Top TV shows and films on BBC iPlayer (2nd August 2015)

Summer is all about going outside, having ice cream and sitting on the beach… isn’t it? Not if you make the mistake of browsing through BBC iPlayer’s current catalogue.

Ripper Street has returned – resurrected by Amazon, where the full … Read More

UK TV Review: Agent Carter Season 1, Episode 4 (The Blitzkrieg Button)

Already seen Episode 4? Read on for spoilers.

“I can trust the actions of men who don’t respect me more than those who do. At least when they ask for something, they mean it.”

Since the coda of Episode 1, … Read More

More cinemas sign up to Paramount’s ‘nonsense’ early VOD deal

More US cinemas are signing up to Paramount’s landmark early VOD deal, although some big players still dismiss the proposal as nonsense.

Paramount announced its plans to disrupt the current distribution system last month. The agreement with AMC Theatres and … Read More

Top 20 new releases coming soon to NOW TV in August 2015

Disappointed by True Detective? NOW isn’t letting that stop its plans to keep you inside the house this summer, with a wave of promising TV for Entertainment Membership subscribers (£6.99 a month – although if you sign up before 27th … Read More

UK TV review: Hannibal Season 3, Episode 8

Already seen Episode 8? Read on at the bottom for spoilers.

After the event’s of last week’s episode effectively resetting the dramatic arcs of our characters, we can enter a new phase of the Hannibal story – one that actually … Read More

Catch-up TV reviews: Taskmaster, Parks and Recreation, Lookalikes

We catch up with some of the TV shows and films currently available on free VOD services in the UK. (For BBC TV reviews and round-ups, see our weekly Best on BBC iPlayer column.)

Parks and Recreation Season 4 – … Read More

FrightFest to premiere horror shorts on All 4

Film4 FrightFest will premiere six horror short films on All 4 this year.

The festival, which returns to London’s Leicester Square from 27th August, has always placed an emphasis on shorts as part of its showcase of scary talent from … Read More

VOD film review: Sex and the City 2

This shallow sequel is nothing more than a two-hour gimmick.Read More

Netflix UK film review: The Grandmaster

Despite some invigorating fight sequences, Wong Kar Wai’s Ip Man film is sluggish, compromised and unfocussed.Read More

VOD film review: Wild Card

Jason Statham deals an entertaining hand in this fun Las Vegas-set actioner.Read More