy

The very definition of “hard-hitting documentary”.Read More

VOD film review: Louder Than Bombs

A moving, nuanced family drama exploring life, death and the stories we tell to get through each.Read More