Transparent takes home first Emmys for Amazon

Transparent has taken home the first ever Emmy Awards for Amazon.

The online retailer has been in fierce competition with Netflix in recent years, as both streaming services seek to produce their own original content.

Netflix has enjoyed … Read More

A guide to all the references in Mad Max: Fury Road

What is Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) exactly? Is it a shady reboot or a proper sequel? It’s best to think of George Miller’s film as neither, and more a high-octane hybrid vehicle built from the parts of the original … Read More

Raindance Web Fest 2015: The full panel line-up

Raindance Web Fest returns this week for another session of screenings, networking, celebrations and seminars. The line-up of web series that will be shown at the festival can be seen here and we’re proud to be part of the Critics’ … Read More

VOD film review: Avengers: Age of Ultron

Marvel’s bloated sequel is too busy joining dots to assemble an entertaining blockbuster.Read More

VOD film review: 52 Tuesdays

A movingly understated drama.Read More

Catch up TV reviews: Resistance, Bear Grylls, Brits Battling Isis

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 … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Doctor Who Season 9, Episode 1 (The Magician’s Apprentice)

This is a spoiler-free review of Episode 1. If you’ve already seen the episode, read on at the end for spoilers and geeky references for old Who fans.

Aside from Season 8’s two-part finale, Doctor Who has focused more on … Read More

Orphan Black Season 3 to premiere on BBC iPlayer

Orphan Black Season 3 will premiere on BBC iPlayer on Wednesday 23rd September.

The Canadian sci-fi series, created by Graeme Manson and John Fawcett, first arrived in the UK back in September 2013, a few weeks after its premiere in … Read More

Netflix nabs global rights to How To Get Away With Murder

Netflix has nabbed the global rights for How to Get Away with Murder.

The show, which is ABC’s highest rated new series from the 2014/15 season, stars Academy Award-Nominee Viola Davis as the brilliant, charismatic and seductive Professor Annalise Keating, … Read More

VOD film review: If I Close My Eyes, I’m Not Here

Director: Vittorio Moroni Cast: Elena Arvigo, Giorgio Colangeli, Vladimir Doda Watch If I Close My Eyes, I’m Not online in the UK: FilmDoo

“If you want to know something, you first must know why you want to know it.” That’s … Read More