If you didn’t think Netflix could become any more powerful, get ready to be incredibly wrong. As reported by Deadline, Netflix has just obtained distribution rights to the film War Machine, which will star Brad Pitt and will be written and directed by David Michod (Animal Kingdom and The Rover). This is pretty big news for the popular …
On the surface, Grace and Frankie sounds almost too good to be true. The title characters (Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, respectively) are two septuagenarians whose husbands, Robert and Sol (Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston) announce that they are leaving the women for each other. The strengths and legacies of the actors, the contrast in personalities, and the core hook of the show sound as if they’re tailor-made to deliver Netflix’s next binge-worthy addiction.
Admit it. A little part of your soul died when you heard Netflix greenlit a 13-episode revival of Full House. Sure, it was all fun, flannel, and Doc Martens when Showtime announced they were bringing back Twin Peaks and Fox agreed to re-open The X-Files. But then Coach got inexplicably thrown back in the game, …
John Stamos’ appearance on Jimmy Kimmel’s show on Monday night came with the announcement that Netflix was adding another show to their roster; Fuller House, a spinoff of the late 80s/early 90s sitcom Full House, this time focusing on two of the Tanner women and Kimmy Gibbler in their grown up years. While it’s not …
Daredevil is not just a good series within a popular genre. Daredevil is an openly great series in its own right. Marvel couldn’t have asked for a more surprising and successful addition to its universe
Following weeks of speculation, official word has now been released that Netflix has ordered a 13-episode season of Fuller House, a continuation of the 90s sitcom Full House. John Stamos, one of the stars of the predecessor series, made the announcement last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, stating that the show, which will premiere in …
Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat: I’m a huge supporter of Playstation Now. Netflix, Spotify, Marvel Unlimited – show me a subscription service for content I want and I’ll show you my wallet. When it comes to film, TV, music and comics, roughly 90% of what I consume nowadays is streamed or …
Daredevil is not only the best debut for a live-action comic book series. It might also finally be that series that wins over the viewers who are naturally against these kinds of stories…
One of the greatest accomplishments of this first season has been its willingness to let the story unfold slowly, allowing this family and their secrets develop naturally.
Netflix has picked up With Bob and David, a new sketch comedy series by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. Deadline reports the longtime comedy team will produce four half-hour episodes and an hourlong making-of special for the streaming service. Odenkirk and Cross will play dishonorably discharged Navy SEALS who try to serve their country by …
Bloodline is all about deception. What’s beneath the surface, what we hide from the world and the lies we tell to protect ourselves and our families. The problem is, and the one that is explored in Bloodline, that it’s usually our families who know our deepest secrets anyways. And if you have a family like the Rayburns’ they are likely to use them against you at some point. What becomes clear in these first six episodes is that these are people who don’t let things go.
Among the slew of new shows Netflix will be airing this season is the Canadian drama Between. The streaming service has now announced that the series will be premiering on Thursday, May 21. However, the most notable aspect of this series is that, unlike Netflix‘s other offerings, the service will be releasing new episodes of …
As Netflix enjoys the success of their most recent release of House of Cards and new series, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Bloodline, the streaming service locks down another new series with a big name attached to star. The Hollywood Reporter reported on Thursday that Netflix had secured the rights to the new series being created …
The experiment has failed. The Oscars simply don’t work. And no, I’m not just continuing to vent my frustration over Boyhood losing. For the last six years, The Academy has experimented with a different number of Best Picture nominees, starting with 10, then a variable number between five and 10 based on first place votes. That …
Although the Underwoods in all their conniving glory is one of the main appeals to House of Cards, season three presents a slow but forceful tear between Frank and Claire that drove the plot into new territory. With Frank resorting to old but now ineffectual methods of coercion by putting his foot down until he gets his way, he finds himself weakened under Claire’s unwavering high heel. Restless and tired of her husband’s ways and her seemingly permanent position at his side, she ends the season with an exciting and unexpected decision to leave him. In spite of the fact that Frank and Claire seem to be an unbreakable duo hellbent on complete power, there are several moments throughout the latter half of season three that seem to suggest Claire’s desires to surpass her husband’s position or at least break apart from the illusion that they are a single organism, such as in multiple scenes where she is sitting alone at the presidential desk.
New Projects is a weekly round up of movies and TV shows recently announced and currently in development for the near future. See, Netflix isn’t just in the business of producing multiple Adam Sandler movies. Their next big original film deal will likely help them compete even more with HBO, as they’re teaming up with …
We’re mourning the loss this morning of David Carr, the culture writer and critic for The New York Times since 2002. Carr wrote about movies, television, celebrities, media, and popular culture as they intersected with politics and society, and as a favorite journalist of this writer, no one did it better. The New York Times …
On Friday, February 6, The Wall Street Journal published an interesting article claiming that Nintendo and Netflix were working together to produce a live-action Legend of Zelda TV series. The source of the news, listed only as “a person familiar with the matter,” claims that the show will follow the familiar premise of a young boy, …
One of gaming’s best known and most popular franchises may be emerging into a new realm in the coming years. As reported by the Wall Street Journal earlier today, Netflix is currently eyeing The Legend of Zelda series for a live action adaptation. Though details remain scarce, a few facts have emerged at this early stage. First …
That’s great if you’re stoked for those Adam Sandler Netflix movies, but the real intriguing development of Netflix and Amazon and increasingly bizarre players like Overstock.com getting into the original content game is what it means for independent filmmakers. Ask HBO, and they know how to market a high level program to a specific, tailored …
Two shows starring Will Arnett are not enough for Netflix as the streaming service is set to bring the actor on for another series. Arnett, who also stars in the Netflix series Arrested Development and BoJack Horseman, is set to star in Flaked for Netflix with a proposed 2016 date set, according to Collider. The …
What are those mad geniuses at Netflix up to? First they revive Arrested Development to more hype than the actual reunion actually deserved, and now they’ve got yet another cult project cooking with just about the greatest reunion cast ever assembled: the original cast of David Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer. Deadline is reporting that …
After a few weeks of rumors, Deadline reports that former Breaking Bad and Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23 actor Krysten Ritter has been cast in Marvel’s Jessica Jones, their second Netflix series after next year’s Daredevil. Jones first appeared in her own series, Alias, by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos, which ran …