An opulent coastal setting, a dead body, a bunch of quick shots of police interrogations, and Nicole Kidman. It’s not Big Little Lies season three — it’s The Perfect Couple, the star-studded Netflix limited series that has released a full trailer just a couple of days ahead of its Sept. 5 premiere date. The trailer (watch …
The somewhat unlikely blockbuster success of Terminator 2: Judgment Day — a high-budget sequel that upended the entire plot of a low-budget original released nearly a decade before — led Hollywood to learn the wrong lessons. Rather than attribute the box office to James Cameron’s creative versatility, the industry decided that audiences must have an …
As Netflix’s The Decameron begins, nearly all of our characters are retreating. They might not put it in quite those terms, but it’s exactly what these characters are doing: flocking to the “beautiful, not-infected countryside,” as one character puts it, in hopes of waiting out the Black Plague currently tearing through the continent. But it …
The premise of Netflix‘s Exploding Kittens will sound like the stuff of wacky comic fantasy — unless, that is, you have cats. Speaking as someone who does, I’ve called my boys perfect angels and demon spawns in the same breath; I’ve seen them go from snuggling to fighting to cuddling again in the space of …
Netflix has found the three leads for its upcoming limited series Sirens. Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy and Milly Alcock will star in the series, which comes from Maid creator Molly Smith Metzler and Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap banner. Fahy (The White Lotus) and Alcock (House of the Dragon) will play sisters drawn into the world of …
Going back to the immigrant/foundling who became Superman, the superhero genre has often been used as an exploration of what happens when people from variably disenfranchised groups find themselves with unexpected levels of power. Whether the result leads to enhanced altruism or diabolical megalomania is the difference between a hero and a villain. Not all …