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The Umbrella Academy Season 2 image features a baby Pogo

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Netflix has released a new image from its upcoming second season of The Umbrella Academy, which features the Academy’s intelligent chimpanzee and surrogate father figure Pogo as a baby. Check it out here… Pogo was Sir Reginald Hargreeves’ assistant after he experimented on the chimp to turn him into an intelligent and talking animal. He was […]

Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy teaming with Netflix for time-travel action-adventure movie

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Actor Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy are set to follow their upcoming action comedy Free Guy by reuniting for an as-yet-untitled time-travel action-adventure set up at Netflix. Produced by Skydance Media, which recently worked with Reynolds and Netflix on Michael Bay’s 6 Underground, the film will see Reynolds starring “as a man who must […]

Netflix announces Witcher prequel series The Witcher: Blood Origin

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Early on Monday morning, we learned that Netflix’s The Witcher is set to expand as the streamer has announced a brand new series. Horror website Bloody Disgusting dropped the news that The Witcher: Blood Origin, a “six-part, live-action limited prequel series” will explore the origin of the very first Witcher. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich will join […]

The Crown season 5 won’t premiere on Netflix until 2022

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Though The Crown has already cast Imelda Staunton (Harry Potter) as Queen Elizabeth II and Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) as Princess Margaret for the series’ fifth season, Deadline has reported audiences won’t see their season until 2022 as the show will take a production break in between seasons four and five. The extended hiatus has always been […]

Extraction leads Netflix’s all-time top ten most-viewed original movies

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Although it has traditionally kept its viewing figures tightly under wraps, Netflix has slowly started to become more open about its stats – particularly when the streamer wants to tout the popularity of its latest Original. Well, following the massive success of May’s Extraction, Netflix has now announced that the Chris Hemsworth-headlined action thriller has […]

Give in to temptation with Lucifer season 5 poster

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With exactly a month to go until Lucifer returns, Netflix has released a new poster for the upcoming fifth season of the comic book adaptation which features lead stars Tom Ellis and Lauren German. Check it out below… SEE ALSO: Lucifer officially renewed for sixth and final season at Netflix Lucifer (Tom Ellis), bored and […]

Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles animated series coming to Netflix

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Stan Sakai’s long-running comic book series Usagi Yojimbo is coming to Netflix, with the streamer ordering an animated series entitled Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles. Produced By Gaumont in partnership with Sakai, the series takes place in the far future in a world that mixes modern high-tech images with classic Japanese references and follows the […]

Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans to star in the Russo Brothers’ espionage thriller The Gray Man

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The Russo Brothers’ have targeted their first big blockbuster film since Avengers: Endgame for what will be Netflix’s financially biggest production. According to Deadline, the pair have casted Ryan Gosling (Blade Runner 2049) and Chris Evans (Knives Out) in The Gray Man, an espionage thriller that will see Gosling and Evans battle it out as a […]

Netflix Review – Cursed

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Shaun Munro reviews the first season of Netflix’s Cursed… If the corpse of Guy Ritchie’s failed – yet actually quite entertaining – punk-rock blockbuster version of King Arthur is barely cold, there’s something to be said for a take on Arthurian legend which isn’t striving desperately for a multi-strand cinematic universe, and even dares to […]