Trailer: Tamara Jenkins’ Private Life set for October Netflix release

“We’re doing everything we can short of kidnapping to start a family,” says Richard (Paul Giamatti) in the trailer for Private Life, and it sets the tone for Tamara Jenkins’ heartfelt, tender comedy about the painful hope of trying to … Read More

VOD film review: Scanners (1981)

David Cronenberg’s coolly clinical sci-fi Scanners is mind-blowing art for outsiders.Read More

VOD film review: Reinventing Marvin

Finnegan Oldfield and Julies Porier deliver compelling performances in Anne Fontaine’s affecting but occasionally pretentious coming-out story.Read More

Why you should catch up with A Discovery of Witches

This lavish piece of supernatural pulp is enjoyably atmospheric telly.Read More

Channel 5 cancels Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother

Channel 5 has officially cancelled Big Brother and Celebrity Brother.

The reality series, which took its name from the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, is one of the longest-running shows on UK TV. First beginning back in 2000, presented by … Read More

VOD film review: Lucky

Harry Dean Stanton delivers a wonderful penultimate performance in this delightful, low-key indie drama.Read More

Interview: John Carroll Lynch talks Lucky and Harry Dean Stanton

This weekend marks the release of one of the last screen performances by legendary character actor Harry Dean Stanton. A meditation on mortality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection, Lucky follows the spiritual journey of its eponymous hero, a cantankerous, self-reliant … Read More

Netflix unveils trailer for animated series Hilda

Netflix is targeting older kids this September, with its new animated series Hilda – and a new trailer promises something really quite charming.

A production of Silvergate Media, the makers of Octonauts, in collaboration with Mercury Filmworks, Hilda transforms the … Read More

Mystery Road TV series heads to BBC Four

BBC Four has bagged the rights to Mystery Road the TV series.

The six-part drama, based on Ivan Sen’s acclaimed feature film, is a crime thriller set against the big landscapes and stunning scenery of Australia.

Produced by Bunya Productions … Read More

VICE box sets arrive on All 4

VICE is coming to All 4. From today, a whole wave of box sets from the youth-focused media company are available to stream on Channel 4’s on-demand platform. The first release of more than 900 hours of VICE’s content, previously … Read More