Catch up TV review: Big Zuu’s Big Eats, Ramadan in Lockdown, Reasons to be Cheerful, Mo Gilligan

What’s available on-demand on Freeview? Keep up-to-date with our weekly catch-up TV column, including reviews of shows on ITV Hub, new releases on All 4 and a guide to My5.

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The best classic romantic comedies

The romantic comedy is one of cinema’s most under-appreciated genres, with films dismissed as guilty pleasures or, worse, “chick flicks”. It doesn’t help that the genre can also be highly inconsistent, with movies of all quality levels released over the … Read More

Why you should be watching Schitt’s Creek

This delightful riches-to-rags comedy maintains its sharply written charm until the very end.Read More

Don’t go breaking my heart: The lessons we learnt from rom-coms

Romantic comedies have transcended throughout cinema as one of the most successful and crowd-pleasing of all movie genres. Boy meets girl; boy breaks girl’s heart; boy wins girl back. And while this is a narrative that’s grown completely tiresome and … Read More

Interview: Elizabeth Sankey talks Romantic Comedy and forgetting the term “guilty pleasure”

This month saw the premiere of Romantic Comedy, a documentary from Elizabeth Sankey, one half of the pop duo Summer Camp. Part love letter to the genre and part video essay, it’s a fascinating and insightful tour through the humble … Read More

VOD film review: The County

Rams director Grímur Hákonarson returns with this winning tale of cows, capitalism and rebelling against the system.Read More

While you were streaming: How Netflix embraced the rom-com

In 2017, Netflix released its first romantic comedy under its “Original” banner: A Christmas Prince followed a comforting Hallmark movie formula, with subsequent sequels, The Royal Baby and The Royal Wedding released yearly to make up an Aldovia-based trilogy. Since … Read More

Netflix UK film review: The Lovebirds

Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae are genuinely funny in this formulaic but feel-good rom-com caper.Read More

MUBI Weekly Digest | 23rd May 2020

It’s been a big week for MUBI, which has just launched MUBI Library, a new collection of archive titles that opens up the streamer’s catalogue, with more than 400 former releases now available to stream at any time. You can … Read More

MUBI Library: Your questions answered

This week, MUBI announced what kids today would call “a game-changer”. The subscription streaming service, which has long emphasised its curation of films from around the world, has long operated on a 30-day carousel model, with one new film arriving … Read More