Most Anurag Kashyap films derive their power through a distinct voice. Sometimes it’s literal: dialogue, songs, background score. Sometimes metaphorical: postmodernist whims, absurd humor, gore. His films are feverish and busy, always up for a trick or two. His latest release is Choked is now streaming on Netflix. The film is definitely an outlier. 1. […]
A bold and young independent woman falls prey to a rich, feisty, powerful man who gives her 365 days (365 dni) to fall in love with him. To be followed by a string of thrilling adventures, spersed with both pain and pleasure. Ring any bells? Well, it’s not Fifty Shades of Grey, and the guy […]
With its fantasy adaptation The Witcher, Netflix once again claimed its top spot in the streaming business from HBO and the legendary Game Of Thrones. While the second season of The Witcher announced long before the first was even out, the ongoing pandemic and production shutdown have delayed the release of the season. Not to […]
Ellie Chu is a small-town Cyrano, but with a twist. Netflix’s acclaimed original The Half of It could well be the most literary high school movie to come along to its adolescent audience. Not just because writer-director Alice Wu was inspired by a 19th-century French play, but because it loves language. It relishes reading, respects writing, and […]
Among the cancellations by Netflix, the fashion competition Next In Fashion was the most recent. Show’s co-host Tan France broke the news to the publication Variety, this week. The fashion guru, of the Queer Eye fame, headlined the show alongside style icon Alexa Chung. The show, which dropped earlier this year in January, featured 18 […]
In the mood for some heartfelt yet woke reality TV? Queer Eye is back on Netflix with season five. Unlike the usual format of our Fab Five giving a makeover to eight people, this time it will be ten lucky people who will be touched by their magic. So this gives us two extra episodes! […]
First things first. This is a charity film and 100 percent of its proceeds go to Paul Newman’s foundation for children suffering from life-threatening diseases. I had to keep reminding myself about this fact every time I thought the film could not get any more regressive and then it did. The Healer is the story […]
Netflix and its streaming content remains one of the few things resembling normalcy in the average American’s life. Times are tough. The reality is becoming unbearable, given the COVID-19 pandemic and George Floyd’s protests. This is why getting lost in the virtual world seems to be the best escape, and Netflix knows that too well. […]
The Lovebirds is a new Netflix movie starring Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae. It follows a couple with a terribly relatable problem in one of the funniest romantic comedies of the year so far. However, it has been dubbed to be quite light on the “romantic” part of the equation. Another strong selling point: a […]
Back in 2019 at Anime Expo, WIT Studio announced that they will be releasing a studio original ‘Great Pretender’ in summer 2020. Despite the production issues from COVID-19, they have not delayed the anime yet. Right on schedule, the first 5 episodes of The Great Pretender were released on Netflix on June 2. Sadly, these […]
As Netflix’s latest nostalgia exercise, teen drama Outer Banks is designed to trigger memories of a dozen movies from the ’80s and at least as many TV shows. The show counts on those subconscious responses and memories to carry viewers through 10 episodes. Although they are reasonably watchable, they hold very few original pleasures on […]
Space Force is here! Well it was here two years ago, when our beloved president launched a whole armed force to go up in space and defend the earth, or at least the American portion of it. Now, the parody of this real life joke is the one that’s arrived on Netflix. The Greg Daniels-Steve […]
