An 8-bit guide to Silicon Valley’s brilliance

When Richard and his friends inadvertently create a world-class compression algorithm within their music app, ‘Pied Piper’, while working for Silicon Valley’s big guns, they have to decide whether to sell their work to the man or try and make … Read More

VOD film review: The Duellists

Strong performances and superb visuals make for a quiet, atmospheric directorial debut from Ridley Scott.Read More

MUBI and Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight launch year-long partnership

MUBI is teaming up with Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight to celebrate the very best of world cinema with a year-long showcase of acclaimed directors.

The unprecedented collaboration will see the film festival’s iconic Quinzaine des Réalisateurs – an independent selection of … Read More

Spotify unveils original video slate

Spotify has unveiled its slate of original video programming for 2016.

The music subscription service first entered the video game last year, when it added clips from parters such as Comedy Central to its platform. Now, the company is doubling … Read More

Amazon takes on YouTube with Amazon Video Direct

Amazon is taking on YouTube with Amazon Video Direct, a new service that will let anyone upload a video to Amazon’s streaming platform.

The self-service program will let people upload their own content to Amazon Instant Video, offering it to … Read More

VOD film review: Gold

Director: Thomas Arslan Cast: Nina Hoss, Marko Mandic, Peter Kurth Watch Brave Men’s Blood online in the UK: Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Google Play

The Western has been back in fashion of late, but with it … Read More

Chelsea’s Netflix Talk Show – the trailer, schedule and guest line-up

Chelsea Handler’s new talk show premieres on Netflix on Wednesday 11th May – and it’s anybody’s guess what’s in store.

Promising to “free the talk show”, the series – cunningly titled “Chelsea” – marks a big departure for the time-honoured … Read More

MUBI heads to Cannes with festival retrospective

MUBI is heading to Cannes this year – in more ways than one.

The subscription streaming site, which offers a revolving carousel of titles, each for 30 days a time, has made a name for itself with its curated slate … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Grace and Frankie Season 2

Season 2 of Netflix’s wonderful comedy-drama, Grace and Frankie, kicks off in full swing, as we begin right where Season 1 left off, with Sol (Sam Waterston) facing a moral dilemma of telling his soon-to-be-husband Robert (Martin Sheen) about sleeping … Read More

UK TV review: Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 3 (Oathbreaker)

Warning: This contains spoilers. For more on how to catch up with Game of Thrones, click here.

Could it be said that this episode of Game of Thrones was a little on the dull side?

In terms of anything of … Read More