The MUBI Weekly Digest | 14th September 2019

MUBI bids farewell to summer with the intensely gripping Plein Soleil, based on Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, and follows it up with a plunge to Terence Davies’ Deep Blue Sea. They kick off a week that continues MUBI’s … Read More

VOD film review: Tolkien

The charms of Nicholas Hoult as Tolkien cannot save this all too expected journey.Read More

Avengers sales surge as Endgame stays top of UK Film Chart

Avengers: Endgame claims a third week at Number 1 on the UK’s Official Film Chart, landing just short of half a million sales in one week, thanks to its release on physical formats – it shifted a massive 494,000 total … Read More

The Spy: A brilliantly taut thriller

Sacha Baron Cohen perfectly inhabits real life spy Eli Cohen in this brilliantly taut and gripping thriller.Read More

Netflix UK film review: Modest Heroes: Ponoc Short Films Theatre

A promising sign of things to come from the emerging Studio Ponoc.Read More

VOD film review: The Fight

Jessica Hynes shines in this low-key portrait of everyday rage that calls for communication and compassion over anger and revenge.Read More

YouTube scraps private messages

YouTube is scrapping its private messaging service to focus more on public sharing.

First introduced in 2017, YouTube Messages allowed users to share videos or short messages with each other, and even a group of up to 30 users. The … Read More

Netflix UK film review: Night Hunter (2019)

This unsubtle, shallow serial killer thriller is a frustrating, often silly watch.Read More

Birders: New documentary flies on to Netflix this September

Bird lovers will flock together this September to watch a new documentary from Netflix, Birders.

The film explores the migration of a diverse number of birds who successfully traverse the US-Mexico border each year, and the bird lovers on both … Read More

Trailer: Leavenworth to premiere on STARZPLAY this October

True crime documentary Leavenworth, exec-produced by Steven Soderbergh, will be released in the UK this October by STARZPLAY.

The STARZ Original five-part docu-series, which has its world premiere at Tribeca TV Festival this Sunday, tells the story of Clint Lorance, … Read More