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Netflix Review – Transformers: War for Cybertron – Siege

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: War for Cybertron – Siege… After a few lighter TV series over the past several years, the Transformers franchise returns to a darker and more serious vision in Transformers: War for Cybertron – Siege. While the latest animated series from Netflix and Red vs Blue creator Rooster Teeth doesn’t stray too far from […]

Netflix Review – The Umbrella Academy Season 2

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Shaun Munro reviews the second season of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy… There’s no sophomore slump for The Umbrella Academy, which returns to screens with a vibrant second season that’s at least as smart, thrilling, funny, and heartfelt as what came before – if not a touch more so. If the basic narrative through-line once again […]

Black Desert launches crossover event with Netflix’ Cursed

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Pearl Abyss and Kakao Games have announced that they will be introducing crossover content from the new series on Netflix, Cursed, to Black Desert on all platforms.  This content will feature a new Cursed themed questline and will arrive on PC tomorrow 29th July, on Xbox One and PS4 on 5th August and for those […]

Millie Bobby Brown to star as a con artist in The Girls I’ve Been

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Deadline has reported Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown is set to star in and produce The Girls I’ve Been, an adaptation of Tess Sharpe’s upcoming novel. The film will be released on Netflix with Jason Bateman (Ozark) producing. The Girls I’ve Been is “a twisty, exhilarating thriller centering around a con artist, Nora, who must use […]

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 […]