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Best Christmas movies to watch on Netflix
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Best Christmas movies to watch on Netflix

Christmas is fast approaching and Netflix UK has a huge library of films to help you scratch that festive itch. Whether you’re looking for a romantic comedy or a children’s animation, Netflix has its subscribers covered this holiday season. In recent years, the streaming service has branched out into producing its own original Christmas films,...

Who is the new voice of Missy on Big Mouth?
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Who is the new voice of Missy on Big Mouth?

Big Mouth returned for its fourth season on Friday (4 December), with a host of new actors lending their voices to the show for the first time. First airing in 2017, Netflix’s animated comedy series follows a group of teenagers as they struggle with puberty. The show is centred around Nick (Nick Kroll) and Andrew...

Wonder Woman 1984 review: DC’s latest is a piece of hopeful, uncynical filmmaking
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Wonder Woman 1984 review: DC’s latest is a piece of hopeful, uncynical filmmaking

Dir: Patty Jenkins. Featuring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen. 12A, 151 mins We’ve seen superheroes break the fourth wall before. Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds’s anarchic mutant, loved to look down the lens and deliver something off-colour. It was all meant to be one, big in-joke – an acknowledgement of...

Christmas 2020: The 10 best films to watch on TV and stream
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Christmas 2020: The 10 best films to watch on TV and stream

With outdoors activity more or less cancelled this Christmas, films fill the festive gap more than ever. Luckily for us, there’s a vast array of options at your disposal this December. There’s also something for everyone – from family movies for the kids to serial killer thrillers for your weird cousins, straight through to the...

Love Actually: Richard Curtis kept big secret from Martine McCutcheon ahead of film
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Love Actually: Richard Curtis kept big secret from Martine McCutcheon ahead of film

Richard Curtis has revealed he kept a big secret from Martine McCutcheon before filming Love Actually. McCutcheon appears in the film as Natalie, the love interest of Grant’s Prime Minister character, and ahead of the film, she admits to feeling like she “wasn’t thespian or highbrow enough to be a part” of the high-profile cast....

Bridgerton: Everything you need to know about Shonda Rhimes’ historical romance series for Netflix
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Bridgerton: Everything you need to know about Shonda Rhimes’ historical romance series for Netflix

The period drama is the first series to come out of a multi-year development deal between Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes and Netflix. Bringing the drama of Shondaland series such as Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder to Regency-era London, Bridgerton is an eight-part show based on Julia Quinn’s series of historical romance...

Tiny Pretty Things reviews: Netflix young adult drama criticised for ‘obscenely unnecessary’ number of sex scenes
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Tiny Pretty Things reviews: Netflix young adult drama criticised for ‘obscenely unnecessary’ number of sex scenes

Netflix’s new show Tiny Pretty Things has underwhelmed fans and disappointed critics. The young adult drama – which debuted on the streaming platform yesterday (14 December) – is an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton. Tiny Pretty Things follows Neveah (Kylie Jefferson) as an elite ballerina who...

Lord Alan Sugar pays tribute to ‘long suffering’ brother who has died of coronavirus
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Lord Alan Sugar pays tribute to ‘long suffering’ brother who has died of coronavirus

The business tycoon and star of BBC show The Apprentice shared the news with his followers on Twitter and Instagram. “Today I lost my long suffering brother Derek, another victim of Covid which added to his underlying health issues,” Sugar wrote. ‘He was a life time passionate Spurs supporter,” he added. Sugar, 73, called it...