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Netflix UK film review: Upgrade
January 12, 2019 | David FarnorLeigh Whannell’s inventive body horror fuses old-school revenge with modern tech paranoia.Read More
Netflix UK film review: The American Meme
January 12, 2019 | Matthew TurnerThis entertaining documentary explores the lives of social media superstars, finding intriguing insight and unexpected emotion.Read More
Freedive: IMDb launches free US streaming site
January 12, 2019 | David FarnorIMDb is getting into the streaming game, with the launch of Freedive, a new video channel for the USA.
The free platform is steering clear of Netflix waters and going down the ad-supported route instead of subscription fees. That open-doors … Read More
Choose Your Own Adventure publishers sue Netflix over Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
January 12, 2019 | David FarnorNetflix is facing a lawsuit from the publishers of the Choose Your Own Adventure book series over Black Mirror’s interactive episode, Bandersnatch. The feature-length special, which allows viewers to navigate their way through one young game designer’s descent into paranoid … Read More
The Weekly MUBI Digest | 12th January 2019
January 12, 2019 | David FarnorMUBI begins a retrospective of two greats this week, with both Wim Wenders and Hong Sang-soo under the microscope for the coming month – not a bad way to follow a season of directorial debuts from some of the world’s … Read More
Trailer: Amazon’s Just Add Magic cooks up a third season this January
January 12, 2019 | David Farnor“Don’t let this psych you out, but magic is real…” That’s the sound of Amazon’s most underrated family show returning for a third season, as Just Add Magic whips up another helping this month.
The original live-action kids’ series aimed … Read More
VOD film review: Red Sparrow
January 11, 2019 | David FarnorA dedicated turn by Jennifer Lawrence can’t redeem this uneven, grisly spy thriller.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Interior (2015)
January 11, 2019 | Anton BitelTrevor Juras’ low-budget Canadian debut is an unnervingly absurd tale of illness, alienation and escape into the interior.Read More
The Crimson Rivers: A dark French thriller
January 11, 2019 | David FarnorA compelling cast and strong sense of location make it easy to go with the flow of this dark French thriller.Read More
Trailer: Reign of the Supermen flies onto screens this January
January 11, 2019 | David FarnorReign of the Supermen is flying onto screens big and small in the UK this January, as DC’s Man of Steel hits the cinema and VOD.
The hard-hitting animated feature is the second half of a two-part adaptation of The … Read More