The six-hour Netflix adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace looks like it’ll be full of menacing stares, violence, and bleak landscapes, just as any historical crime fiction set before forensic science should be.
The cast of Stranger Things got a heroes’ welcome in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con Saturday, even before they released this giant trailer filled with new footage from the show’s incredibly anticipated second season. And yes, that is Vincent Price’s voiceover from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Yep, Stranger Things is…
A good hate-watch provides enough fodder for complaint, wrapped up in the right amount of story to keep you coming back for more. Entertainment is meant to distract from real life; characters have to be compelling in some small way, because otherwise, why are you paying attention? Hate-watching is theoretically…
Ever since Jessica Williams seized our attention as a correspondent on the Daily Show, we’ve eagerly followed her rising star. Now we’re fortunate to be mere weeks from the release of her loosely-autobiographical film, The Incredible Jessica James. And the latest trailer suggests that, indeed, something incredible is…
A third of the way into the 1981 ABC movie The Best Little Girl in the World, lead character Casey Powell steps onto the scale at the doctor’s office. She weighs nearly 83 pounds and so far, we’ve seen Casey, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, throw up food, ditch meals entirely, and exercise in her bed at 3 a.m.
She’s Gotta Have It, a ten-part Netflix update on Spike Lee’s original 1986 film, isn’t due out until November, and it’s still a toss-up whether it will address the topic of female sexuality more adroitly this time around. Only time will tell on that one, but Netflix did release some clips revealing the new cast.
When Sense8, Netflix’s sci-fi drama created by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, was abruptly canceled earlier this month after just two seasons, there was a considerate amount of backlash. Now, the show will be returning with a surprise two-hour special.
In the Netflix movie Okja, which first premiered (somewhat controversially) in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Ahn Seo-hyun plays a character who will stop at nothing to save the life of her beloved pet, a genetically engineered pig that’s roughly the size of a hippo and from whose name the film…
The year was 1983. Fannie Haughton—a name unfamiliar to most—was living in Oakland, California, under a poisonous Reagan regime, in the middle of a drug war. Much of her life as a student activist had involved working with her mentor, Angela Davis. Haughton taught and organized locally, a communal duty that included…
Netflix is following through on its promise to be more ruthless when it comes to killing off shows it doesn’t think are working, and Girlboss is one of the victims. Few people are expected to miss it.
Here’s the long-awaited trailer (via Entertainment Weekly) for The Incredible Jessica James, the Netflix movie starring former Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams as a character with the same first name. Is that confusing? It’s okay. Give it a minute.
A three-judge federal appeals panel affirmed on Thursday that Wisconsin inmate Brendan Dassey, who was featured in the Netflix docuseries Making a Murderer, was coerced in confessing by investigators and should be released from prison.
It is exceedingly clear that the only good Netflix reboot/revival/reconfiguration of a television series or franchise is Wet Hot American Summer. This trailer for Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later is all the proof you need.
There’s certainly a lot to love about the original 1986 TV show G.L.O.W.: big hair, plenty of glitter, and tons of expertly choreographed, theatrical ass-kicking. The professional women’s wrestling program titled Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling that ran for four seasons is a campy, vintage gem.
Marti Noxon has been a writer, producer, and sometimes director for so many great TV shows from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to UnREAL. Now she’s set to release her directorial debut with To the Bone, a new movie starring Lily Collins as a sardonic young woman named Ellen who is struggling with anorexia.
Love.com has languished in my Netflix queue for a few weeks now, simply because its description was so absurd to be irresistible: “When a fashion blogger falls for a video game vlogger, their romance goes viral. But separating their virtual life from reality gets complicated.” The alleged premise, clearly, was an act…
The Keepers isn’t much of a true crime documentary, at least in the traditional sense of the genre. And that’s to its immense credit. Netflix’s seven-part docudrama flirts with the genre but resists its pitfalls; this series is no whodunit, no he-said-she-said narrative that concludes with neat resolution. Instead,…
Barb’s mucky demise on the first season of Stranger Things was, to say the least, a real bummer. In fact, some viewers were so distressed that they hoped—and in some cases convinced themselves—that she wasn’t really dead. Death, while seemingly pretty permanent ~IRL~, can sometimes be cheated in the sci-fi and fantasy…
Not even Oprah Winfrey, who bathes in a tub of money every night, can afford to take on the high cost of Underground, the slave-era drama that fans have been campaigning to revive.
As Frank Underwood ascended in the White House, from Majority Whip to Vice President to President on House of Cards, Claire Underwood ascended with him, the co-conspiring anti-hero accomplice. From the beginning, their relationship worked as a convergence of two calculated Alphas in which Frank seized control and…
