Let’s see if I understand…Netflix recently canceled Jupiter’s Legacy – how they make such decisions is not always clear in that Netflix is a subscription-based service so they’re not bound to ratings in the same way as traditional television networks. That being said, how many people watch a show over a indeterminate period of time […]
I just learned from The Hollywood Reporter than Netflix has cancelled Jupiter’s Legacy. And while I didn’t like the series as much as I did Travelers (also on Netflix, also cancelled – in my view – prematurely though it at least ran for two years and 34 episodes). The metrics that Netflix use to determine […]
I can’t speak for anyone else but I really enjoyed Slasher, the anthology horror series created by Aaron Martin, that I first discovered on Netflix (it’s in the vein of American Horror Story, except less seedy). Like AHS it tended to use some of the same actors from one season to the next – it […]
Can we be honest? No matter what you think about Justice League – I refuse to call it ‘Zach Snyder’s Justice League‘ though that’s the simplest way to tell it apart from the movie that Joss Whedon directed after Snyder left the project – Zach Snyder is just not a very good director. He has […]
I really enjoyed the first volume of Netflix’s Love, Death + Robots, though that’s not to say that there weren’t problems. The biggest being that it consisted of 18(!) episodes, which inevitably means that you’re going to get a few clunkers like When the Yoghurt Took Over and Alternate Histories. Some were okay: The Witness […]
When Netflix’s Jupiter’s Legacy is firing on all cylinders there’s a joy of superhero action to behold. Though like a car that takes way too long to warm up, by the time it’s ready to go we’re approaching the end of our patience (and the run of the eight episode first season). Jupiter’s Legacy was […]
I grew up on cartoons like Bugs Bunny, Johnny Quest and Woody Woodpecker, etc, which typically consisted less of thematic/moral lessons than various degrees of chaos. Davey and Goliath – which is animation, just with clay – and The Peanuts were notorious for looking at things from a thematic perspective though the thing is they […]
Netflix is very hit and miss as far as horror movies go. For every The Perfection (2018) or Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) you get way too many The Open House (2018)-adjacent movies. Though His House (2020) is not only as good as anything they’ve produced thus far, it’s probably the best horror movie they’ve done yet. […]
I really enjoyed Netflix’s Tribes Of Europa and one of the things I found particularly interesting about it was it’s seemingly Eurocentric perspective, which is to say that the dissolution of Europe into mini-fiefdoms results in the more powerful factions trying to bring the continent together under their a single ruling clan/tribe. (Another interesting thing […]
We Can Be Heroes is the first of the movies that Robert Rodriguez occasionally writes and directs for children (Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Spy Kids) that I have watched in it’s entirety and it’s as banal as I always assumed that the movies he’s written and directed for children would be. And it’s worth mentioning that […]
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