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

VOD film review: The Lorax

Compared to other films of Dr. Seuss, The Lorax feels flat and doesn’t amuse.Read More

Art or advert? The LEGO Movie: Product placement without the instruction manual

“If one thing is evident in the product placement industry, it’s that brand cameos in films are on a steady decline.”

That was AdWeek’s conclusion in its 2014 Product Placement Awards. Indeed, there was an average of 9.1 placements per … Read More

Homeland Season 4 trailer arrives

“Happy hunting,” says Saul to Carrie in the Homeland Season 4 trailer, which has just been released.

Happy? When has anyone in Homeland been properly, truly happy? And when has that been Saul or Carrie?

The prospect of a … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Hemlock Grove Season 2

A troubled young girl – caught up in mysterious and dangerous goings on – is torn between her love for the rugged werewolf and the tall, blonde vampire in a town that exudes grunge and rains endlessly. Sound familiar? It … Read More