Hoo boy. If you get a kick out of bad cinema—who doesn't?—then next month's Netflix additions will be right up your alley. Specifically, the streaming service is adding Battlefield Earth, a movie so bad it currently has a 3 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. "May turn out to be the worst movie of this century," The New York Times said in its review. If you're at all curious as to how...
The first season of Jessica Jones is one of the best pieces of live-action storytelling Marvel and Netflix have ever put together, whether separately or in collaboration. It was a prime example of tight, thoughtful storytelling with a strong throughline. It didn't move fast, but it was unstoppable. After a few troubled shows from the Marvel-Netflix machine, I went into Jessica Jones'...
Streaming giant Netflix is in "advanced negotiations" with former President Barack Obama and wife Michelle Obama to produce a series of shows for the service. The deal, first reported on by the New York Times, would have the couple producing content for the streaming service. While details about the format and size of these shows isn't out there yet, the Times says that the Obamas...
There was a day long ago when the idea of a Netflix show seemed like a quaint idea. Now it’s an almost daily affair, and the scope on some of these projects is getting staggering. Take the upcoming reboot of Lost in Space, the reboot of the 1960s science fiction show (and late-90s Matt LeBlanc vehicle) for example. If there was any doubt that Netflix is willing to spend top dollar to...
Binge watching. It’s fun, but there’s a dark side. Netflix has become dependent on creating shows designed to be binge-watched, and the shows suffer for it. The cure for that comes from an unexpected place: Voltron: Legendary Defender. After dropping its first two seasons in the standard 13-episode format we’re used to, the team behind the show (also responsible for work on The Legend...
Netflix has announced all of the new titles coming to its service in the month of March. Big original titles have become the norm for Netflix’s additions, and in March, the trend continues. Multiple new original movies and series are arriving in the coming month, but none are bigger than Jessica Jones and A Series of Unfortunate Events, both of which are returning for their second...
Netflix hasn’t been shy about investing billions of dollars into original content, and 2018 seems to be the year of its big push into blockbuster territory. The latest marquee movie from the streaming service is Mute, a futuristic neo-noir thriller that takes place in a Blade Runner-like world. Mute is directed by Duncan Jones, most famous for the movie adaptation of Warcraft. The plot...
Exploring Netflix is all but impossible. It feels a bit like walking into a shopping mall that you know has thousands of shops but only being able to walk into the ones the mall wants to promote and a few they “think you might like,” despite the fact that you’ve never given them any indication that you would go into Perfumania or that store that only sells socks. If there’s one thing...
Netflix kicked off the new year with a whimper, but it's now hitting its stride with several great additions in February. I'm talking Ocean's 11, The Hurt Locker, Lincoln, and Men in Black. Oh, and Netflix is getting The Emoji Movie, too, so our sympathies to all parents whose kids watch that on repeat. The streaming service is also adding some fresh original content, too, including...
I’ve been watching anime for a pretty long time (no comments from the peanut gallery, Editor in Chief Sean Aune). I’ve fallen off in recent years, but I go back long enough with the medium that I’ve watched fansubbed shows on VHS and rented some of my first anime from Blockbuster. I’ve watched anime studios and publishers come and go, and I was there for the original Sub vs. Dub wars....