Two years ago, Netflix debuted Cowboy Bebop, a live-action adaptation of the beloved Japanese anime about spacefaring bounty hunters in the 22nd century. I found this new version lively and thrilling, but I admittedly had never seen the original. For the most part, it seemed, the most interested audience for …
Read More »Adam Driver Calls Out Netflix and Amazon, Stands With Strikers in Venice
Adam Driver may be at the Venice Film Festival promoting his new film Ferrari, but he wants the striking SAG-AFTRA actors on the picket lines to know that he “stands in solidarity” with them. To be clear: Driver is not breaking any strike rules by appearing in Venice and doing …
Read More »Long Island Serial Killer and Still-Unsolved Gilgo Beach Murders Focus of Upcoming Netflix Docuseries
The arrest of the Long Island Serial Killer and the slew of still-unsolved murders along the shore of Gilgo Beach will be the focus of an upcoming Netflix docuseries. Filmmaker Liz Garbus, who directed the 2020 dramatized film Lost Girls about the Gilgo Beach killings, will return to the role …
Read More »How Can You Live to 100? Netflix Explores the Secrets to Aging
To live to a ripe old age, it helps to laugh a lot, love a lot, engage with your community, and avoid stress. Walking regularly helps, especially uphill. Eat plant-based foods and avoid a sedentary lifestyle. Get out of your car and stay there. In other words, do a lot …
Read More »Fall TV Season Is Looking Mel Gibson-Bleak, and It'll Only Get Worse
In an ordinary TV year, this would be the kind of column that writes itself: a rundown of somewhere between 10 and 20 of the new and returning shows we’re most excited to see this fall. But as you may have heard, this is not an ordinary TV year. The …
Read More »Michael Fassbender Is an Assassin Desperately Trying to Stick to the Plan in 'The Killer' Trailer
In David Fincher‘s The Killer, Michael Fassbender plays an assassin with a simple mission: Stick to the damn plan. But in the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Netflix film, the trained killer is having a harder time staying on course than he expected. Arriving to select theaters in October …
Read More »'Own Your Power': Colman Domingo Takes Charge as Bold Civil Rights Organizer in 'Rustin' Trailer
For Black activists, marching toward freedom in the 1960s meant navigating roadblocks and visceral hatred in order to stand for what was right. In the official teaser trailer for Netflix‘s Rustin, Colman Domingo embarks on this journey through the lens of March on Washington architect Bayard Rustin. For the civil …
Read More »Writers Fire Back at Studios' Flawed Counteroffer: 'Pay Your Workers'
Hollywood studios and streaming services released details of an offer they’d made to the Writers Guild of America that included updated terms on AI, data transparency and minimum staffing, according to a Tuesday press release. But upon further review of Hollywood’s counteroffer, members of the WGA don’t plan on leaving …
Read More »Adam Sandler's Netflix 'Bat Mitzvah' Is a Sweet, Jewish Family Affair
When you’re 13 everything carries high stakes: friendships, romances, who you’re seen with, which parties you’re invited to. Nothing has an adequate frame of reference, because everything is so new, and you’re not sure if you’re supposed to handle it all like the kid you just were or the adult …
Read More »Sofia Boutella Is Ready for Battle in Zack Snyder's 'Rebel Moon' Trailer
Justice and revenge create a common thread for the army Sofia Boutella assembles as Kora in the official teaser trailer for Zack Snyder‘s Rebel Moon. The film, set to arrive to Netflix on Dec. 22, follows Kora to the edge of the galaxy where she and her ensemble of rejects, …
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