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As we settle into 2021 and await our turn in the vaccination queue, there’s plenty to keep us entertained on Netflix until we get to the front of the line.
The world’s largest TV and film streaming service, Netflix, is increasing prices, and for UK customers on the top tier this will mean a rise to £13.99 per month.
2020 has been a tough old year for cinema, and while that's led to a scarcity of blockbuster spectacle, we certainly haven't been deprived of quality filmmaking.
A wonderful addition to Netflix’s slate of films, a fitting tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman, and a welcome break from the wall-to-wall Christmas romcoms dominating the homepage at the moment.
Updated 12-Jan-2021: New year, new hopes, new vaccines, 2021 will bring many things that we’re looking forward to but one thing’s for sure, there will also be new content from the world’s largest streamer.
Fincher's deep dive into the life of Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, who clashed with volatile genius Orson Welles on his magnum opus, is a beautiful film about the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Updated 14th Dec: 2020 will soon draw to a close and most will be glad to see the back of it, so just how does the world’s largest streaming service plan to see out the world’s annus horriblis?
Kurt Russell returns for a well-meaning, bigger budget, but slightly less endearing follow-up to last year's surprisingly enjoyable Christmas Chronicles, which should at least remind us that the Holidays are coming.
Based on a controversial best-seller by J.D. Vance, Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy is ostensibly a true story, though the film goes out of its way to make it seem like pure cinematic fiction.
Netflix's impressively lavish drama, The Crown, returns for a momentous fourth season, weaving pivotal icons Thatcher and Diana into The Queen's narrative.
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (Netflix) Movie Review
by Kumari Tilakawardane
Like it or not, it’s pretty much the most wonderful time of the year. Even through lockdowns, a pandemic and worldwide upheaval, Christmas does not care about your melancholy. Not keen on all this Christmas spirit and seasonal magic? You should probably steer clear of Jingle Jangle, which is not merely just a Christmas film, but also a musical to boot.
Jeb 'Die Hard' Stuart's new project for Netflix is the story of one of the Second World War's most diverse units and its harrowing and brutal 500 day trek from Sicily to Dachau. But does its live action/animation blend work?
Xbox Series X and Series S streaming apps confirmed
by Andy Bassett
Microsoft recently posted a blog article confirming the home entertainment streaming apps that will be available for its latest consoles and the list includes the Disney+ streaming service, Apple TV, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
From the animation studios behind Netflix's highly acclaimed Castlevania comes this impressive mythological actioner in the vein of Clash of the Titans and The Immortals.
Top 10 Halloween Movies on Amazon, Netflix and 4K Blu-ray
by Simon Crust
Halloween is the perfect opportunity to dust off those horror movies and give yourself a good scare! Check out our 10 Halloween Horror films guaranteed to have you screaming!
If you’re reading this thinking that a period drama series about a female teenage chess prodigy isn’t for you, hold on a second. The Queen’s Gambit might have a very niche premise, but you definitely don’t need to be a Grandmaster to be hooked…
Pearl Studios, the Chinese production company behind Abominable, teams up with Netflix Animation for its second movie, a familiar-feeling but no less engaging romp into Chinese mythology, which has more than a little Tron: Legacy-lite at its core.
Winter’s here, nights are longer and Covid-19 just won’t go away. The good news is that Netflix is one way of forgetting about the woes of the outside world and it’s clear the streaming giant intends to ramp up its Christmas feel good content in a big way.
Netflix's Rebecca: A film about being haunted by the memory of someone with your title who is far more beloved than you and whose standards you can never live up to. Yikes. Meta.
Though Sorkin’s ideology and politics and whatever else can feel a bit much at times, The Trial of the Chicago 7 is still a great watch and is a high-quality courtroom drama.
Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Premiere (Netflix) TV Show Review
by Cas Harlow
Star Trek: Discovery premieres its third season without any sign of the actual Discovery, leaving the show - and the constipatedly earnest lead character of Burnham - free from the shackles of formula, and with a great new co-star to keep her in check.
The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix) TV Show Review
by Tom Davies
Mike Flanagan steps back to produce the second season of his successful 'The Haunting of...' anthology. But between a poorly observed script and terminal lack of scares, it's unlikely to match the popularity of its predecessor.
Twenty-eight films into their 4-film distribution deal with Adam Sandler, and Netflix churns out another harmless bit of all-star nonsense, repurposing a spin on Sandler's Waterboy character for this very mildly engaging stupidity.
Picked up by Netflix just two weeks after it hit cinemas, the indie drama Rocks is a magnificent slice of raw teen life that would sit comfortably alongside the likes of The Florida Project and Fish Tank.
Netflix's franchise-in-the-making adaptation of the first book in Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes series affords us the teen-centric Sherlock movie nobody asked for, but also gives Millie Bobby Brown another opportunity to utterly shine.
Updated 24-Sep-2020: September gave us a pretty good choice of new Netflix shows and films and, moving into the last quarter of 2020, the world’s number one streaming service looks to be keeping up its game for October.
More American Horror Story than anything even tangentially related to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ryan Murphy's Ratched is full of Bernard Herrmann's sound and Sarah Paulson's fury, but offers nothing new, and plenty old.
Antonio Campos dives once again into the causes and repercussions of trauma with his adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock's deconstruction of small-town America's reliance on Christianity.
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (Netflix) Movie Review
by Kumari Tilakawardane
If you loved The Babysitter, no doubt you’ll be lining this one up in your Netflix queue anyway; just don’t expect it to live up to the highs of the first film.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix) Movie Review
by Tom Davies
Charlie Kaufman returns with an adaptation of Iain Reid's mind and genre-bending novel and it's his most assured directorial effort yet. A film about wanting to break up with someone...Sort of...Not really.
Given that we’ve all spent the last six months longing for a bit more space, Netflix’s drama about the first manned mission to Mars should really be something of a hit.
UPDATED: 24th August. August was a quiet month for all the streaming services in terms of standout original content being released, so can Netflix shake September up a bit?
Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt unsurprisingly elevate Netflix's latest superpowered product, a fun enough, rap-fuelled bit of typically baggy but pleasantly bombastic Friday night frivolity.
The Umbrella Academy Season 2 (Netflix) TV Show Review
by Cas Harlow
Netflix's answer to DC's Doom Patrol made a hell of a bow in its first season, here struggles to quite find a purpose in its sophomore year but still provides a bloody entertaining diversion.