This year's answer to The Babadook isn't quite as adept at trading in metaphorical (and actual) horror, but nonetheless affords welcome depth to the dementia-driven drama.
UPDATED 12-Jan-2021: The new year approaches and it’s an opportunity for Sky to lay out its stall and let its customers get a feel for the content coming their way over the next 12 months.
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Sky Q adds STV box sets for free
by Andy Bassett
Hundreds of hours of STV box sets will now reach new audiences on Sky Q and NOW TV across the UK.
Sky has announced the launch of the Amazon Prime Video app on its Sky Q and NOW TV platforms as well as confirmed that the NOW TV app will appear on select Fire TV devices and Fire TV Edition smart TVs for the first time.
Sky free Christmas gifts include movies, data and calls
by Andy Bassett
Sky is treating its existing customers this Christmas with a bounty of free goodies to help celebrate the festive season, including gratis movies and Premier League matches.
Gibson's edgy twist on Santa steps one bloody foot too far for left-field family entertainment at Christmas, but also treads too gently when it should really embrace its wacky dark fairytale whims.
South African-born Australian filmmaker Seth Larney works some sporadically impressive magic to bring his sophomore sci-fi feature to life with scale beyond its indie budget, telling a competent time travel yarn that, above all, showcases a promising future for this young filmmaker.
Updated 14th Dec: December is always a big month for Sky Cinema and there’s plenty of fancy pants advertising to get people in the Christmas mood as it loads up on anticipated premieres. And Cats.
Writer/director Max Winkler (yes, son of the The Fonz) doesn't quite hit third time lucky with his latest, an indie rehash of familiar boxing/fighter/brother dramas with earnest performances from Charlie Hunnam and Jack O'Connell.
Sky and Entertainment One’s agreement will provide a number of new releases exclusively for Sky Cinema customers as well as a significant trove of library movies.
If Showtime's dramatisation of the life of a religious abolitionist and his ill-fated plan to lead a bloody capture of the US arsenal doesn't sound like it might be a laugh a minute, I think I might be able to change your mind!
Solomon Kane director M.J. Bassett, after her recent tour on Altered Carbon, heads to Africa for Megan Fox's low budget Tears of the Sun... with lions.
Xbox Series X and Series S streaming apps confirmed
by Andy Bassett
Microsoft recently posted a blog article confirming the home entertainment streaming apps that will be available for its latest consoles and the list includes the Disney+ streaming service, Apple TV, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
Sky hit a rich vein in October with original programming including Brave New World, Riviera S3 and The Undoing, along with several movies acknowledging UK Black History Month. The spate of high profile films and new Sky series looks to continue into November.
After the extreme success of Big Little Lies (well, the first season anyway), it was only a matter of time before some of BLL’s key players reunited to bring us another look at the sordid and murderous lives of society’s elite.
Back to the Future's Robert Zemeckis remakes Roald Dahl's The Witches with Anne Hathaway for HBO Max, releasing it just in time for a Halloween Premium Rental.
Tom Berenger surprises with a thoughtful, character-driven antithesis to larger-than-life revenge/survival thrillers like Rambo: Last Blood, affording something a little bit different in this low budget, small scale indie flick.
Aldous Huxley's classic 1932 novel, Brave New World, gets a lavish update for the post-internet generation, but it's not particularly brave nor all that new.
Showtime’s two-part drama based on James Comey’s memoir, ‘A Higher Loyalty’ comes to UK screens. And we have the best screens in the UK. The best. Really. No one has better screens than me.
After a modestly diverting first season, Spectrum's flagship vehicle, the Bad Boys spin-off LA's Finest, quickly falls apart, finding itself lost in a sophomore year that clearly nobody involved expected would ever be greenlit.
Kevin Bacon reunites with his Stir of Echoes writer/director David Koepp for some creepy supernatural thrills in this Blumhouse production about a family trapped in a house that just won't let them go.
Sky brings a couple of pieces of original content for October - a retelling of a family favourite and a high profile limited series based on the writings of Aldous Huxley. And there’s plenty of returning TV shows and new movie premieres too.
Bushwick directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion turn in an absolute gem of an indie thriller with teen Lulu Wilson on fabulous, fiery form up against a surprisingly imposing Neo-Nazi Kevin James.
Dennis "Utopia" Kelly's latest is another combination of horror, psychological thriller and comedy-drama, imbued with atmosphere and dread in a gloriously troubling way.
From creators Misha Green and Jordan Peele comes the most inventive, fun and devastatingly realistic depiction of cosmic horror and civil rights ever seen on TV... you know, compared to the slew of other race conscious, slimy monster shows.
As summer fades and with autumn just around the corner, Sky Cinema still has a couple of extra, big-gun, tentpole movies from 2019 to treat audiences to.
Jessica Chastain slums it in 2020's answer to Luc Besson's Anna, this week's 4K premium rental of choice - mostly because there is nothing else - if you don't want to risk going out to see Tenet.
The legendary Mark "Crying Freeman" Dacascos capitalises on his belated big break in John Wick 3 with this committed, small-scale indie take on Cruise's Collateral.
Conveniently sharing the name with Russia's recently announced Covid vaccine, Sputnik may actually be one of those rare movies which will benefit from a delayed release, and is an impressively atmospheric indie debut.
Procedurals used to be a dime a dozen, but now it thankfully takes something extra to keep these episodic shows going, with Prodigal Son afforded a hint of Sherlock/Hannibal secret sauce in the Tom Payne/Michael Sheen lead duo.