If you are having a super busy summer like I am, then you seriously need some downtime. Yes of course, beach, parks, outdoors – all of these are very important, but if it’s disgusting and humid outside then the only cure is staying inside with the blasting AC. I also highly recommend hunkering down for […]
I spent the holidays as many people across this great nation did — binge-watching the epically addictive and totally depressing Netflix docu-series, Making A Murderer. Twice. The 10-part documentary takes a hard look at the case of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who was falsely convicted in 1985 for rape and attempted murder — thanks, in part, […]
Just like Netflix, only blacker,” Pam Grier says in the promotional trailer for Brown Sugar. Brown Sugar, a new online streaming service with a focus on black films, is the hub for ‘70s blaxploitation j oints and oldie classics. So maybe the tagline “the black Netflix” is quite ambitious. But it does offer something Netflix doesn’t. An Atlanta-based network for […]
Maria Bamford’s critically lauded Netflix show Lady Dynamite gets just about everything right—except for an unfortunate strain of biphobia. Created by Bamford, along with Pam Brady (South Park) and Mitchell Hurwitz (Arrested Development), the show is a fictionalized version of the alt comic’s life. Lady Dynamite is such a big-hearted, humanistic look at what it’s […]
Netflix has released a cryptic “House of Cards” season 3 trailer, featuring President and Mrs. Underwood as they come together from separate places in the early hours of the morning. Here’s a shot-by-shot synopsis of the 2:36 trailer, titled “The Full Quartet”: We see Frank taking putting out a cigarette in order to take a call […]
