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Freedive: IMDb launches free US streaming site
January 12, 2019 | David Farnor
IMDb 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 Farnor
Netflix 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 Farnor
MUBI 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 Farnor
A 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 Bitel
Trevor 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 Farnor
A 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 Farnor
Reign 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
Trailer: Netflix exposes Fyre failings in new documentary
January 11, 2019 | David Farnor
Netflix will expose what went wrong with the Fyre music festival this January with a new documentary.
Simply called Fyre, the film offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the infamous unraveling of disastrous event. Created by Billy McFarland and rapper … Read More
Trailer: Netflix’s Velvet Buzzsaw drops this February
January 10, 2019 | David Farnor
Netflix’s Velvet Buzzsaw drops this February, after ripping up Sundance.
The horror film, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Zawe Ashton, Rene Russo, Tom Sturridge, Toni Collette and John Malkovich, is set in the contemporary art world scene of Los Angeles … Read More
