This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (7th May)

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 The Company of … Read More

New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK (7th May 2016)

Not getting your art-house 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

UK TV recap: Arrow Season 4, Episode 19

Warning: This contains spoilers.

It’s always difficult when a show kills off a main character – you have to strike a tricky balance between giving them an appropriate send-off and keeping the wheels of the show spinning more or less … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Marseille (Season 1, Episodes 1 to 4)

Netflix unveiled its latest original series this week: a political drama about betrayal, power and corruption. No, not House of Cards, but Marseille – or House of Cards, but French. How can you tell it’s French? Firstly, the locations. Secondly, … Read More

6 reasons to watch Hoff the Record

Hoff the Record returns this evening on Dave for a second season, continuing the chronicle of David Hasselhoff’s attempts to stage a career comeback. With Season 1 still available to binge-watch on on UKTV Play, here are six reasons why … Read More

Amazon taps Lost and Marco Polo talent for Darkover series

Amazon has tapped Lost and Marco Polo veterans to lead new series Darkover.

Elizabeth Sarnoff (Lost) and Patrick Macmanus (Marco Polo) will write and exec produce the show, which is based on Marion Zimmer Bradley’s books.

The project – one … Read More

Walk This Way delivers new wave of documentaries

The UK may be debating whether to leave the EU, but when it comes to streaming entertainment, we’ve never got on better with our continental cousins: while All 4 is releasing foreign-language TV on its VOD channel Walter Presents from … Read More

VOD film review: Brave Men’s Blood

Director: Olaf de Fleur Johannesson Cast: Darri Ingolfsson, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Zlatko Krickic Certificate: 15 Watch Brave Men’s Blood online in the UK: Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Google Play

Scandinavian crime dramas have … Read More

Silicon Valley Season 3 available to watch online in the UK from 20th April

Silicon Valley Season 2 will be available to watch online in the UK before its TV broadcast.

The show, which is created by Office Space’s Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, is set in the titular high-tech Californian world. … Read More

Hay Festival follows in Shakespeare’s footsteps with live iPlayer streams

Last month, the BBC broke ground with its unprecedented Shakespeare Day Live, a day that saw events marking the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death streaming live on iPlayer and a dedicated pop-up site around the world. Now, the Hay … Read More