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Leila Review: A Bold, Challenging Indian Original Series
The six-episode first season of the new Indian Netflix Original Series Leila is just the right kind of near-future dystopian fiction. It’s deliberately provocative, challenging, and...
Life Overtakes Me Review: No Child Deserves This
Netflix documentary Life Overtakes Me provokes an emotional reaction I was not quite sure how to handle. The cameras follow refugee families who have fled to...
Rock My Heart Review: A Laidback Stable ‘Against All The Odds’ Story That Lacks Thrills
A girl with a heart defect that is at risk of death by strenuous exercise, and a man who owns land and stables and is...
‘Elisa & Marcela’ Review: Netflix Film Is A Slow-Moving Same-Sex Marriage Story
Netflix film Elisa & Marcela has been trounced before its consensus on Rotten Tomatoes. It can be assumed that the extensive sex scenes in the middle...
Tales of the City Review: Is Being Well-Meaning Enough?
Is it cynical of Netflix to capitalize on Pride Month? It’s good business, for sure, and perhaps that’s all that matters, especially when the streaming...
Pachamama Review: Was Juan Antin’s Environmentally-Conscious Animation Worth the Wait?
There’s a story behind Pachamama, Juan Antin’s environmentally-conscious fun-for-all-the-family animation that debuted on Netflix today. It’s a long one, winding back over a decade, and has...
The Chef Show Review: Yet Another Netflix Cooking Show To Make Us Hungry
With the release of The Chef Show, Netflix has such a catalogue of cooking shows that they may as well create their stand-alone platform dedicated...
‘All is well’ Review – Netflix Film Provides Sobering View On Sexual Assault
Netflix German film All is well reminded of a recent time when I listened to the radio to hear a horrifying trend that rape cases...
Black Mirror Season 5 Review: “Smithereens”
This Black Mirror Season 5 Episode 2 review for the episode titled “Smithereens” contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode...
Black Mirror Season 5 Review
Heading into its fifth season, Black Mirror remains one of the most oddly prescient, daringly eclectic and inherently contradictory shows in existence, and if its three-episode fifth...
Malibu Rescue Season 1 Review: Life’s A Beach
If, like me, you had the distinct displeasure of watching the prequel movie to this new teen-focused Netflix Original series, creatively titled Malibu Rescue: The Movie,...
Oh, Ramona! Review: From Nerd To 50 Shades
Netflix film Oh, Ramona! pitches a nerd so incredulously naive when it comes to interacting with women that it becomes the theme of the entire story....
How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast) Review: This Doesn’t Seem Like Good Advice
Provocative titles tend to do well for Netflix — just look at My Husband Won’t Fit — and so How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) is already off...
‘Killer Ratings’ Review: Did A TV Host Order Murders To Boost Ratings?
Don’t judge me for this, but if you’re the host of a TV show famous for arriving first at murder scenes, ordering those murders yourself...
Black Spot Review: Welcome To This Weekend’s Binge Watch
At the top of the list of places I wouldn’t like to live: Villefranche, an absurdly isolated (and thankfully fictional) small town buried in a...
When They See Us Recap: Getting The Story Right
This recap of When They See Us Episode 1 contains significant spoilers. Ava DuVernay’s Netflix Limited Series is based on the notorious events surrounding The...
When They See Us Recap: A Bittersweet Ending
This recap of When They See Us Episode 4 contains significant spoilers. Ava DuVernay’s Netflix Limited Series is based on the notorious events surrounding The...
When They See Us Recap: Adjustment
This recap of When They See Us Episode 3 contains significant spoilers. Ava DuVernay’s Netflix Limited Series is based on the notorious events surrounding The...