Bobby Berk will no longer be part of the Fab 5. Queer Eye‘s interior designer announced Monday that he’ll be stepping away from the hit Netflix show following the airing of the show’s eighth season in the new year. “It’s with a heavy heart that I announce that season 8 …
Read More »U.S. Women's World Cup Team's Three-Peat Hopes Focus of 'Under Pressure' Docuseries
The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s efforts to capture a third straight World Cup is the focus of the upcoming Netflix docuseries Under Pressure: The U.S. Women’s World Cup Team, with the streaming service sharing the first trailer Saturday. Under Pressure follows the roster of vets like Megan Rapinoe, Alex …
Read More »'Blue Eye Samurai' Is a Gory and Gorgeous Animated Series From Netflix
The samurai Mizu stands backed up to the edge of a seaside cliff, flanked by four master swordsman known as the Four Fangs. It is seemingly a no-win scenario for the title character of Netflix‘s Blue Eye Samurai. But for eight riveting minutes, Mizu turns this dangerous terrain into an …
Read More »How David Fincher Turned 'The Killer' Into a Mean, Lean Punch to the Gut
The man is a consummate professional. In the outside world, he could be anyone — just another ridiculous looking dude somewhere between the ages of 32 and 48, the everyguy in line behind you at an Ace Hardware store or in front of you at McDonald’s. But sitting here, in …
Read More »'Escaping Twin Flames': How to Break Up With an Online Dating Cult
Every now and then a subject comes along that seemed compelling enough to the right decision-makers to somehow become the focus of multiple projects. Seeing the competition on the horizon, producers and distributors press their pedal to the metal instead of ceding ground. This is how we end up with …
Read More »New 'Stranger Things' Play Tells the Origin of the Upside Down
Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a prequel play to the Netflix hit drama Stranger Things, is headed to London’s West End this month. In honor of “Stranger Things” Day, or the day Will Byers went missing in Hawkins back in 1983, Netflix released a new clip previewing Stranger Things: The …
Read More »'All the Light We Cannot See' Turns World War II Into a Schmaltz-Fest
Before there were dramas on television, there were dramas on the radio. With no visuals to present to their audience, radio series had to conjure up entire worlds out of carefully scripted narration, homespun special effects, and the sheer vibrance of their actors’ voices. Done right, whether back then or …
Read More »'Nyad' Signals That We've Officially Entered Oscar Bait Season
Diana Nyad had been a world-class endurance athlete for years when, after swimming around Manhattan in a little under eight hours in 1975, she became a celebrity and a talk-show staple. At the age of 30, Nyad retired after breaking the open-ocean record by going from the Bahamas to Florida, …
Read More »'Bridgerton' Actor Calls Out Netflix For Not Supporting Her Through Psychotic Breaks
Her breakthrough as Marina Thompson inBridgertonwas supposed to be the happiest time of her life, but as Ruby Barker’s acting career was taking off, she found her mental health starting to decline. “During filming, I was deteriorating,” said the 26-year-old during an interview on Oxford University’s the LOAF Podcast. “It …
Read More »Striking Actors Say They Won't Cave to Studios' Holiday Threat
David Hyde Pierce has heard the rallying cries of striking actors from outside the building he’s been rehearsing in. The Frasier star has been performing in the off-Broadway musical Here We Are for the last month, and finally found time to join union members Friday on the picket lines outside …
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