16 h. ago ‘Don’t you besmirch Super Mario Bros!’: how video game adaptations became prestige TV

From The Last of Us to Fallout, the days of ropey dramas stemming from consoles is over. Television insiders open up about why high-end shows and gaming now go hand-in-handTwo teenagers plan how to dispatch their latest undead enemy: a kill-shot to the head, or a knife in the side of the neck? One of them throws a glass bottle, distracting their prey. Then she goes in for the kill with all the breezy confidence of a kid playing a video game on easy.It’s a rare moment of playfulness in the second-season opener of The Last of Us, a show that generally takes its storytelling deadly seriously. While the wildly lucrative Minecraft movie strip-mines its IP for laughs, this celebrated HBO series, adapted from the PlayStation titles of the same name, is as focused on taut character drama as the thrills and spills of the zombie genre. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago The new Netflix sitcom with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score that 'everyone has to watch'

North of North was released on Netflix last week and has already received widespread acclaim

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21 h. ago ‘Beautifully, awfully funny’: why Withnail and I is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of comfort movies is a pick for Bruce Robinson’s cult British comedyIn the words of its writer and director, Withnail and I is a comedy that “doesn’t know it’s funny”. To its star, it’s about “the nobility of failure”. It ends with its title character alone in the rain, his one friend gone, delivering a Hamlet soliloquy to an indifferent wolf. It’s my feelgood movie.Bruce Robinson’s British classic was released in 1987. He and Richard E Grant made the remarks above in 2007, at the British Film Institute. I was there, eager to hear Robinson discuss a movie based on his own experience. Themes abide. As he said recently about The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman, his imperishable novel about his brutal childhood: “It’s very funny but also sad as fuck.” Robinson’s first film was a novel before it was a screenplay. At the BFI, he said he knew he’d got his film right at an early screening, when a “girl sort of threw up, laughing”. She had a point. Withna...

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3 d. ago What to watch this week: From Doctor Who to Disney+ and Netflix

New shows are hitting the screens and streaming platforms this week with some fan favourites making their comebacks. But viewers can also discover brand new, binge-worthy series.

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3 d. ago Netflix Black Mirror season 7 episode 5 ending explained: What happens in Eulogy?

Black Mirror season seven is now available to watch on Netflix so how does episode five Eulogy play out?

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3 d. ago What to watch on Netflix: The best movies, series and shows to stream right now in April 2025

Are you stuck on what to watch on Netflix right now?From hard-hitting dramas to easy-watch reality TV , the streaming service has a great range of shows for everyone to enjoy.

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3 d. ago Just days left to watch 'dazzling' film on Netflix and fans are devastated

Hidden Figures, starring power-trio Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe, is about to leave Netflix and fans are urged to watch the 'truly wonderful' movie

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4 d. ago One of the best movies of the 2000s is becoming a series... but fans are divided

The action/adventure film, released in 2000, is based on Wang Dulu's book of the same name.

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5 d. ago Netflix now streaming 'perfect' conclusion to 'the best movie trilogy of all time'

You can now enjoy all three films in one of the best family movie series of all time on Netfli

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5 d. ago Netflix fans urged to watch 'best horror movie to date' with 'mind

Fans insist it is the best ending to a film they have ever seen

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6 d. ago Fans of Knives Out and Clue ‘must watch’ this new Netflix comedy dubbed ‘perfection’ by viewers

The new Netflix murder mystery was released last month

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7 d. ago Downton Abbey star reveals on The One Show ‘this is the end’ ahead of final movie

Fans of the series are anxiously awaiting the third and final movie based on the ITV show

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7 d. ago Netflix viewers urged to watch ‘the best reality show’ that’s perfect for Squid Game fans

Squid Game fans might soon have a new favourite show

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8 d. ago Netflix fans told to watch 'one of the best shows' with 96% Rotten Tomatoes score

TV fans are urging others to watch a procedural drama which they claim is 'perfect in all aspects.'

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9 d. ago 5 Stephen Graham films and TV shows to watch after Netflix's Adolescence

Stephen Graham has appeared in some brilliant TV series and films over the years - here are five of the best that you can stream now.

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9 d. ago A Minecraft Movie review – Jack Black and Jason Momoa star in seriously cobbled

Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess’s adventure based on the world’s favourite video game feels like one big cash-inIt’s a curious choice of title. A Minecraft Movie implies that this cynical intellectual property-rinsing exercise is one of numerous film adaptations of the enduringly popular sandbox video game. Perhaps there’s an alternative out there, a sharper, smarter, funnier version of a Minecraft movie. One with actual jokes. Or, God forbid, there may even be a worse iteration, although that’s hard to imagine. What becomes clear is that one of the key elements in the game’s popularity – the latitude it affords gamers to create their own experience – is a big stumbling block for any film adaptation of Minecraft.In the absence of a single fixed storyline the screenplay can follow, A Minecraft Movie has a cobbled-together feel, borrowing a device from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle – and, in Jack Black, a star – and superimposing an all-purpose quest-for-an-artefact structure o...

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1 week ago Netflix viewers slam 'hot mess' medical drama they could 'only watch for 7 minutes'

Netflix's latest medical drama series, Pulse, has left viewers unimpressed.

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1 week ago Netflix just added 'must watch' crime series fans say is 'better than Sherlock'

The streaming giant has added episodes of the hit drama

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1 week ago Netflix Adolescence fans should watch 'masterpiece' that had viewers on 'edge of their seats'

This crime series on Netflix is expected to gain attention again after the success of hit show Adolescence

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1 week ago Netflix horror film is 'so scary people can't watch it alone'

The movie has been on the streaming platform for a while now, but it has recently been rediscovered by viewers who are left 'frightened'

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