VOD film review: Ran (Akira Kurosawa)

Kurosawa’s epic adaptation of King Lear is ambitious, audacious and breathtaking cinema.Read More

Sky Atlantic to air Alan Partridge state-of-the-nation documentary

After the success of the second season of his Mid Morning Matters, Alan Partridge is bouncing back again to make a new documentary for Sky Atlantic.

The one-off, one-hour special, titled Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle, will see him attempt to … Read More

Fortitude Season 2: First look images

Amid the usual swirl of rumours, cast announcements and cancellations, one piece of TV news may have passed you by this week: our first look at Season 2 of Fortitude.

Sky’s original Arctic crime drama, part Broadchurch and part X-Files, … Read More

NFK TV review: VeggieTales in the House

Netflix for Kids, VODzilla.co’s Geneva Conventions-defying monthly column, where an adult with no children works his way through the kids’ catalogue on Netflix UK. With Easter just passed, we turn our eye to television, as we check out the Christian … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Maigret Sets a Trap

Rowan Atkinson’s Maigret tries too hard to sell its French-ness in this uneven Paris-set crime drama.Read More

UK TV review: Daredevil Season 2 (Episode 12 and 13)

Warning: This contains spoilers – if you haven’t seen episodes one to four, read our spoiler-free review of Daredevil Season 2.

As Season 2 of Daredevil heads into its concluding episodes, it’s clear that the showrunners are prepared to leave … Read More

UK TV recap: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 1, Episode 5 (Fail-Safe)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

Last week’s episode of Legends of Tomorrow (effectively the first half of a two-parter) stumbled a little, as it split up the team and had them all doing not-very-interesting things alongside the main plot. This week’s … Read More

This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (2nd April)

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 Prick Up Your … Read More

New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK this week (2nd April 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

Sky launches new app for kids

Sky has launched a new app for kids, as the competition for young eyeballs continues to increase.

Sky’s app was announced last year, just after YouTube launched its own kids’ platform and Amazon introduced its own child-friendly tablet and accompany … Read More