12 things Jurassic Park teaches us about bad project management

We look back at the original Jurassic Park to examine why InGen’s dinosaur theme park was doomed to failure.Read More

Digital growth to drive UK entertainment and media market to £66.6bn by 2019

The growth of digital video, music and other meda is expected to drive the UK entertainment market to a total worth of over £60 billion by 2019.

A new report from PwC forecasts the UK entertainment and media market will … Read More

Netflix TV binge review: Sense8 (Episodes 4, 5 6)

“Art is like religion – to the believers, it is everything.”

Netflix’s blurb suggests that Sense8’s protagonists, The Sensates, are people whose telepathic gifts are the one thing keeping them alive. However, Episodes 4, 5, & 6 suggest quite the … Read More

VOD film review: Son of a Gun

Ewan McGregor goes bad guy for this tense, smart, gripping thriller.Read More

Short film review: Black Angel (1980)

Director: Roger Christian Cast: Tony Vogel Runtime: 25 mins Watch Black Angel online in the UK: YouTube / iTunes

Every Sunday, we review a short film available on VOD. We call it Short Film Sunday. This week, with the news … Read More

Top TV shows and films on BBC iPlayer (7th June 2015)

The BBC can sometimes provide a mixed bag of TV offerings. The recent premiere of Sun Trap, a purported comedy starring Bradley Walsh and Kayvan Novak, is a prime example: the sitcom sees Novak’s undercover investigator parade a range of … Read More

Amazon Prime UK TV review: Outlander Episode 16 (Season 1 finale)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

And so we reach the end of Outlander Season 1, a show that has been uneven – mostly in a good way – in its attempts to bring Diana Gabaldon’s historical fantasy romance to the screen. … Read More

The Apartment: A rom-com ahead of its time

Whether making films about writers, detectives, playboys or pilots, before 1960, director Billy Wilder was as enamoured with Hollywood glamour as the rest. Fresh as he was from the veritable romp that was Some Like it Hot, Wilder’s long-time collaborator … Read More

VOD film review: Listen Up Philip

Obnoxious, awkward and highly, highly amusing. Read More

Amazon Prime TV review: Halt and Catch Fire Season 1

With Halt and Catch Fire Season 1 to 4 departing Amazon Prime on 16th October 2020, we boot up the first season of AMC’s computer drama.

Halt and Catch Fire: an early computer command that forced all instructions to compete … Read More