Netflix and Amazon storm 2015 Emmy nominations

The 2015 Emmy nominations have been announced and Netflix and Amazon are right up there with the big boys.

Game of Thrones leads the overall pack, with a staggering 24 nominations, followed by limited series American Horror Story: Freak Show … Read More

BBC launches summer Pop Art season

This August, BBC Four will leads a week-long celebration of Pop Art, with programmes across BBC Four, radio and online.

Titled “BBC Four Goes Pop”, the week-long celebration of Pop Art will look at the influence of the art movement … Read More

VOD film review: The Salt of the Earth

Directors: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado Cast: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado Certificate: 12

With The Salt of the Earth, Wim Wenders has helmed yet another strong documentary about a fellow artist (see Pina), though this time he’s … Read More

Spike Lee directs Amazon’s first original film

Spike Lee has directed Amazon’s first ever original feature film.

The movie, which has the working title Chi-Raq, marks the streaming service’s first entry into the Hollywood movie biz, after bagging several awards – and Emmy nominations – for original … Read More

VOD film review: The Wonders

A bittersweet and beautiful coming-of-age story.Read More

MUBI launches Chris Marker retrospective

MUBI is holding a Chris Marker retrospective this summer.

One of cinema’s most distinct auteurs, Marker is best known to film fans as the director of La Jetee, one of the most important sci-fi films of all time.

The … Read More

VOD film review: Creep

Creep repeatedly crosses the boundary between silly and sinister to genuinely scary effect.Read More

Original Content: The secret to Netflix’s success

Netflix now has over 65 million members around the world – more people than in the whole of the UK.

The streaming service soared pass the figure in the second quarter of 2015, new figures reveal today, with 3.3 million … Read More

First Look Netflix TV review: BoJack Horseman Season 2

The first few episodes of BoJack Horseman Season 1 started poorly. The title character is a washed-up ex-sitcom star, who starts to work on his memoirs with a spiky writer, all while trying to salvage his career. The jokes were … Read More

Netflix releases full Narcos trailer

Netflix has released the first full trailer for its new original series, Narcos.

The show, which is released next month, chronicles the gripping real-life stories of the infamous drug kingpins of the late 1980s and the corroborative efforts of law … Read More