In the not-so-distant future, the U.S, government has developed the “American Peace Initiative,” commonly known as A.P.I. It’s essentially a piercing signal that, when deployed, prohibits a person’s thoughts regarding the practice of criminal behaviors — unleashing “the cop within,” according to its slogan. Announcers and electronic billboards count down …
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If you’re looking for a dumb, disposable action movie in which Chris Hemsworth relentlessly shoots generic bad guys with only a few quick breaks to tend to his wounds and feel sorry for himself, Extraction is the movie for you. Actually, this R-rated Netflix bullet ballet is built for the …
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At the time of his death, Aaron Hernandez was only 27, but he’d already lived many lives. Born to a middle-class Puerto Rican household in Bristol, Connecticut, Hernandez had been a star in athletics basically as long as he could hold a ball. And by the time he started playing …
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Netflix has canceled The OA, the mind-bending fantasy-drama series co-created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, four months after launching its second and assumedly final season. The show, which debuted in December 2016, starred Marling as Prairie Johnson, a once-blind woman who returns home after being missing for seven years, …
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Netflix released three teaser-trailers for the sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror Season Five, to premiere exclusively on the streaming platform on June 5th. Netflix also revealed the titles for the three-episode season. The first episode, Smithereens, centers around a cab driver with a hidden agenda. It will star Andrew Scott …
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Three Puerto Rican families displaced by Hurricane Maria struggle to rebuild their lives and return home in the trailer for the new documentary, After Maria. The 37-minute film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and will arrive on Netflix May 24th. After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, countless …
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A terrible injustice alters the lives of five young men of color in the first trailer for Ava DuVernay’s upcoming series about the Central Park Five, When They See Us, premiering May 31st on Netflix. The simple clip boasts a chilling sequence in which one of the boys mills about …
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A Bahamian cook who lost her life savings in the aftermath of the disastrous Fyre Festival has been reimbursed and then some thanks to a fundraising effort that followed her appearance in the Netflix documentary Fyre. As Maryann Rolle tearfully recounted in the film, she drained $50,000 from her life …
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Filmmakers Tim Miller (Deadpool) and David Fincher (Gone Girl, Fight Club) will unite to executive produce Love, Death & Robots, an upcoming animated anthology series for Netflix. The 185-minute project will feature 18 short pieces – each five to 15 minutes long and aimed at adult audiences – spanning science …
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When Fred Armisen began putting together his 2018 Netflix special Standup for Drummers, the last thing he expected to come out of it was a Grammy nomination. After all, as the title clearly states, this was a comedy show where the vast majority of the jokes were specifically about the …
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