Poll: Will You Cancel Netflix Due to the Rate Hike?
Earlier this week, Netflix announced that it will increase the price of its streaming video service by “one or two dollars a month” within the next few months in order to support its development of...
View ArticlePoll: Favorite Netflix Original Series
After years of resisting, I’ve finally broken down and subscribed to Netflix. This leaves me with a lot of original programming to catch up on. Where should I start? What are your favorite Netflix...
View Article‘Fuller House’ Pilot Recap: “Cut. It. Out!”
Of all the old TV shows that might get the “dark and gritty” reboot treatment, I have to say that I’m very surprised by what Netflix has done to ‘Full House’, that defining example of shitty 1990s...
View ArticleNow Streaming: ‘Stranger Things’
With all the big-budget theatrical releases and sequels hitting one’s local cinema, who would have guessed that the best bit of entertainment this summer could be found right at home on your TV? If...
View ArticleTIFF Journal: ‘Mascots’
Even after his patented mockumentary style was co-opted by countless TV shows, there’s still only one Christopher Guest. His latest comedy, ‘Mascots’, serves up almost everything you could want from...
View ArticleSundance Journal: ‘The Discovery’
It seems like Sundance co-creator Robert Redford (and/or one of his kids) finds a way into a festival movie each year. More often than not, it feels like these films only make it into the festival...
View ArticleNow Streaming: ‘House of Cards’ Season 5
Now in its fifth season, the Netflix original series ‘House of Cards’ increasingly feels like a show that’s running out of gas. The difference between this series and others in a similar situation is...
View ArticleNow Streaming: ‘Death Note’
In a strange series of events that will likely only become more common, the biggest movie of the week is debuting on Netflix. The sort of weird genre mash-up that would comfortably fit into a late...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: Favorite Streaming TV Series
Although this blog covers a lot of broadcast and cable TV shows, those that air exclusively via streaming have been a notable blind spot for some time. Whether it be by Netflix, Amazon, Hulu or some...
View ArticleNow Streaming: ‘Mindhunter’ Season 1
Netflix’s ‘Mindhunter’ is a new series created and written by Joe Penhall and executive produced by Charlize Theron and David Fincher, with Fincher directing the first two and the last two installments...
View ArticleNow Streaming: ‘Stranger Things 2’
Sequels are such dangerous things, especially when you’re trying to follow up on something that was more or less a cultural event. One runs the risk of being too different or, even worse, being more of...
View ArticleNow Streaming: ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’
From the beginning, the ‘Cloverfield’ franchise has been as much about J.J. Abrams’ interest in marketing as it is about the movies themselves. This weekend, Abrams’ pulled off his greatest...
View ArticleNow Streaming: ‘Altered Carbon’
Lavish in its visual effects and elaborate soundstage sets, the cyberpunk sci-fi drama ‘Altered Carbon’ has been proudly hyped as Netflix’s most expensive and ambitious production to date. What the...
View ArticleNow Streaming: ‘Lost in Space’ Season 1
Although my tastes have evolved over the years, the original ‘Lost in Space‘ was the TV series was that made me a sci-fi fan. The show has always seemed ripe for a reboot/reimagining, but when the 1998...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash: ‘Most Likely to Die’
Ten years ago, a gaggle of yearbook staffers drunkenly defaced John Dougherty’s senior photo and voted him Most Likely to Die. Flash-forward to the night before the big high school reunion, and it’s...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash: ‘The ReZort’
If you’ve had your fill of ‘Westworld’ thinkpieces and ‘Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom’ previews, why not take a break with a zombie safari at ‘The ReZort’? The zombie apocalypse didn’t take. The war...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash: ‘Bedeviled’
When the Devil knocks at your door, he doesn’t have cloven hooves. He is beautiful and offers you your heart’s desire in whispered airs, like a siren beckoning you to ruinous shore. Or maybe he’s a...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash: ‘Don’t Kill It’
I tried, but Netflix doesn’t have a single movie with killer mummies or evil genies. Oh well. Instead, here’s Dolph Lundgren: Vaping Demon Hunter. At first glance, you might think you’ve stumbled onto...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash: ‘Tag’
As if you couldn’t tell from the teaser image above, we’re not talking about the same ‘Tag’ that’s in theaters now. A pair of school buses in the absolute middle of nowhere are well on their way...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash: Extinction
First, Netflix picked up Annihilation, and now it’s got Extinction. I’m starting to feel pretty good about next week’s pitch for my humanistic sci-fi opus, Obliteration. Dateline: the future!...
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