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‘Unit 42’ Season 1 Review: Belgian Netflix Series Brings Widowed Cop & Hacker Together

June 14 2019, by Daniel Hart

Belgian Netflix series Unit 42 Season 1 pits together two characters on opposite ends of the spectrum. Samuel Leroy (Patrick Ridremont) is widowed and has...

Charité at War Review: Netflix Series Presents Compelling Hospital Drama In Nazi Germany

June 14 2019, by Daniel Hart

The Netflix content machine churns out another German series, basing itself in a hospital during 1943, tackling the politics of war and the revelations of...

Awake: The Million Dollar Game Review: Winning With Sleep Deprivation

June 14 2019, by Daniel Hart

If anything, Netflix original Awake: The Million Dollar Game proves we are running out of ideas for game show formats. Netflix continues to throw their dice...

The Alcasser Murders Review: Another True Crime Series Arrives on Netflix

June 14 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Another week, another true crime series graces Netflix — this one based on the notorious 1992 rape and murder of three 14-year-old girls in Alcasser,...

Leila Review: A Bold, Challenging Indian Original Series

June 14 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

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

June 12 2019, by Daniel Hart

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

June 7 2019, by Daniel Hart

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

June 7 2019, by Daniel Hart

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?

June 7 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

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?

June 7 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

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

June 7 2019, by Daniel Hart

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

June 6 2019, by Daniel Hart

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”

June 5 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

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

June 5 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

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

June 3 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

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

June 1 2019, by Daniel Hart

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

May 31 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

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?

May 31 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

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...