Comedian Hannah Gadsby slammed Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos over the streaming service’s response to the controversy regarding the Dave Chappelle special The Closer. In a leaked Netflix memo defending Chappelle’s special — which has drawn criticism both from subscribers and Netflix’s own transgender employees — Sarandos cited LGBTQ-friendly titles like …
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Netflix has released the first trailer for Monster, the Anthony Mandler-directed legal drama based on the novel of the same name by Walter Dean Myers. The film first premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and it’s finally getting a wide release on Netflix’s streaming platform on May 7th. Monster stars …
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ALLEN v. FARROW HBO is releasing an investigative documentary film on the accusation of sexual abuse against Woody Allen involving Dylan, his then seven-year-old daughter with Mia Farrow. Using home videos, court documents, police evidence, and never-before-released audio tapes, the film goes deeper than the headlines ever have, to examine …
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Netflix has released the trailer for its new reality series about the super-wealthy, Bling Empire. The series is centered around a group of Asian and Asian American friends/frenemies living in Los Angeles. As the show’s synopsis reads, “While their days and nights are filled with fabulous parties and expensive shopping …
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In the new, cancellation-happy era of Netflix (the latest victims: the fun yet thoughtful Teenage Bounty Hunters, the un-renewed cult favorite GLOW), it seems the safest thing a creator can make is not a sprawling tale requiring many seasons, but something tight and cancel-proof, like a limited series or an …
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Pharrell Williams will executive produce and appear in an unscripted Netflix series about his efforts to build “one of the world’s most inspiring gospel choirs” in his hometown of Hampton Roads, Virginia. Voices of Fire will premiere on the streaming service later in 2020, Williams announced Sunday at the virtual …
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The long-running television series Unsolved Mysteries teased its return on Netflix with a new trailer that features a look at its fresh batch of creepy, eerie and inexplicable cases. Unsolved Mysteries originally aired on NBC between 1987 and 1997, jumped to CBS for two more seasons and then eventually became …
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As nationwide quarantine stretches into its second month, many of us have become surprisingly capable home cooks, and many of us are sick and tired of cooking. Samin Nosrat is here to guide us all. A New York Times food columnist and the host of Netflix‘s hit series Salt Fat …
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“Movies don’t just show us how the world is — they show us how it can be,” director Raymond Ansley (Darren Criss) argues in the new Netflix miniseries Hollywood. This isn’t just his mission statement, but that of Hollywood’s creators, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. The seven-episode tale is equal …
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Towards the end of the new season of Netflix‘s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Sabrina Spellman, the teenage witch of Archie Comics fame, finds herself hypnotized by a vampire. “You’re going to let me drink your blood and feast on your flesh, aren’t you?” he whispers. He bites into her …
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