VOD film review: The LEGO Movie

Everything really is awesome in this hilarious, subversive and endlessly inventive animation.Read More

VOD film review: We Are the Best!

This energetic celebration of identity and rebellion will make you want to start a punk band.Read More

BBC iPlayer hit by technical problems

BBC iPlayer has not been working for some users this weekend as the broadcaster’s website continues to be hit by technical problems.

The issues first became apparent on Saturday morning, when the BBC tweeted that some people were unable to … Read More

VOD film review: I Am Divine

Director: Jeffrey Schwarz Cast: Divine, John Waters Certificate: 15

Initially, it seems like a missed opportunity for an artist as extraordinary as Divine to get a documentary as conventional as I Am Divine – yet, really, would anybody believe the … Read More

VOD TV review: True Blood Season 7 Episode 3 (Fire in the Hole)

As the body count rises thick and fast in the final season of True Blood, it was inevitable that, faced with their own mortality, the show’s characters (and indirectly the show’s writers) would have to contemplate loss. As Season 7 … Read More

UK ISPs, industry and government team up to tackle online piracy

UK ISPs, the government and industry bodies have teamed up to introduce a new campaign to tackle piracy.

The Creative Content UK initiative will begin with an awareness campaign designed to educate the public about legitimate online content services, … Read More

Microsoft shuts down Xbox Entertainment Studios

Microsoft is closing Xbox Entertainment Studios, amid new streamlining plans that will see thousands of employees laid off.

The original content market has become crowded of late. While Netflix and Amazon continue to drive forward new online video projects, everyone … Read More

Amazon to air uncut version of BBC’s Ripper Street Season 3

Amazon will air an uncut version of Ripper Street Season 3 ahead of the BBC’s edited broadcast.

Ripper Street was cancelled after its second season, until Amazon announced that it would resurrect the programme alongside the BBC for Prime Instant … Read More

VOD film review: 20 Feet from Stardom

Morgan Neville’s film about several generations of backing singers is engaging, candid and humming with infectious personality.Read More

UK TV review: Hannibal Season 2, Episode 11 (Ko No Mono)

Across the last few episodes, as the supposedly well-meaning, flawed but ultimately ‘good’ Will Graham slips further and further down the path to his own destruction, you have to wonder what his parents must think of him. From taking some … Read More