To echo what Zac Efron says on the Lima, Peru, ep of Down to Earth with Zac Efron, the muliti-hyphenate’s new Netflix travelogue, the Earth is burning. We know this, we’ve known this. We have seen it, felt it, smelled it. (R.I.P. Lewis). From beneath you it devours, after all. Previously on the pandemic, China’s […]
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Hot Centurian Summer
They are skilled beyond humanly possible. Secretive. Into privacy and anonymity. They are a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die, men and women who have fought to protect the mortal world for centuries, OK. They are The Old Guard, and they are led by Oscar winner Charlize Theron, and they […]
The Thing About Pete Davidson
The thing about Pete Davidson is his new Netflix special, Alive from New York, made me wish the streamer’s rating system would include an “It’s OK” button. Like, I thought that the special was fine, but also that it found its legs only toward the end, when the SNL-er’s stories got more deeply personal and […]
Everybody Comes to…
Y’ know: They wanna make it in the neighborhood. Coming soon to Netflix, just in time for summer, is Hollywood, the new “Ryan Murphy” show (his longtime collaborators, Ian Brennan and Alexis Martin Woodall, are also involved, as is Janet Mock from FX’s Pose). Described as a love letter to a day gone by, Hollywood […]
La Genteficación Será Transmitida
De estreno en Netflix en febrero – tal vez para llenar el vacío que dejó One Day at a Time, pero definitivamente para representar a La Raza – está Gentefied, una comedia dramática creada por Marvin Lemus y Linda Yvette Chávez, dos escritores chicanos de primera generación, que sirve como una carta de amor bilingüe […]
Here She Comes, Miss Americana
Taylor Swift is following up her late-2018 Netflix reputation Stadium Tour concert film with the 2020 Sundance Film Festival-bound Miss Americana, a bio-doc that’s set to premiere on the streamer this spring. Produced by the team behind the Oscar-winning 20 Feet from Stardom and helmed by Film Independent Spirit Award-nominated documentary director Lana Wilson (The […]
Gone for the Weekend
Not really, but the eagerly awaited sixth season of the Emmy-nominated Grace and Frankie, starring the indomitable Jane Fonda and the one-of-a-kind Lily Tomlin, is live on Netflix now, today, so….
We Need and Are Going to Talk About Aaron Hernandez
I suppose, perhaps, if I still lived in Miami, where I know this name will resonate among people I know and who are actually into football, then I’d be more…excited – I know, I know, that’s hardly the right word – about Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez, which is coming to Netflix in […]
She Did That
Coming this spring to Netflix, Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer will star as Madam C. J. Walker on Self Made, a four-part period piece based on the biography by Walker’s great-great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles, about the woman, the legend, the philanthropist and sociopolitical activist and, whaddya know (or don’t), America’s first female self-made millionaire. Bet they […]
The Thing About Charles Dance
The Emmy Award-nominated actor (HBO’s Game of Thrones) made me think, when I saw his big “Coup” episode of The Crown on the Netflix, that, as an immigrant, his Lord Moundbatten was thankful for his adoptive homeland’s reception, and for all that he’d been able to squeeze out of it, but that now, he was […]
