documentary
Netflix UK film review: Notes on Blindness
July 1, 2016 | Matthew TurnerThis skilfully made, profoundly moving British documentary explores and illuminates the experience of blindness.Read More
Eat the World: Amazon orders original cooking series
June 17, 2016 | VOD NewsAmazon is serving up a new cooking docuseries for Prime Video subscribers.
Eat the World with Emeril Lagasse will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on 2nd September. The show will follow Emeril Lagasse (Emeril Live, Top Chef) and some of … Read More
VOD film review: Fire at Sea
June 10, 2016 | Martyn ConterioA daring and virtuosic exploration of a modern humanitarian crisis.Read More
Netflix UK film review: Janis: Little Girl Blue
May 22, 2016 | David FarnorDirector: Amy J. Berg Cast: Cat Power, Janis Joplin Certificate: U Watch Janis: Little Girl Blue online in the UK: Netflix UK / Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Google Play
It’s always the way. You spend your … Read More
VOD film review: Meet the Patels
April 28, 2016 | David FarnorDirector: Geeta Patel, Ravi Patel Cast: Ravi Patel, Geeta Patel, Champa V. Patel Certificate: PG Watch Meet the Patels online in the UK: We Are Colony
Ravi Patel is looking for love. The problem? He’s Indian-American, which means his whole … Read More
VOD film review: I Am Belfast
April 8, 2016 | David FarnorDirector: Mark Cousins Cast: Helena Bereen, Mark Cousins Certificate: U Watch I Am Belfast online in the UK: BFI Player+ / BFI Player / Curzon Home Cinema / iTunes
The words “poetic tribute to the city of Belfast” may not … Read More
Life and Death Row: Love Triangle series to land on BBC Three in April
April 7, 2016 | VOD NewsBBC Three is aiming to out-Serial Serial with its new true crime documentary series, Life and Death Row: Love Triangle, which arrives later this month.
The online channel’s first serialised documentary made exclusively for digital audiences, Love Triangle follows on … Read More
VOD film review: Speed Sisters
March 27, 2016 | David FarnorDirector: Amber Fares Certificate: PG Watch Speed Sisters online in the UK: Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Google Play
Gears crunch. Tyres screech. Engines roar. But behind the wheel? Not Vin Diesel or one of his angry, … Read More
Netflix UK film review: My Beautiful Broken Brain
March 20, 2016 | David Farnor“An exquisite, painful nightmare.” That’s how Lotje Sodderland describes living after a stroke in this astonishing, vivid documentary. My Beautiful Broken Brain follows the 34-year-old’s recovery after her brain haemorrhage in 2011 – and more than lives up to its … Read More
Trailer: Netflix unveils Team Foxcatcher documentary for April
March 16, 2016 | VOD NewsIt’s just over a year since Bennett Miller’s Oscar-nominated Foxcatcher hit UK cinemas and now, Netflix is taking us back behind the ring for more on the wrestling tragedy of the Schultz brothers.
The film uses home video footage and … Read More