Read Emilia’s Take on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part Four here. It is with a heavy heart that I write this review of the final part of Netflix series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Along with a slew of other original shows, CAOS has been cut down in its prime. After the cancellation announcement […]Read More
Read James’ Take on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part Four here. For a show that was so strongly written in previous seasons, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part Four serves as a disappointing conclusion. Just when we think Sabrina Spellman’s (Kiernan Shipka) life is heading towards normality, our preconceptions are challenged, and not for […]Read More
This programme contains flash cars, big watches, and fake… At the end of November, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden called for more to be done to protect the reputation of the royal family after the release of the latest series of Netflix drama The Crown. The show has created some increasingly bad press for the royal […]Read More
Customers in the UK will see an increase on their monthly subscription month from February, the streaming giant has said. The Standard Plan, which is the most popular, will rise from £8.99 to £9.99 monthly. This package allows users to watch on two screens at once and also allows for HD viewing. The Premium Package […]Read More
In early December, Netflix released a teaser trailer for their latest 2021 series, Fate: the Winx Saga. Given the title, viewers were immediately drawn to the reboot of the beloved 2000’s cartoon The Winx Club that focused on five teenage fairies attending Alfea School to hone their skills and save the universe. The showrunner of the reboot, Brian […]Read More
TW: sexual assault, miscarriage, substance abuse (addiction/alcohol) Pieces of a Woman is an intensely personal story of a woman’s life that is upended by the death of her child following a traumatic home birth Harrowing and heart-breaking in tone, director Kornél Mundruczó explores the knotty subject of grief and its detrimental impact on mental health, […]Read More
Is there something about the cold weather and the dark nights that make us yearn for the petticoat-wearing, ball-dancing, etiquette-minding past? The darkening months are synonymous with Poldark and Downton Abbey but a new, sexier period drama has risen to take their place. Based on Julia Quinn’s bestselling novels, Bridgerton is Netflix’s first series made […]Read More
Musicals do not get to be mediocre. The characters must be charismatic; the story needs to have focus; and most of all, the music should be memorable. When one of these aspects fails, immediately the entire experience is cheapened. The Prom fails in all three respects. Directed by Ryan Murphy, The Prom introduces us to […]Read More
After countless films have been delayed thanks to COVID-19, the arrival of a new one feels like a momentous occasion—even for standard ‘Netflick’ fare. So, I went into Ava with no expectations other than ‘woo new film!’. I should have just stuck with an old one. Ava follows Jessica Chastain as the titular assassin who, […]Read More
The path of night and the path of light. The occult, voodoo, and pagans. Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka) has faced it all at the age of sixteen in the quaint, unsuspecting town of Greendale, but the greatest threat of all is yet to arrive as the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina commences it’s fourth and final […]Read More
Streaming giant Netflix has upped its spending budget to £750 million in 2020 for the UK, a fifty percent increase from last year. 2019 saw Netflix spend £500 million on British-made films and TV shows, around £100 million more than its estimated £400 million for the year. Despite being affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, knocking […]Read More
As one of our generation’s most heralded directors, any film David Fincher attaches his name to is always a hot prospect. Since the major success of 2014’s Gone Girl, Fincher has mostly focused on TV for Netflix, producing their hit shows Mindhunter and Love, Death & Robots. His latest collaboration with the streaming behemoth, though, […]Read More
Netflix’s holiday content is arguably a hit or miss one, often ending up too cheesy and predictable to enjoy even during a period as forgiving as Christmas. But every so often comes a hidden gem like Dash & Lily to restore my faith in the streaming platform. The eight-episode series begins with Dash (Austin Abrams), […]Read More
It’s easy to split the British public into two camps: cat lovers or dog lovers; marmite loathers or likers; republicans or royalists. Wait until the day of a royal wedding – in one camp there’ll be an interview with someone who hoarded all the Charles and Diana wedding memorabilia, in the other, there’ll be tuts […]Read More
Netflix has just released the trailer for its upcoming film, The Dig. This Second World War period drama is set to star Lily James, Carey Mulligan, and Ralph Fiennes. The Dig is a dramatized adaptation of a novel by John Preston that explores the most famous archaeological dig in modern British history: “the discovery of […]Read More
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