Game of Thrones' David Benioff and D. B. Weiss reward Netflix's $200 million 2019 exclusivity gamble with a long overdue - and second out of the gate - adaptation of the acclaimed Chinese sci-fi novel... and it's a heady slice of likely divisive hard sci-fi.
Where to watch the 2024 Oscar best picture nominees
by Andy Bassett
UPDATED with winners 11-Mar-2024: With the 2024 Oscar ceremony having just taken place, we look at the streaming services where you can quickly catch this year’s best film nominees so you can now 'agree to disagree' with the Academy's choices if you so wish.
Continuing her run of Netflix starring vehicles, Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown takes on a competently designed CG dragon in a flabby, frivolous piece of perfectly tolerable night-in entertainment.
Somewhat insanely, Guy Ritchie's created/written/directed TV spin-off to his 2019 movie of the same name is great fun, chock full of colourful characters, bursting with witty dialogue, and utterly bingeworthy.
Left to languish on Netflix’s shelves for three years after its completion, Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan’s trip to just a couple of clicks on past Solaris is an admirable failure that may find a second life as a cure for arachnophobia…
Charlie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" Kaufman writes a Dreamworks animation for Netflix based on a kid's book about confronting your worst fears?
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Movies & TV Shows
Ginny & Georgia Season 1 (Netflix) TV Show Review
by Cas Harlow
Digging into what makes Netflix viewers click, we roll out on the Top 10 most viewed productions with one of their all-time most popular shows to see what the fuss is about.
The harrowing and terrifying yet spiritually uplifting telling of a true tale that belies as well as embodies what it means to be human is a cinematic masterclass from director J.A. Bayona.
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (Netflix) Movie Review
by Cas Harlow
Zack Snyder's pitched Star Wars-esque sci-fi epic franchise thingy plops on Netflix, and is about as well-received as anybody expected, making you wonder how on earth anybody is going to make it to Part 4.
Bradley Cooper's sophomore symphony doesn't hit the raw, accomplished notes of A Star is Born, but is an impressively staged biopic nonetheless, with committed lead performances.
The Crown Season 6 - The Final Season (Netflix) TV Show Review
by Cas Harlow
Dropping its final ever 6 episodes, the latter half of its sixth and final season, The Crown doesn't exactly go out on a high, but does offer a modicum of closure.
Adam Sandler curiously nudges his recent Netflix average into more hit than miss with this charming and surprisingly insightful look at both teaching and parenting through the eyes of... a lizard.
Everyone’s favourite slightly toxic lovable loser Scott Pilgrim is back. But here's a question: A comic, a movie, a videogame and now an Edgar Wright produced Netflix anime, haven't we seen this story before? Answer: No.
A return to form for the classic footballing franchise before it makes a fresh start in FM25? Hang on, it looks like we’re going to the videogame assistant referee…
The Killer gives David Fincher an opportunity to round up all the skills he’s honed as a director. But no matter how well-drawn the characters, or how taught the component pieces, disappointingly, it’s all in service of some very tired hitman revenge plot beats.
Takeshi Miike directs this samurai demon-slaying show based on the Capcom videogame universe, bringing the greatest samurai actor who ever lived back to life for one last epic battle.
Absolutely one of the finest Netflix productions ever put together, created by the co-writer of Blade Runner 2049 and Logan, Blue Eye Samurai is visually stunning, brutally bloody, kinetically action-packed and fabulously unravelled over an epic 8 episodes and 6 hours.
All the Light We Cannot See (Netflix) Limited Series TV Show Review
by Cas Harlow
Based on Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, directed by Stranger Things' Shawn Levy and scripted by Peaky Blinders' Steven Knight, Netflix's lavish WWII adaptation paints a piteous portrait of war and greed, but is it worth 4 hours of your life?
Blunt and Evans take a fat paycheque to portray loathsome drug reps who take a fat paycheque to persuade slimy doctors to take a fat paycheque to push a drug that everyone on the pyramid knows kills people. The end.
Netflix raises its prices in the UK and US with immediate effect
by Ian Collen
French users are also among the first to see the latest round of subscription increases, with the ad-free Basic and Premium packages going up by a pound or two.
The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix) TV Show Review
by Cas Harlow
Edgar Allen Poe’s short story gets drawn long for another effective Mike “Netflix horror TV” Flanagan effort which slow burns its horrific shocks as it unleashes the unthinkable.
Continuing a hell of a strong streak of movies on Netflix, Fair Play is another tremendous effort - and another impressive directorial debut - somewhat surprisingly delivering palpably intense thrills from what is, essentially, a sexually-fuelled exploration of cutthroat hedge management and gender politics.
Fusing dystopian backdrop with survival-at-sea thrills with... heavy pregnancy, Nowhere is a surprisingly effective and unflinchingly graphic little survival piece.
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Movies & TV Shows
Castlevania: Nocturne (Netflix) Season 1 TV Show Review
by Tom Davies
Castlevania is reborn in Netflix's new animated series 'Nocturne' bringing a whole new cast of demon hunters to hold back the tides of darkness, now threatening to overrun revolutionary France. Can the show carry on without Dracula?
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Netflix) Movie Review
by Cas Harlow
The first of a series of short film adaptations of Roald Dahl short stories, Wes Anderson - after The Fantastic Mr. Fox - once again proves to be the perfect match for these classic Dahl works. UPDATED with reviews of all 4 Short Films.
Grant Singer's directorial debut will certainly garner him some well-earned attention, affording choice leading roles for Benicio del Toro and Alicia Silverstone, and unspooling a dark and twisty crime drama with surprising confidence.
Maintaining the unbearably tense modus operandi of his previous Boiling Point, writer/director Philip Barantini targets a topical social media themed home invasion thriller with sofa-gripping results.
Who Is Erin Carter? (Netflix) Limited TV Series Review
by Cas Harlow
It's the kind of title that risks generating a 'Who cares?!' response if not handled right, but Netflix's latest potentially generic offering has enough unfolding mystery and thrill hijinks to make for a decent 7-episode binge.
Gal Gadot turns secret agent in a thunderously average CG-drowned spy caper that does everything just about sufficiently and nothing memorably whatsoever…
Eking out Henry Cavill's final run as The Witcher, Netflix finally drops its second half of Season 3, which contains the best episode of Witcher so far - and also concludes so painfully open-ended that you may be tempted to not bother watching it at all.
Jackie Chan's Hidden Strike (Netflix) Movie Review
by Cas Harlow
Yes, it's another Chinese production with too much fake VFX and convoluted plot padding, but the last half hour is some of the most fun classic-ish Chan in years, with some insane Fast & Furious vehicular mayhem thrown in for good measure.
A European spin-off to the Netflix smash original, this Spanish set dystopian nightmare looks and sounds very different to its originator, but sadly it feels far too alike in terms of its story…
Late to the party, we recommend Netflix's action drama Bloodhounds; the latest highly bingeable South Korean show, seeing a pair of ex-Marines-turned-boxers Oldboy-punching their way through a succession of viciously brutal debt collectors.