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Ricky Gervais returns for the only third season he's ever done, to finish off loose ends in Netflix's bitterly funny and warmly bittersweet After Life.  

UPDATED 18-JAN-2022: Valentine’s Day is approaching and Netflix is wining and dining subscribers with content packed full of romance, love and steamy embraces… and an updated Texas Chainsaw Massacre.  

Spies and Samurai, Scorsese and the Spider-Verse, Strange and Sam Raimi - 2022 is shaping up to be stunning, but the real question is will Top Gun: Maverick finally get released?  

Maggie Gyllenhaal's strikingly assured directorial debut will likely garner a lot of attention, not least for a trifecta of excellent performances from Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley and Dakota Johnson.  

Adam McKay's Chicken Little for adults is just shy of being funny, just shy of being insightful and just shy of being a good movie. What it isn't shy of is impotently railing at the stupidity of government and media.  

An almost unparalleled year of unmissable TV. Audiences may still be navigating their return to the cinema but let's take a look at 10 reasons to stay home.  

Netflix's adaptation of the massively popular book and videogame series returns for a strong sophomore year, with more swords, sorcery and supernatural SFX.  

UPDATED 13-Jan-2022: While the original movie content might be a bit slow at the start of 2022, there’s a spate of returning Netflix series alongside a few intriguing new ones.  

Stunningly animated, superbly scored, perfectly voice acted, exquisitely unfolded, with wonderful world-building, and action and impact in equal measure, should Netflix's Arcane go straight to the top of your watchlist?  

Taking its cue from A Death in the Family, Under the Red Hood, No Man's Land, and Grant Morrison's run on Batman, could this be the best season of DC's Titans yet?  

Another show that somewhat surprisingly made it to a third season, does Netflix's Lost in Space go out with a fitting conclusion?  

Getting raw and digging deep for her directorial debut, Halle Berry reshapes herself for a punishing bout of Rocky/Warrior-channelling MMA torture with character pleasantly kept at the forefront.  

UPDATED 06-Dec-2021: With the final and most festive of months approaching, what delights has Netflix popped under the Christmas tree for subscribers? Let’s take a look...  

The genre defining “bounty hunter in space” story, Cowboy Bebop, returns to television screens after more than twenty years. Bringing live action and faithful production design but leaving behind the Real Folk Blues and, sadly, any heart.  

Star Trek: Discovery season 4 leaves Netflix’s orbit and instead warps over to the Paramount+ streaming service.  

Continuing the streak of thievery themed Netflix output, Red Notice is a vacuous husk of a heist movie with a lot of star power, some odd daddy issues, and very little else.  

Netflix has started streaming AV1 encoded movies and shows to members' TVs, delivering content more efficiently for benefits to image quality.  

Jeymes "The Bullitts" Samuel's directorial debut blasts onto the screen with a great ensemble cast, a fabulously energetic style and a delicious lyrical prowess, and also all the trappings of being associated with Netflix.  

Netflix has started a global rollout of its first video games to Android mobile users as it expands its content options beyond just video.  

With Netflix still intent on turning the disappointing Army of the Dead into a whole movie universe, their first spin-off is a slick but excessively long caper flick with a quirky, fun lead and precious little involvement from Snyder.  

Another sleeper TV gem from Netflix following on from the hit Squid Game, Maid balances weighty issues with a naturally inspirational cadence and is unmissable viewing.  

UPDATED 17-NOV-2021: With Halloween tucked back up in bed, the end of year seasonal snowball gathers apace with festive offerings, flagship series and some of Netflix’s more high profile films.  

Korea's answer to Battle Royale proves to be Netflix's sleeper hit, rightly taking the world by storm with an eminently bingeworthy nine episodes of insanity.  

Jake Gyllenhaal bursts a few blood vessels attempting to wring the maximum amount of tension out of this otherwise formulaic, glossy, Hollywood remake of the acclaimed Danish hit.  

A heady mix of Stephen King and… other, different Stephen King, new horror maestro, Mike Flanagan’s wholly original supernatural/religious fear-spinner comes to Netflix a full month before Halloween. Timing.  

UPDATED 17-SEP-2021: October means Halloween and Halloween means horror, so there's a supernatural tinged flavour to the month with the return of Locke & Key plus slasher thriller, There’s Someone in Your House.  

Mary Elizabeth Winstead commits to this bloody and brutal manga-style romp through the Yakuza underworld, which tries its damnedest to feel different even if it's ultimately pretty familiar.  

Dealing with one of the most emotionally complex elements of the post-9/11 fallout, Worth asks for answers on how to calculate the value of someone’s life and looking to the law, to mathematics, to logic, finds them wanting.  

Jason Momoa stars in a movie dealing with the weighty issue of unaffordable healthcare in the US and the impact of big pharma’s cutthroat attitude to cancer treatments on normal families… WITH PUNCH UPS.  

A surprisingly tasty blend of Promising Young Woman and American Horror Story, by way of Cronenberg.  

Tenet's John David Washington goes solo in this pretty Netflix-standard thriller.  

UPDATED 06-SEP-2021: As Ofcom’s latest survey shows more UK households with a Netflix subscription than a pay TV account for the first time, we take a look at what the streaming giant has in store for UK customers in September.  

From the singer, star and writer of Hamilton, and the director of The Croods, comes a vibrant and infectiously catchy musical which is another animated win for Netflix.  

As UK viewers watch nearly 6 hours of TV or on demand video per day, there are now more households with a Netflix subscription than a pay TV account for the first time, according to Ofcom's latest survey.  

He-Man’s back! Remember He-Man? He’s back! Kevin Smith pens a surprisingly enjoyable part soft-reboot, part continuation of the original toy advert. No, shut-up, listen, it’s actually pretty good. No, I promise it is!  

An unexpectedly eventful ride, Netflix's Vampire-on-a-Plane horror-thriller has got a surprisingly decent bite to it.  

Video streaming giant Netflix has confirmed it is moving towards delivering games for its subscribers as recent figures show a slowdown in growth.  

UPDATED: 06-Aug-2021: Sports fans have been treated to an almost normal summer of tournaments and fixtures with Wimbledon, the postponed Euro 2020 and the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. However, for those less athletically inclined, what can Netflix offer as alternative viewing for August?  

The first instalment of the Netflix acquired R.L. Stine trilogy is a slick but characterless rehash of the 1990s' "teen slasher" rehash of the 1970s' and 80s' "teen slasher" genre.  

Streaming video-on-demand services that operate in the UK such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ could soon be subject to the same rules and regulations as more traditional linear broadcasters like the BBC, ITV and Sky.