Browsing: Netflix

While yes, I’m still struggling to wrap my head around the choice to completely recast the absolutely fabulous award-winning ensemble from Netflix’s The Crown for season 3, some of the names being mentioned are pretty good. It was announced earlier this year that Oscar nominee Helena Bonham Carter will be taking over the role of Princess Margaret […]

Looks like Disney is moving forward with that Netflix competition streaming service of theirs, having just hired former Apple and Samsung executive Kevin Swint as SVP and GM at BAMTech Media, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company. Swint will be building Disney’s SVOD service, announced last year amid the removal of Disney films and TV series […]

Duncan Jones, director of such fabulous cinematic offerings as Moon, has a new film project coming to Netflix. Mute is a British-German science-fiction mystery revolving around a mute bartender searching for the love of his life who has mysteriously disappeared. The film stars Paul Rudd (sportin’ an amazing mustache), Alexander Skarsgard, and Justin Theroux. The public plot outline for Mute reads: Berlin. Forty years […]

Serious accusations of assault and misconduct have been brought forth against Aziz Ansari, (winner of two Golden Globe awards for his Netflix series Master Of None) earlier this week.  The allegations were posted via Babe.net by a woman who has identified herself as “Grace”, a 23 year old photographer from Brooklyn. “Grace” claims in her account that […]

The era of film and TV has changed, and it looks like once again the streaming services cannot be ignored as a force to be reckoned with at tonight’s 75th Annual Golden Globes. The ceremony tonight was far from a somber one, even though most of the guests wore black. Maybe you heard about the […]

Netflix original drama series The Crown is more than likely planning a time jump for their third season.  This isn’t just a theory I’m putting out there because it sounds cool, but because of a casting announcement that just happened. Variety just announced that Helena Bonham Carter has been brought on board for the third season of the […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Over its prior three seasons, the British Channel 4 anthology series-turned-Netflix darling Black Mirror has had episodes ranging from ho-hum to outstanding. As the fourth season approached, there was the typical pondering if the series still had fresh ideas to tackle or if it would be on the wane. Now that it’s arrived and the […]

Every so often, Netflix strikes gold with one of their docuseries, and The Toys That Made Us is one of them. Even if you know the history behind each of the first four episodes subject matter, chances are you haven’t seen it presented quite like this before. Check out the official trailer from earlier this month: […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Bright, Netflix’s feature film from Suicide Squad director David Ayer and American Ultra writer Max Landis released on December 22nd and we finally had a chance to check it out. With a $90 million budget, it was to be Netflix’s most expensive outing to date for a feature. Billed as a “contemporary cop […]

It was announced earlier this year (way back in May) that Netflix was going to be doing their own adaptation of “The Witcher”. Variety says that Lauren Schmidt Hissrich has been named as showrunner and writer for Netflix’s series.  No stranger to working with the stream service studio, her previous credits include The Defenders and Daredevil, […]