Netflix’s “Painkiller” tells the story of how one family built a business that helped launch the opioid crisis, and how they evaded real consequences for a long time even amid ongoing legal struggles. The limited series, which premieres on Aug. 10, is based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s 2017 New Yorker …
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EXCLUSIVE: In the opening scene of Netflix survival show Zombieverse, a dating couple in a bar in Seoul’s trendy Hongdae district lean in for a kiss. But tell-tale bloodshot eyes and popping veins on the girl’s face signal something might just be amiss. Instead of a smooch, the young guy …
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Carmen, Juni, and the rest of the Cortez family are back for another butt-kicking spy adventure. In April, Netflix announced that Robert Rodriguez, the original director of the 2000s action films, signed on to write and direct an upcoming “Spy Kids” reboot movie. Skydance Media optioned the film rights to …
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The Witcher season 3 similarly feels divided because of its split. The first five episodes of season 3 are some of the strongest of the series thus far, and episode 5 brings everything together beautifully at the Conclave of Mages. We find out that the Rogue Mage is really Vilgefortz …
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Image Source: Emily Sandifer Gia Kim was used to “lights, camera, action” long before her big break as an actor in Netflix’s “XO, Kitty.” “I always loved . . . using movies or just pictures in general . . . and telling stories that need to be told,” Kim tells …
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Debates about the colour of Cleopatra’s skin have been reactivated, and this time it’s Egypt attempting to take Netflix to task. The country has accused the streaming giant of misrepresenting history by casting a mixed-race woman to play the titular character in their upcoming show Queen Cleopatra. Netflix released a …
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EXCLUSIVE: The EP behind Prince Harry’s bombshell ITV interview has stressed its “truly independent” nature in contrast to Netflix’s Harry & Meghan docuseries. ITN Productions (ITNP) MD Ian Rumsey said Harry & Meghan had been “slightly overshadowed” by the debates thrown up around the royal couple’s involvement with the project. …
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Image Source: Getty / Arturo Holmes It was a gray, freezing April afternoon in New York City, and I managed to reach the subway platform just as the M train sped away, leaving me with a 14-minute wait. It was exactly the kind of experience that might generate a flash …
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The sharp increase in Asian representation in movies and TV shows has been the stuff of celebration in recent years, and for good reason. But while “Crazy Rich Asians” may be a caricature of extreme wealth, and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is utterly weird (in all the right ways), …
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Steven Yeun and Ali Wong’s new Netflix show “Beef” is an emotional experience from start to finish. The show follows the story of a frustrated contractor named Danny (Yeun) and a rich, overworked mom named Amy (Wong) who happen to get into a road rage entanglement with each other. Neither …
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EXCLUSIVE: Karan Anshuman and Suparn Varma, two of the primary writers, administrators and showrunners to maneuver into India’s net sequence area, have co-directed Rana Naidu, Netflix’s Indian remake of Ray Donovan, produced by Sunder Aaron’s Locomotive Global. The Hindi-language present begins streaming worldwide from this Friday (March 10). Anshuman is the …
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John Meehan pinned his stepdaughter, Terra Newell, to the bottom in her sister’s driveway, however he dropped his knife, which she grabbed after which used to stab him 13 instances. “I heard him gasp and fall on me when I started to make contact,” Newell instructed Fox Information Digital in …
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