While Ryan Gosling and Chris Evan’s leading characters in Netflix’s The Gray Man had their own CIA-rooted operations, the streaming giant was on a mission of its own: to launch a lucrative action franchise to rival the Mission: Impossiblesand John Wicks of the world. Now, Netflix has set its plan …
Read More »Billie Eilish Takes David Letterman Go-Kart Racing, Happily Ignores Rules
Billie Eilish is among David Letterman’s upcoming guests for the new season of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, which returns to Netflix on Friday. It’s the first new season in nearly two years. In a clip from her appearance on the show, Eilish takes Letterman for some spins around …
Read More »'Procession' Isn't a Documentary on Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church — It's a Portrait of Survivors Reclaiming Their Lives
Robert Greene wanted to do something unusual. The filmmaker behind such blurred-line experimental documentaries as Kate Plays Christine (2016) and Bisbee ’17 (2018) had seen a Kansas City press conference, in which an attorney named Rebecca Randles and her clients — four men who’d been abused by Catholic priests as …
Read More »Britney Spears' Conservatorship Gets the Doc Treatment Once Again in 'Britney vs. Spears'
Netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming documentary about Britney Spears and the fight to end her conservatorship, Britney vs. Spears. The film was helmed by director Erin Lee Carr and journalist Jenny Eliscu (Eliscu has previously profiled Spears for Rolling Stone on multiple occasions). As a release …
Read More »'Dear White People' Goes Musical for Season 4: Watch the Trailer
Dear White People takes the musical route for its fourth season, as revealed in the new trailer that Netflix released on Tuesday. The show returns Wednesday, September 22nd to the streaming platform. Vol. 4 sees the students returning to the Winchester campus in a post-pandemic world, where the future of …
Read More »Maya Hawke Flees a Knife-Wielding Maniac in Clip From 'Fear Street Part One: 1994'
Netflix has released the opening five minutes from the first installment of its upcoming horror trilogy, Fear Street, which premieres on the streaming service Friday, July 2nd. The Fear Street series is set up in part one with a story set in 1994 and centered around a group of teenagers …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: Fincher's 'Mank,' 'Grand Army,' 'My Next Guest,' 'Unsolved Mysteries,' and More
Grand Army The details of the new drama’s plot may still be a little fuzzy, but the anxieties and joys of what it means to be finding your way as a teenager are palpably clear. Glimpses of highschool hallway interactions, athletic practices, and relationships both new and strained flash together …
Read More »Netflix Explores the New York Mafia Takedown in 'Fear City' Trailer
Netflix has released the trailer for Fear City, a three-part series about the Mafia takedown in New York City during the 1970s. The series premieres July 22nd on the streaming platform. Created by the same production company as the docuseries Don’t F*ck With Cats, Fear City explores a derelict time in New …
Read More »'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt' Shares Trailer for Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Special
Ellie Kemper’s Kimmy Schmidt foils the nefarious plot of the crazy reverend who kidnapped her — or maybe doesn’t — in the new trailer for the interactive Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt special, Kimmy vs. the Reverend, premiering May 12th on Netflix. The film finds former “mole woman” Kimmy Schmidt preparing to …
Read More »Hannah Gadsby's New Standup Special 'Douglas' Is Named After Her Dog
Hannah Gadsby: Douglas, the second Netflix comedy special by the Tasmanian comedian, will premiere on the streaming platform this spring, on May 26th. Gadsby named the new special after her eldest dog Douglas, and in a press release, the show is described as “a tour from the dog park to …
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