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Bridgerton season 2 set for March premiere on Netflix

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As Netflix’s hit series Bridgerton celebrates its first anniversary, the streamer has announced in a new video the second season’s premiere date. Featuring the Bridgerton cast, including the season’s new leads Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley, they reveal that the series will return on March 25th, 2022. Watch the announcement video below… The second season of Bridgerton will follow Bailey’s Anthony […]

The Witcher showrunner on future spin-offs and “other ideas” for Netflix franchise

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Netflix has found a fair amount of success in adapting Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher fantasy series. The second season premiered on the streaming service a couple weeks ago, but there is also the prequel series The Witcher: Blood Origin set to premiere next year as well as this year’s The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf anime film. With The Witcher having […]

Netflix shares trailer for Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s sci-fi comedy Bigbug

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Netflix has released a trailer for director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s (Amelie) sci-fi comedy Bigbug which follows four suburbanites as they find themselves taken hostage by their well-intentioned domestic robots in order to keep them safe from an uprising led by the latest generation of androids; watch it here… In 2050, artificial intelligence is everywhere. So much […]

Movie Review – Malcolm & Marie (2021)

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Malcolm & Marie, 2021. Written and Directed by Sam Levinson. Starring Zendaya and John David Washington. SYNOPSIS: A director and his girlfriend’s relationship is tested after they return home from his movie premiere and await critics’ responses. A blistering examination of a love/hate relationship on the brink of collapsing, Malcolm & Marie steamrolls from one […]

Netflix’s The Witcher prequel series Blood Origin gets a first trailer and images

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Netflix has released a teaser trailer and images for its upcoming fantasy prequel series The Witcher: Blood Origin, which explores the creation of the first prototype Witcher and and the events that lead the worlds of men, monsters and elves merging into one; take a look here… Every story has a beginning. Witness the untold […]

Netflix developing TV adaptation of action western comic The Hated

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Netflix has snapped up the rights to David F. Walker’s action western comic book The Hated for a live-action TV adaptation, which is being developed by Emmy-nominated writer and executive producer Michael Starrbury (When They See Us, Colin in Black & White). The Hated is described as “a female-driven post-Civil War revisionist history western” and […]

Spike Lee & Netflix come together for multi-year creative deal

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Following the critically acclaimed and award-winning film Da 5 Bloods, another collaboration between Netflix and Spike Lee seemed like a surefire idea. The streamer is a perfect place for the iconic filmmaker, and it looks like they agree as well since they’ve signed a multi-year deal together. Lee will direct and produce narrative films via […]

Movie Review – The Hand of God (2021)

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The Hand of God, 2021. Directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Starring Filippo Scotti, Luisa Ranieri, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Massimiliano Gallo, Renato Carpentieri, Marlon Joubert and Betti Pedrazzi. SYNOPSIS: An aspiring filmmaker in Naples must navigate sex, coming of age and tragedy against the backdrop of Diego Maradona’s much-heralded arrival in the city. Football has immense […]

Movie Review – The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)

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The Mitchells vs. the Machines, 2021. Written and Directed by Michael Rianda and Jeff Rowe. Featuring the voice talents of Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Michael Rianda, Eric André, Olivia Colman, Blake Griffin, Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, Charlyne Yi, Conan O’Brien, Sasheer Zamata, Elle Mills, Jay Pharoah, Alex Hirsch, and […]