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Watch This! Women’s wrestling – eighties style – in the Netflix comedy ‘Glow’
Alison Brie is a frustrated actress who takes on a different kind of theater in the new Netflix comedy series Glow, set in the culture of women’s wrestling in eighties Los Angeles. The series, created by Nurse Jackie veterans Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch (also a writer and producer on Orange is the New Black), […]
Watch This! The first full trailer for ‘The Defenders’
Netflix dropped its first full-length trailer for The Defenders, the superhero team series that will unite Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter), and Iron Fist (Finn Jones), the four grounded New York heroes of the Netflix MCU. This is the first real footage of the heroes interacting and in action […]
Watch This! Old faces return in Showtime’s ‘Twin Peaks’ revival
Prepare for the return of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks with a look at some familiar faces 25 years later, including Big Ed Hurley (Everett McGill), Carl Rodd (Harry Dean Stanton), Sarah Palmer (Grace Zabriskie), Deputy Andy Brennan (Harry Goaz), Deputy Tommy “Hawk” Hill (Michael Horse), and FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan). Twin Peaks, […]
Watch This! The new ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Coming to Netflix
Almost twenty years after the final curtain of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on the Sci-Fi Channel, the bots and the bad movies are back and Netflix has them. Joel Hodgson, co-creator of the original series, spearheaded the revival of the beloved Mystery Science Theater 3000, the show that turned heckling the movies into appointment TV. […]
Watch This! ‘American Playboy’ coming to Amazon Prime
The ten-part series American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story, a mix of documentary and dramatic recreation (with Matt Whelan as the young Hugh Hefner), profiles the man, the brand, and the lifestyle he advocated through his magazine and his clubs. From the press release: Produced by the Emmy Award-winning Stephen David Entertainment and Alta Loma […]
Watch This! ‘Bosch: Season 3’ coming to Amazon Prime
Titus Welliver is back as LAPD Detective Harry Bosch in the Amazon Original Series based on the novels of Michael Connelly. From the press release: In season three, based on Connelly’s best-selling novels “The Black Echo” and “A Darkness More than Night,” Bosch’s teenage daughter, Maddie, has come to live with him and ushered into […]
Watch This! Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Okja’ coming to Netflix
Okja, Bong Joon-Ho’s follow-up to Snowpiercer, will debut globally on Netflix in June, with limited theatrical release in the U.S. the same day it debuts on Netflix. Jake Gyllenhaal, Lily Collins. Paul Dano, and Tilda Swinton star in the science fiction thriller about a young girl (Seohyun An) who must risk everything to prevent a […]
Watch This! ‘Bright’ coming to ‘Netflix’
Here’s a long-range teaser for Netflix. Bright isn’t coming out until December 2017 but Netflix is letting everyone know that it has won the bidding war. It is investing $90 million in the film starring Will Smith as a human cop in a world shared with orcs, elves and fairies, and other mythical creatures. The […]
Watch This! Oscar nominated ‘4.1 Miles’ streaming free
4.1 Miles follow a day in the life of a coast guard captain from the Greek island of Lesbos who spends his days rescuing refugees fleeing their war torn countries across in often dangerous vessels across the Mediterranean. Greek-born, San Francisco-based filmmaker and journalist Daphne Matziaraki earned an Academy Award nomination for her debut short, which […]