Wednesday 28 February 2018

17 must-stream premieres in March

17 must-stream premieres in March

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17 must-stream premieres in March

Posted: 27 Feb 2018 01:56 PM PST

With the critically acclaimed series Atlanta and The Americans, and fan favorites Marvel’s Jessica Jones and Silicon Valley coming back this month you’ll have a hard time deciding what to watch first.

So, what will be first on your streaming list?

MARCH 1

Atlanta – Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families. | FOX NOW, FX via DIRECTV NOWHulu with Live TV, PlayStation Vue, Sling TV, YouTube TV and fuboTV

MARCH 3

Top Gear – Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris and Rory Reid cover everything car-related. | BBC America via DIRECTV NOWPlayStation Vue, Sling TV, YouTube TV and Philo.

MARCH 7

Life Sentence – Stella has spent the last eight years living like she was dying (because she was). But when she finds out that her cancer has been cured, she is suddenly forced to face the long-term consequences of the "live in the moment" decisions she made. | The CW (free), The CW via DIRECTV NOW and YouTube TV

MARCH 8

Marvel’s Jessica Jones – Jessica Jones is back as New York City's tough-as-nails private investigator. Although this time, the case is even more personal than ever before. | Netflix

MARCH 9

Sneaky Pete – On the verge of starting fresh, Marius is dragged back into the role of Pete Murphy. | Prime Video

MARCH 11

American Idol – Helping to determine who America will ultimately vote for to become the next singing sensation, are music industry forces and superstar judges, Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie. | FOX NOW, FOX via DIRECTV NOW, Hulu with Live TV, PlayStation Vue, Sling TV, YouTube TV and fuboTV

MARCH 13

For the People – New Shondaland series follows six talented young lawyers working on opposite sides of the law and handling the most high-profile and high-stakes federal cases in the country. | ABC via DIRECTV NOW, Hulu with Live TV, PlayStation Vue, Sling TV, YouTube TV

Rise – From the producer of Hamilton and the producer of Friday Night Lights and Parenthood comes Rise, a new drama about finding inspiration in unexpected places. | NBC via DIRECTV NOW, Hulu with Live TV, PlayStation Vue, Sling TV and fuboTV

MARCH 16

On My Block – A coming of age comedy about four bright and street-savvy friends navigating their way through the triumph, pain and the newness of high-school set in the rough inner city. | Netflix

MARCH 23

The Mechanism – From the creator of Narcos and Elite Squad, The Mechanism tells the story of the biggest money laundering scheme in Brazil. | Netflix

Santa Clarita Diet – Ready for seconds? | Netflix

MARCH 25

Barry – A hitman tries to quit his job after realizing his love for acting. | HBO NOW

Billions – Season three of Billions finds Chuck Rhoades and Bobby Axelrod in a world that has shifted on its axis. Both men are still determined to destroy the other, but must also battle for their own survival amid new forces and powerful enemies. | SHOWTIME

Silicon Valley – New internet. New problems. The Pied Piper gang returns for another season, and things aren’t going exactly as planned. | HBO NOW

Trust – Told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian mafia in Rome. | FOX NOW, FX via DIRECTV NOW, Hulu with Live TV, PlayStation Vue, Sling TV, YouTube TV and fuboTV

MARCH 28

The Americans (final season!) – Every mission has led to this. | FOX NOW, FX via DIRECTV NOW, Hulu with Live TV, PlayStation Vue, Sling TV, YouTube TV and fuboTV

MARCH 30

A Series of Unfortunate Events – Get ready for more villains, more schemes, more peril, more orphans and more intentional fires. | Netflix

Happy Streaming!

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Tuesday 27 February 2018

All the Best Picture Oscar winners ranked by Rotten Tomatoes

All the Best Picture Oscar winners ranked by Rotten Tomatoes

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All the Best Picture Oscar winners ranked by Rotten Tomatoes

Posted: 26 Feb 2018 07:00 AM PST

Of all the high-caliber Oscar winners, which Best Picture is the best of the best? See the winners of the last 90 years ranked by their Rotten Tomatoes‘ score. Do you agree with the rankings? What’s the best movie on this list?

Click here to learn how to watch this year’s Oscar nominees.

Best Picture winnerRotten Tomatoes score
1955 - Marty 100%
1950 - All About Eve 100%
1945 - The Lost Weekend 100%
1940 - Rebecca 100%
2016 - Moonlight 98%
2011 - The Artist 98%
1972 - The Godfather 98%
1971 - The French Connection 98%
1962 - Lawrence of Arabia 98%
1954 - On the Waterfront 98%
1934 - It Happened One Night 98%
1927 - Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans98%
2015 - Spotlight 97%
2009 - The Hurt Locker 97%
1993 - Schindler's List 97%
1977 - Annie Hall 97%
1974 - The Godfather Part II 97%
1949 - All the Kings Men 97%
1943 - Casablanca 97%
1938 - You Can't Take It with You 97%
1930 - All Quiet on the Western Front 97%
1928 - Wings 97%
2013 - 12 Years a Slave 96%
2012 - Argo 96%
1992 - Unforgiven 96%
1967 - In the Heat of the Night 96%
1964 - My Fair Lady 96%
1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives 96%
1991 - The Silence of the Lambs 95%
1984 - Amadeus 95%
1975 - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 95%
1970 - Patton 95%
1951 - An American in Paris 95%
1939 - Gone with the Wind 95%
2010 - The King's Speech 94%
2007 - No Country for Old Men 94%
2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 94%
1978 - The Deer Hunter 94%
1961 - West Side Story 94%
1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai 94%
1935 - Mutiny on the Bounty 94%
1976 - Rocky 93%
1973 - The Sting 93%
1960 - The Apartment 93%
2008 - Slumdog Millionaire 92%
1998 - Shakespeare in Love 92%
1987 - The Last Emperor 92%
1953 - From Here to Eternity 92%
1942 - Mrs. Miniver 92%
2014 - Birdman 91%
2006 - The Departed 91%
2004 - Million Dollar Baby 91%
1948 - Hamlet 91%
1980 - Ordinary People 90%
1969 - Midnight Cowboy 90%
1941 - How Green Was My Valley 90%
1988 - Rain Man 89%
1999 - American Beauty 88%
1997 - Titanic 88%
1986 - Platoon 88%
1983 - Terms of Endearment 88%
1979 - Kramer vs. Kramer 88%
1982 - Gandhi 87%
1932 - Grand Hotel 87%
2002 - Chicago 86%
1965 - The Sound of Music 86%
1959 - Ben-Hur 86%
1996 - The English Patient 84%
1990 - Dances With Wolves 83%
1981 - Chariots of Fire 83%
1963 - Tom Jones 83%
1989 - Driving Miss Daisy 82%
1966 - A Man for All Seasons 82%
1968 - Oliver! 81%
1944 - Going My Way 78%
1995 - Braveheart 77%
1958 - Gigi 77%
2000 - Gladiator 76%
1947 - Gentleman's Agreement 76%
2005 - Crash 75%
2001 - A Beautiful Mind 75%
1956 - Around the World in 80 Days 74%
1994 - Forrest Gump 71%
1937 - The Life of Emile Zola 71%
1933 - Cavalcade 61%
1985 - Out of Africa 57%
1931 - Cimarron 53%
1952 - The Greatest Show on Earth 44%
1929 - The Broadway Melody 35%
1936 - The Great Ziegfeld N/A

Happy Streaming!

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Saturday 24 February 2018

Here’s everything that’s new on Netflix in March 2018

Here’s everything that’s new on Netflix in March 2018

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Here’s everything that’s new on Netflix in March 2018

Posted: 23 Feb 2018 10:54 AM PST

Every month we share all the movies and TV shows coming and going from Netflix. Subscribe to our blog and follow us on FacebookTwitterYouTube and Instagram for more entertainment recommendations! 

Here's what I'm looking forward to on Netflix in March: 21 Thunder: Season 1 (3/1), Flint Town: Season 1 (3/2), and Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Season 2 (3/8).

Available 3/1/18

  • 300
  • 21 Thunder: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • 2307: Winter’s Dream
  • Adel Karam: Live from Beirut — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Adventureland
  • Algo Muy Gordo
  • Alpha and Omega
  • Battle Drone
  • Beerfest
  • Casino
  • Cruel Intentions
  • Cruel Intentions 2
  • Cruel Intentions 3
  • Deathgrip
  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall
  • Ghostbusters
  • Ghostbusters 2
  • Gridiron Gang
  • Guess Who
  • Hostage
  • I Am Number Four
  • I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
  • Jackass: Number Two
  • Land Gold Women
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Eighteenth Year
  • Martian Child
  • Moon
  • People Like Us
  • Revolutionary Road
  • Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild
  • The Brothers Grimm
  • The Bucket List
  • The Descent
  • The Descent: Part 2
  • The Experiment
  • The Fifth Estate
  • The Gift
  • The Lazarus Project
  • True to the Game
  • Untraceable
  • Up in the Air
  • Wet Hot American Summer
  • Women at War 1939-1945

Available 3/2/18

  • B: The Beginning: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Flint Town: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Girls Incarcerated: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Les Affamés — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Malena Pichot: Estupidez compleja — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Natalia Valdebenito: El Especial — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Voltron: Legendary Defender: Season 5 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 3/4/18

  • Expedition China
  • The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 3/5/18

  • F The Prom
  • The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 3/6/18

  • Benji
  • Borderliner: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • For the Love of Benji
  • Gad Elmaleh: American Dream — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 3/7/18

  • Aftershock

Available 3/8/18

  • Bad Guys: Vile City: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Ladies First — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 3/9/18

  • I.C.O. Incarnation: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Collateral: Limited Series — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Love: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman: Malala Yousafzai –NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Nailed It: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • The Outsider — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Trolls: The Beat Goes On!: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 3/10/18

  • Septiembre, un Llanto en Silencio

Available 3/12/18

  • Kygo: Live at the Hollywood Bowl
  • Troy: The Odyssey

Available 3/13/18

  • Children of the Whales: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Ricky Gervais: Humanity — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Stretch Armstrong: The Breakout — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Terrace House: Opening New Doors: Part 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 3/15/18

  • Jackass 3.5: The Unrated Movie
  • Power Rangers Ninja Steel: Season 1
  • Tabula Rasa: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • The Hollywood Masters: Season 2

Available 3/16/18

  • Benji — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Edha: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • On My Block: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Spirit Riding Free: Season 4 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Take Your Pills — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Wild Wild Country: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 3/19/18

  • In Search of Fellini

Available 3/20/18

  • 100 Years: One Woman’s Fight for Justice
  • The Standups: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 3/21/18

  • Conor McGregor: Notorious

Available 3/23/18

  • Alexa & Katie: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Dinotrux Supercharged: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Game Over, Man! — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Layla M.– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Requiem: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Roxanne Roxanne — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Santa Clarita Diet: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • SWORDGAI The Animation: Part 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • The Mechanism: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 3/24/18

  • Red Trees

Available 3/27/18

  • Men on a Mission: 2018

Available 3/28/18

  • 50 First Dates
  • Little Women
  • Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown
  • The Art of War

Available 3/30/18

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • First Match — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Happy Anniversary — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir Season 2 Part 1
  • Rapture: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Reboot: The Guardian Code: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Sofía Niño de Rivera: Selección natural — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • The Titan– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Trailer Park Boys: Season 12 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
  • Trump: An American Dream: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 3/31/18

  • Let Me In

LAST CALL

Leaving 3/1/18

  • A Gang Story
  • Anastasia
  • Baby's Day Out
  • Eyewitness
  • FernGully: The Last Rainforest
  • First Response
  • Forget and Forgive
  • Hitch
  • Jaws
  • Jaws 2
  • Jaws 3
  • Jaws: The Revenge
  • Less Than Zero
  • Memento
  • Slums of Beverly Hills
  • The Chase
  • The Craft
  • The Panic in Needle Park
  • Trigger Point
  • Two Wrongs
  • xXx

Leaving 3/4/18

  • Chloe
  • Safe Haven

Leaving 3/6/18

  • The Finest Hours

Leaving 3/8/18

  • Victoria

Leaving 3/11/18

  • Believe
  • Glitch

Leaving 3/12/18

  • Standby
  • Disney's The Santa Clause
  • Disney's The Santa Clause 2
  • Disney's The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

Leaving 3/13/18

  • Breakout Kings: Season 1
  • City of God: 10 Years Later
  • London Has Fallen
  • The Killing: Seasons 1-2

Leaving 3/14/18

  • Archer: Seasons 1-7

Leaving 3/19/18

  • V/H/S: Viral

Leaving 3/20/18

  • Zootopia

Leaving 3/22/18

  • Steve Jobs: One Last Thing

Leaving 3/24/18

  • Voltron 84: Season 1
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Leaving 3/26/18

  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Leaving 3/29/18

  • The Gates: Season 1

Leaving 3/30/18

  • Life in Pieces: Season 1

Leaving 3/31/18

  • Awake: Season 1
  • Bordertown: Season 1
  • Breakout Kings: Season 2
  • Brickleberry: Seasons 1-3
  • Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life: Season 1
  • Friends with Benefits: Season 1
  • In Like Flint
  • Lights Out: Season 1
  • Rosewood: Season 1
  • Salem: Seasons 2-3
  • Small Shots: Season 1
  • The Awakening
  • The Carmichael Show: Seasons 1-2
  • The Chicago Code: Season 1
  • The Crazy Ones: Season 1
  • The Finder: Season 1
  • The Good Son
  • Traffic Light: Season 1

Happy Streaming!

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Friday 23 February 2018

21 new movie releases (February)

21 new movie releases (February)

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21 new movie releases (February)

Posted: 22 Feb 2018 02:06 PM PST

Already streamed through last month’s new movie releases? That’s good because you’ll want to fill your streaming list up with all these Oscar® nominees and box office hits including Lady Bird, The Shape of Water (available next week!), Thor: Ragnarok and more.

Which movie release have you been waiting for?

AVAILABLE NOW

Coco (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 97%) – Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family’s ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer. | FandangoNOWVudu

Lady Bird (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 99%) – In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California. | FandangoNOW, Google Play, Prime Video

Darkest Hour (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 86%) – During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds. | FandangoNOW, Google Play, Prime Video

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 92%) – A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter’s murder when they fail to catch the culprit. | FandangoNOW, Google Play, Prime Video

Justice League (40% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer) – Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. | FandangoNOW, Google Play, Prime Video

Steve McQueen: American Icon – The untold true story of the spiritual quest of a Hollywood legend. | FandangoNOW, Prime Video

Keep Watching  A family become imprisoned in their home by intruders, who force them to play a life-and-death game, where the mysterious rules become clear as the night unfolds. | FandangoNOW, Prime Video

The Star (44% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer)  A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the first Christmas. | FandangoNOW, Google Play, Prime Video

Thor: Ragnarok (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 92%) – Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela. | FandangoNOW, Google Play, Prime Video

The Man Who Invented Christmas (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 80%) – The journey that led to Charles Dickens’ creation of “A Christmas Carol,” a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday. | FandangoNOW, Google Play, Prime Video

Novitiate (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 87%)  Set in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, the changing church and sexuality. | FandangoNOW, Prime Video

Murder on the Orient Express (57% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer) – When a murder occurs on the train he’s travelling on, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case. | FandangoNOW, Google Play, Prime Video

FEBRUARY 27

The Shape of Water (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 92%) – At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.

Call Me By Your Name (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 96%) – In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year-old Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, his father’s research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the beguiling Italian landscape.

Faces Places (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 100%) – Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Ferdinand (71% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer) – After Ferdinand, a bull with a big heart, is mistaken for a dangerous beast, he is captured and torn from his home. Determined to return to his family, he rallies a misfit team on the ultimate adventure.

MARCH 1

Pitch Perfect 3 (32% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer) – Following their win at the world championship, the now separated Bellas reunite for one last singing competition at an overseas USO tour, but face a group who uses both instruments and voices.

MARCH 2

I, Tonya (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 90%) – Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

MARCH 6

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 76%) – Four teenagers are sucked into a magical video game, and the only way they can escape is to work together to finish the game.

Downsizing (51% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer) – A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.

MARCH 13

Jane (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 99%) – The life and work of the renowned primatology scientist, Jane Goodall, especially on her research about chimpanzees.

Happy Streaming!

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Thursday 22 February 2018

Roku Blog Feed: “DAZN now available on Roku players and Roku TVs in Canada!” plus 2 more

Roku Blog Feed: “DAZN now available on Roku players and Roku TVs in Canada!” plus 2 more

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DAZN now available on Roku players and Roku TVs in Canada!

Posted: 22 Feb 2018 06:28 AM PST

Roku users across Canada will now be able to live stream and catch-up on DAZN’s extensive range of sports content such as NatWest 6 Nations Championship, top European Soccer leagues such as La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1, Champions League via its partnership with BeIN Sports, the 24/7 NFL Network, as well as Russia's Kontinental Hockey League, FIBA Basketball, WTA Tennis and MotoGP.

DAZN's offering recently was expanded with more than 30 PGA TOUR events, Tie Break Tens (the hottest new competition in Tennis), Red Bull Air Race and World Snooker. DAZN users will also have every LIVE game of the 2018-19 NFL season – including pre-season, regular season, the playoffs and next year’s Super Bowl in Atlanta.

The DAZN channel can be added from the Sports category in the Roku Channel Store, or by clicking here.

 

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UKTV Play now available on Roku streaming players!

Posted: 22 Feb 2018 12:47 AM PST

UKTV Play just launched on Roku® streaming players in the UK. The free, TV on demand service hosts shows from UKTV channels Dave, Yesterday, Really and Drama including exclusive UKTV Originals and thousands of hours from the network's extensive archive.

Roku users will now have easy access to UKTV's top boxsets, from the multi-award winning Taskmaster, to Yianni: Supercar Customiser with YouTube sensation Yianni Charalambous, and Most Haunted for all the paranormal fans out there. They can also watch exclusive previews of brand new Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit and a special Fight Night Preview show, ahead of the next Hayemaker Ringstar boxing match, featuring former Olympic silver medallist Joe Joyce and Scottish braveheart Willy Hutchinson.

UKTV Play can be added to the home screen from the Film & TV category in the Roku Channel Store, or by clicking here.

Happy Streaming!

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These are the titles leaving The Roku Channel at the end of February

Posted: 21 Feb 2018 01:26 PM PST

Every week, we put together a list of free movies to watch on The Roku Channel. This week, we’ve highlighted a number of movies that are leaving the channel at the end of the month. Your time is running out, so watch them for free while you still can!

If you don't have The Roku Channel yet, click here to add the channel and start streaming for free!

FEATURED TITLES LEAVING THE ROKU CHANNEL:

 Elizabethtown (2005): During a hometown memorial for his Kentucky-born father, a young man begins an unexpected romance with a too-good-to-be-true stewardess. Starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst.

 Regarding Henry (1991): After being shot, a man loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him. Starring Harrison Ford and Annette Bening.

 A Raisin in the Sun (2008): An African-American family struggles with poverty, racism, and inner conflict as they strive for a better way of life. Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry. Starring Sean Combs and Sanaa Lathan.

 Hanging Up (2000): A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close. Starring Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, and Lisa Kudrow.

 Into the Wild (2007): After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life. Starring Emile Hirsch and Vince Vaughn.

 Resident Evil: Extinction (2007):Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp. Starring Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter.

MORE TITLES LEAVING THE ROKU CHANNEL:

Cruel Intentions (1999): Two vicious step-siblings of an elite Manhattan prep school make a wager: to deflower the new headmaster’s daughter before the start of term. Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Reese Witherspoon.

Finding Forrester (2000): A young writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author. Starring Sean Connery and Rob Brown.

First Knight (1995): Lancelot falls in love with Guinevere, who is due to be married to King Arthur. Meanwhile, a violent warlord tries to seize power from Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Starring Sean Connery and Richard Gere.

Fools Rush In (1997): After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one’s own cultural traditions. Starring Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek.

Gamer (2009): In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a ‘Doom’-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free. Or won’t he? Starring Gerard Butler and Michael C. Hall.

Head In The Clouds (2004): A young Cambridge student gets involved with a budding photographer in the years before WWII. Their relationship gets severed as he heads to Spain to fight fascism. They are later reunited when she puts her life on the line to save him. Starring Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, and Penelope Cruz.

Just Add Water (2008): An offbeat romantic comedy about a decent guy with a dead-end life in the dead-end town of Trona, CA who sheds the parasites in his life, musters the nerve to pursue his childhood love, and takes back his community by toppling the local teenage Meth-baron. Starring Dylan Walsh, Jonah Hill, and Justin Long.

Léon: The Professional (1994): Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin’s trade. Starring Jean Reno and Natalie Portman.

Mo’ Money (1992): Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards, everything is going great. But soon, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of criminals… Starring Damon Wayans and Stacey Dash.

My Girl (1991): A young girl, on the threshold of her teen years, finds her life turning upside down, when she is accompanied by an unlikely friend. Starring Anna Chlumsky and Macaulay Culkin.

Peggy Sue Got Married (1986): Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school. Starring Kathleen Turner and Nicolas Cage.

Resident Evil (2002): A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident. Starring Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez.

Saw (2004): Two strangers, who awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, soon discover they’re pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer. Starring Cary Elwes and Leigh Whannell.

The Craft (1996): A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them. Starring Robin Tunney and Neve Campbell.

True Romance (1993): In Detroit, a lonely pop culture geek marries a call girl, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood. Meanwhile, the owners of the cocaine – the Mob – track them down in an attempt to reclaim it. Starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette.

What To Expect When You’re Expecting (2012): Follows the lives of five interconnected couples as they experience the thrills and surprises of having a baby, and realize that no matter what you plan for, life does not always deliver what is expected. Starring Cameron Diaz, Matthew Morrison, and Jennifer Lopez.

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Wednesday 21 February 2018

6 free sci-fi channels on the Roku platform

6 free sci-fi channels on the Roku platform

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6 free sci-fi channels on the Roku platform

Posted: 20 Feb 2018 02:27 PM PST

Time and time again, we hear that you love free Roku channels. Recently, we highlighted some free music channels, movie channels, and even some free hidden gems, now we bring a list for you sci-fi lovers! Here are six free sci-fi channels on the Roku platform.

Did we miss any of your favorites? Let us know in the comments below!

roku sci fi channels

  • Comet TV – A linear stream that any sci-fi fan will love, with episodes of Andromeda and Stargate Atlantis along with cult classic films. See what’s on the schedule for days to come with their channel guide.
  • FilmRise Sci-Fi – With over 50 full length sci-fi movies currently streaming, this might quickly become a science fiction lover’s favorite free channel.
  • Retro Sci-Fi – Featuring sci-fi films from the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s!
  • Sci-Fi Films by Fawesome.tv – Choose from hundreds of sci-fi films and TV episodes sorted by genres like horror, thriller, future noir, space opera, and more.
  • Sci-Fi Collection – Watch flicks with everything from monsters and aliens, space and time travel, experiments gone horribly wrong and much more.
  • Sci-Fi Classics Channel – Currently streaming films like Frankenstein, Little Shop of Horrors, and Night of the Living Dead along with episodes of Space Patrol.

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Tuesday 20 February 2018

Sundance Film Festival 2018: stars on the movies they love [VIDEO]

Sundance Film Festival 2018: stars on the movies they love [VIDEO]

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Sundance Film Festival 2018: stars on the movies they love [VIDEO]

Posted: 19 Feb 2018 02:00 PM PST

The Sundance Film Festival brings all the biggest movie lovers together. Of course, me and the rest of the Roku crew in attendance were in hog heaven! Stars from some of the buzziest Sundance films, including Blindspotting and Private Life, shared the first movie they fell in love with.

What about you? Tell us about your first movie love!

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Sunday 18 February 2018

Sarah Jessica Parker and the cast of Divorce on break ups and season 2 [VIDEO]

Sarah Jessica Parker and the cast of Divorce on break ups and season 2 [VIDEO]

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Sarah Jessica Parker and the cast of Divorce on break ups and season 2 [VIDEO]

Posted: 17 Feb 2018 07:40 AM PST

The cast of HBO’s Divorce is no stranger to on-screen relationship drama, but what about in their personal lives? We got them to dish on their worst break up lines…and the worst that have been used on them. Plus, they share what to expect in Divorce season 2.

Catch new episodes of Divorce Sundays at 10 p.m. on HBO NOW.

P.S. Did you notice that Sarah Jessica Parker is wearing Roku purple!? 😉

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