Film4

Film 4 is a free British TV channel, showing films (no real surprise there!) and is found on channel 300 when using freesat, but is also available on freeview and sky. The channel is owned and operated by Channel 4, and so is its partern channel Film 4+1, which shows programs on Film 4 one hour later. What sort of films are shown? The range of films shown is increasingly varied and depends on the time of year and time of day. The films could be 20 years old, but increasingly films are shown from 2004, 2005. The films shown later appeal to older audiences, however those shown during the day (normally the channel commences broadcasting at 12 noon) are not ...  Read the complete review

Film 4 is a channel which currently shows on Freeview and cable television. As the name states, this is a channel that provides films for viewers to watch. I often enjoy the late night movies that this channel offers, and often have some great films, but during the days, I am not really impressed with the choice of films. I often find that during the days, they play old fashioned films that my grandparents probably would have watched, but from late afternoon onwards, the film selection usually improves a bit and there is a greater variety. With the competition of other channels and their films, I would expect this channel to possibly play more recent films, but ...  Read the complete review

Film 4 is a fairly new great channel now available on free view owned and operated by channel 4.It broadcasts from 1pm till roughly 9am. 'Unlike its rivals, Film4 does not focus on broadcasting blockbusters. Instead, it aims for a more niche and highbrow market by showing a mixture of old and new independent, art house, British, foreign language and specialist cinema, along with some critically-acclaimed Hollywood films.'(wikipedia) Some classics are the Shawshank redemption, a clockwork orange, mean machine and many more great films. The best films usually air at 9pm every night. Film 4 sometimes have different themes where one week they ...  Read the complete review

What I like about Film 4- ~ They show some of the more obscure great films you would have never experienced otherwise ~ Because of this they have built up a brand name for thought provoking, cutting edge films, so movies shown on the channel are almost given the Film 4 seal of quality ~ I have loved nearly all the films they have create- the likes of "How To Lose Friends And Alienate People", "Slumdog Millionaire", "This Is England", "Venus", "Last King of Scotland", etc etc ~ Becoming freely available was definetly a good idea, I can now enjoy the channel on Sky, Virgin and ...  Read the complete review

...The only terrestrial film channel Film4 is a UK movie channel located on Freeview channel 32, Freesat channel 300, and Sky Digital channel 315. It was first broadcast in 1998, when it was a subscription service costing between £5 and £7 a month to view. In 2007, the channel became free to air, and the change is said to have increased the viewing figures from only 300,000 subscribers to a potential 18 Million households. The channel was able to drop its subs as it began using advertisements to help pay for its running costs. Famous for broadcasting a variety of films including 'arthouse' and independent titles, Film4 has got ...  Read the complete review