This post contains spoilers for Baby Reindeer, which is now streaming on Netflix. It takes less than two minutes into Netflix’s Baby Reindeer for the words “this is a true story” to appear onscreen. This simple phrase, when used in pop culture, adds an extra level of emotional weight that …
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Netflix has shared a new trailer for the documentary Power, which traces the history of policing in the United States, from 18th century slave patrols and publicly funded police departments in the 19th century to police protests in the Sixties and 2020s. A speaker in the Netflix trailer raises the …
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1. Always hire Anthony Hopkins to deliver exposition. The man is an Oscar-winner, he’s played everybody from Hamlet to Hannibal Lecter, he’s got the best butter-melting British purr in the business. So if you’re Zack Snyder — or even if you’re not Zack Snyder, but are dropping the second chapter …
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Glen Powell is using his undeniable charm to put people behind bars in the new trailer for Netflix‘s Hit Man. The streaming service released the official trailer for the Richard Linklater-directed film on Thursday, showing Powell as a strait-laced professor with a hidden talent as a fake hit man. As …
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John Mulaney returns to Netflix with a six-episode special John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s In L.A., the streamer announced Monday. The Mulaney-hosted and executive produced show will stream live during Netflix Is a Joke Fest, the comedy event featuring A-list comics in Los Angeles. Within the six installments, Mulaney will explore …
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“I’m not someone who takes advantage of people,” Tom Ripley tells his new friend Dickie Greenleaf in the second episode of the new Netflix thriller Ripley. By this point, viewers have ample evidence that Tom is, in fact, exactly the kind of someone who takes advantage of people, even if …
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Do yourself a favor and, whether you’ve only seen snippets or have never set eyes on it, watch the full 2019 Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew. You can find it on YouTube. The conversation is just as fascinating, revealing, and horrifying as you’ve heard it is. For journalists, it’s a …
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John Mulaney‘s homecoming will be captured in the forthcoming episode of Netflix‘s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman. In a special episode premiering on April 30, the comedian heads back to the high school he attended in Chicago to sit with Letterman for a deep discussion about …
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“Because everything that happened with this — I’m going to call it a ‘scandal,’” explains Kyle Richards, star of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, at the dinner table of her Aspen vacation home, where her husband and four daughters are gathered. “If something goes on in our lives like this, …
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A defamation lawsuit against Netflix over its miniseries Inventing Anna — about the “Soho grifter” Anna Delvey, a.k.a. Anna Sorokin — is set to go to trial after a judge rejected the streaming service’s bid to dismiss the case. In August 2022, six months after the Shonda Rhimes-produced miniseries debuted, …
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