The world is a mess, with global politics falling apart and terrorists essentially running countries. So a team of six people, lead by an eccentric billionaire, decide to take matters into their own hands.
In a future where everyone had implants that record everything they see and hear, what happens when people find ways to spoof the feeds, to disappear entirely? We take a look at the film to see just how well it depicts this future.
A man goes to an island to find his kidnapped sister. Waiting for him there, though, is a strange cult, a nature goddess, and a mystery that might just claim his very soul.
A mother and son take a plane ride to hopefully cure her of a disease, only for things to go off the rails forcing her to fight monster without... and within.
Hey, remember Crouching Tiger? That awesome wuxia epic of love, loss, and killer sword fights? Did you ever wonder why they never made a sequel? Well they did, and it sucked. Let's see why.
Enola returns with her own detective agency, and a case to find a missing matchstick girl.
Fear Street
This trilogy of films, based on the R.L. Stine series, follows the terror caused to a city by an evil witch, with her magically-inspidered murders happening again, and again, over the span of decades.
In this lackluster anime reboot, humanity has fled from Earth only to come back thousands of years later to try and defeat Godzilla and reclaim their home. Meanwhile, we all struggle to care.
A cop is on thee hunt for a serial killer, one that he thought he'd killed years earlier, but decade after decade she keeps showing up, almost as if my magic or some kind of freaky science.
Over the centuries, an elite group of immortal warriors has banded together to fight the battles that need fighting. But when a wealthy tech-magnate sets his sights on the band, it's hunt or be hunted for the fate of humanity.
Guillermo Del Toro brings us a wonderfully animated version of the Italian story of a wooden boy thrust into a world he shouldn't be forced to understand.
Three crew memebers head off on a mission to Mars, only to find a fourth hidden on the ship, leading to a moral dilemma about who should live or die so that the ship has enough resources to support the rest of the crew.
Earth is dying. To save humanity, a new kind of human is needed. Enter genetic engineering. Let's explore this movie and see if the astronauts it invents are really up to the task.
Art people are so weird, right? So what if you juxatapose a horror movie against the hoity-toity art world? I guess that's a setup that someone wanted to explore.
The biggest blockbuster China has ever produced, this film proposes a future where the only way to save teh Earth is to blast it out into space, like a giant spaceship. It's... not really a great idea.
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Daredevil
He's a blind lawyer with superpowers (enhanced senses and an amazing skill at fighting) taking on the darkest parts of the city... and himself. Let's all wallow in the darkness with Daredevil
Part of the Netflix corner of the MCU, Iron Fist debuted in 2017 and quickly became known as the worst series in the stable. What went wrong with the first season, and was that assessment really fair?
The second series from the MCU to come out on Netflix (after Daredevil, this show exchanged mystical powers and blindfighting for hard drinking detective noir. And, for the first season or so, it really worked.
Part of the MCU, Luke Cage has been working to clean up Harlem and fight thee threats, both homegrown and supernatural, that just keep coming to his part of NYC.
Spun-off from the second season of Netflix's Daredevil, this series follows Frank Castle as he wages a one-man war against the criminal element in New York.
A (fictional) true-crime series about outcast kids and crimes at their school. When a serial vandal strike, the show is there to ask the hard-hitting question: "Who did the dicks?"
This is the story of a television show too smart and funny for the time it came out in, and the creators and producers that wouldn't let it die even after it being off the air for years and years.
After The Simpsons and Futurama, fans of Matt Groening were dying to find out what genre he'd tackle next. And the answer was: Fantasy. We explore the series to see what works and what might need improvement.
After the cancellation of The Soup, Joel McHale took his clip-show format to Netflix to take another stab at a regular series. Sadly, it only lasted one season. Let's explore the show to see what happened and why it didn't catch on.
Two teenage twins, Blair and Sterling, get mixed up with a bounter hunter, Bowser, and end up finding a real knack for catching criminals on the run in this lighthearted action-comedy.
Years after the original films we join back up with the Karate Kid 'verse, but this time with Cobra Kai bad-boy Johnny in a lead role as he gets him life together and restarts the rival dojo.
Back in the 1980s there was women's wrestling league called the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, or GLOW for short. This semi-fictional series explores that league, and we review it to see if really packs a punch.
In 2013 Netflix launched a slate of original content, with his Kevin Spacey-starring political thriller in the pole position. A smash at launch, the show continued on through various evil plots and political machinations, but was hobbled in the end by the firing of Kevin Spacey (for being Kevin Spacey and doing all kinds of terrible things in his life). It continued on, so we take a look at the whole run to see how the show sends itself off.
He is Uhtred, Son of Uhtred, and his adventures have moved permanently to Netflix after first debuting on BBC America. We take a dive into this historical epic about an English lord, raised by Danes, and watch to see if he ever reclaims his honor and his destiny.
Set in the 1970s (and after), this series follows a team at the FBI has they begin the construction of a new unit that would interview mass murderers (soon to be dubbed "serial killers" to figure out what drives them... and maybe use that knowledge to catch other killers.
We follow young Beth Harmon, and up-and-commer in the 1960s Chess world, as she works to become the next World Champion of Chess (while fighting her own demons).
One of Netflix's first experiments with original content, OITNB focused on the lives and troubles of a group of women in a female prison. Although the series is still going strong, we only checked in on the first season and then never went back.
Set in Australia, this series explores the political turmoil just under the surface of the government. But is the show tense and thrilling, or simply trying to do too much?
It's a war between monsters and heroes as Dracula seeks to take over the lands while the only people standing in his way are an outcast noble, a magical storyteller, and Dracula's own son.
Promised to the Devil on her 16th birthday, young Sabrina is a teenaged witch that's about to see some very horrifying things. Let's see them with her.
A young woman is thrust into the middle of a war between her people, the fae, and the humans when a mad religious sect starts killing all of her kind. But with the help of knights, a magical sword, and her own pluck, maybe she can reshape the Arthurian world.
Created by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat (of Sherlock fame), this mini-series has a lot of spectacular ideas, solid production value, and a pretty great story. Like a lot of Gatiss/Moffat productions, though, it falls apart at the five-yard-line.
Years ago, a family moved into a spooky old house. Eight weeks later, most of the fled those very same walls. What happened at Hill House to drive a family away in terror? Let's find out.
Cancelled by Fox but picked up by Netflix, everyone's favorite devil is back for more delightful adventures. Who doesn't like a sexy little devil with a sense of humor and pipes of gold?
When He-Man and Skeletor die in battle against each other the truth of He-Man's real identity comes out, sending Teela, the newly knighted "Master of Arms" off on her own journey away from the kingdom. But the magic of the realm needs help and Teela is the best hero for the job of restoring magic and saving the world.
In the battle between good and evil, Heaven and Hell, one group stands between our world and total annihilation: the Catholic Church and their band of warrior nuns.
In the future people can live forever by switching skins, their souls and personalities installed on discs that move from body to body. But not everyone likes this immortality (that mostly benefits the rich, of course) and the very foundations of the future could quickly crumble.
An alien artifact lands on Earth sending future-humanity into a real tizzy. Suddenly, the United Space Force throws a crew together to head to the alien homeworld, but their journey, and events on Earth, conspire to make the mission far more complicated than first expected.
A British import, this surrealistic anthology series moved to Netflix for its third season, carrying on showing us a world very like our own, but twisted enough to reveal the flaws within.
We groove through the galaxy following bounty hunters Jet Black, Spike Speigel, and Faye Valentine, in this live-action adaptation of the classic anime.
With so many superhero shows on television, it takes a lot for a new series to stand out, especially when it's based on an original concept. Does the YA series The Innocents do enough to stand out? Let's see.
Taking place parallel to Jurassic World, this show follows the first six campers ever to enjoy the delights of the camp attached to the park... right up until all hell breaks loose in the camp proper.
Set in a trippy not-quite future but not quite retro version of our world, we follow two damaged people, Owen and Annie, as they seek help (or maybe just a quick fix) from a weird new drug study.
When the U.S. Government starters running weird tests in the middle of Indiana, only a group of kids can stop these evil actions. Set in the early 1980s, Strangers Things is powered by horror, '80s nostalgia, and the magic of being a kid. But can is translate that into a winner series?
When a whole group of children are all spontaneously born on the same day (to women who, before that day, weren't pregnant at all), one might say it's a little weird. Or you could be a rich industrialist and purchase seven of the kids to raise as your own. Why? So they can be superheroes and save the world, of course.
A revival of the makeover show, this series looks to help men (and women) reinvent themselves via the care and assistance of five gay men. Does the new series compare to the original? Let's find out.
The Problem with Tag Endings: We take a look at post-credit scenes and why their overuse takes away from the actual endings of films.
Streaming Service Round-up 2022: We take a look at the various streaming services going today to see what's worth it, and what can be skipped.
Late Night Round-up 2022: We take a look at the various comedy-news shows still going (and a couple of canceled ones) to see the late night landscape of 2022.
Netflix without Netflix: Netflix is getting rid of their disc-by-mail service, so let's take a look back to how Netflix came about and why DVDs are going away.
Finally Canceling My Netflix Subscription: With Netflix charging extra for multiple people using accounts, it require a reanalysis of if the streaming service was even worth it. The decision? Not so much.