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Season three of Westworld rides on to both Blu-ray and 4K-UHD this week. The latter features 2160pHEVC encoded video and lossless Dolby Atmos/TrueHD 7.1 channel sound, reports AVSForum. For its presentation in Ultra HD Westworld Season Three was rendered from a 2K DI and up-converted to 4K. With a noticeable increase in detail the image appears sharper […]

The Holiday Movies That Made Us  (01/12/2020) Insider interviews and behind-the-scenes peeks unwrap the real stories behind iconic Christmas blockbusters. Big Mouth: Season 4 (04/12/2020) On the brink of eighth grade, the friends contend with summer camp torments, shady alter egos, new make-out frontiers and Tito the Anxiety Mosquito. Selena: The Series (04/12/2020) A coming-of-age story […]

Disney+ will herald Christmas with a slate teeming with premieres, including the movies Soul and Mulan. Mulan has been available to stream as the platform’s first premium video-on-demand title but subscribers will be able to view it in up to 4K-UHD for free from December 4. Disney has yet to report on whether the PVOD […]

Sky will make all of the series Industry available for streaming on Neon five weeks ahead of the high-stakes drama completing its linear run on SoHo. Industry will be released in its entirety online on December 2 following HBO’s decision to drop all of it on HBO Max this week as a Thanksgiving weekend stunt. […]

The Invisible Man, Bombshell and the Oscar-winning Parasite will premiere next month on Sky’s streaming service, Neon. Also new will be The Peanut Butter Falcon, Richard Jewell, Underwater, Playmobil: The Movie and I Still Believe. Here’s the full slate of movie and TV premiere dates for December:

Next month TVNZ OnDemand will premiere a Sky Atlantic drama adaptation of Anaïs Nin’s “famously risque short stories”. Little Birds is about two very different women in 1955 Morocco whose lives – and those of their lovers – become dangerously entangled in Tangier’s ‘International Zone’. The Guardian dubbed it “a lush, intelligent reimagining of the author’s […]

Acorn TV has extended its 30-day free trial until the end of the year, which should give you enough time to check out some of its December highlights. Launched during the COVID-19 lockdown, the offer can be unlocked at acorn.tv with the code ACORNTVNZ30. This month Acorn TV added more than 200 hours of content, […]

Two of Apple TV+’s best drama series will return for second seasons early next year: For All Mankind and Servant. The former will premiere on February 19, with the first of 10 weekly instalments that explore what would have happened if the global space race had never ended. The Ronald D Moore (Battlestar Galactica) series […]

Next month Sky will screen for the first time in HD the 1946 Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life. The Frank Capra favourite will air on a pop-up channel devoted to Christmas-themed movies. You can buy the movie on DVD here but not on Blu-ray or 4K-UHD — despite it being for sale on both […]

Neon will exclusively stream quirky space age comedy Moonbase 8 from December 28. Following in the footsteps of Avenue 5 and Space Force, it launched early this month on Showtime and wasn’t deemed a giant leap forward for the sub-genre. John C Reilly and two of the show’s creators, Tim Heidecker and Jonathan Krisel, play astronauts simulating […]