Martin Carr reviews Black Mirror’s Striking Vipers… Charlie Brooker might be frenetic, prone to tangential leaps of inspiration and talking a mile a minute, but there is no way you could call the man boring. Video games, virtual reality and gender politics might seem like strange bedfellows, but somehow he draws it all together whilst […]
Black Mirror Season 5 Review – ‘Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too’
Martin Carr reviews Black Mirror’s Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too… Apart from the syntactic call back to a sweet natured provincial sex comedy worked into that title, this episode focuses on grief and how we process it. Similar thematically to Smithereens, Brooker explores the coping mechanisms we all employ and what comes from that. He […]
Black Mirror Season 5 Review – ‘Smithereens’
Martin Carr reviews Black Mirror’s Smithereens… There is an immediacy and rawness to this opening salvo which strips away any big budget gloss, any fanciful locations and merely focuses on character. London late last year is as drab, grey and soulless as the colour palette allows while a washed out Andrew Scott ferries people around […]
Black Mirror gets three season 5 posters
With a little over a week to go until season 5 of Black Mirror arrives on Netflix, three new posters have been revealed for this series’ episodes ‘Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too’ featuring Miley Cyrus, ‘Smithereens’, and ‘Striking Vipers’ featuring Anthony Mackie; check them out here… SEE ALSO: Black Mirror season 5 episode trailers and […]
Black Mirror season 5 episode trailers and promotional images revealed
Ahead of its June 5th premiere, Netflix has unveiled trailers and promotional images for all three episodes in the fifth season of the acclaimed anthology series Black Mirror: ‘Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too’ starring Miley Cyrus, Angourie Rice, and Madison Davenport; ‘Smithereens’ starring Andrew Scott, Damson Idris and Topher Grace; and ‘Striking Vipers’ starring Anthony […]
Black Mirror season 5 trailer, premiere date and cast revealed
Netflix has released the first trailer for the fifth season of Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones’ acclaimed anthology series Black Mirror which is set to arrive on the streaming service on June 5th. This series features a star-studded cast that includes Anthony Mackie, Miley Cyrus, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Topher Grace, Damson Idris, Andrew Scott, Nicole […]
Black Mirror: Every Episode Ranked from Worst to Best
Liam Hoofe looks back at all 19 episodes of Black Mirror and ranks them from worst to best… I originally wrote a ranking piece for Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology series, back in 2016, when there had only been two seasons of the show, and at that time, a total of seven episodes. With […]
Black Mirror casts Anthony Mackie and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II for season 5
Netflix’s Black Mirror has begun casting for the fifth season of the sci-fi anthology series and Deadline reports the first actors to join are Anthony Mackie (Avengers: Infinity War) and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Aquaman). Production on the fifth season of Black Mirror was pushed back due to their work on the interactive choose-your-own adventure special Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Series creator […]
Netflix facing $25 million lawsuit over Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Netflix is facing a $25 million lawsuit over last month’s interactive movie Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, with children’s book publisher Chooseco, the company behind the Choose Your Own Adventure books, filing against the streaming giant for breaching its trademark. “Chooseco and Netflix engaged in extensive negotiations that were ongoing for a number of years, but Netflix […]
Interview – Fionn Whitehead, Asim Chaudhry and Will Poulter discuss Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Martin Carr chats with Black Mirror: Bandersnatch stars Fionn Whitehead, Asim Chaudhry and Will Poulter… Just off Dean Street in an exclusive boutique hotel in London we were lucky enough to sit down with Fionn Whitehead, Asim Chaudhry and Will Poulter to discuss all things Bandersnatch. What follows are their options on everything from social media […]