FrightFest VOD film review: Downhill

Hybrid horror thriller Downhill is “taking a shit on a hill” and seeing what sticks. Not much does.Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Scream Season 2: Episode 9 to 12 (spoilers)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

“Sometimes the people closest to you are the ones who keep the biggest secrets,” says Noah towards the end of Scream’s second season – a sentiment that fuels the whole of MTV’s small-screen adaptation of Wes … Read More

Catch up TV review: The Watchman, Rookies, 500 Questions

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 weekly Best … Read More

UK TV review: The Girlfriend Experience

When Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz’ The Girlfriend Experience first premiered on Starz in America, it aired week by week, as is standard for all new shows on the channel, but Starz also did something they’d never done before: they … Read More

ITV orders second season of Marcella

ITV has ordered a second season of Marcella.

The crime thriller, which was billed as bringing Scandinavian noir to the streets of Britain, is co-created by Hans Rosenfeldt and Nicola Larder (Sky’s development executive on The Tunnel, Lawless, Psychopath Next … Read More

This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (27th 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 This Filthy Earth.

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New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK (27th 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

Miles Ahead: An unconventional biopic with attitude

Kind of blue and effortlessly cool, this unconventional music biopic has attitude to spare.Read More

VOD film review: Kids in Love

This shallow coming-of-ager is like being forced to trawl through the Instagram accounts of the worst people in the world.Read More

VOD film review: Road Games

This slow-burning thriller is a lame game that never leads anywhere satisfying.Read More