Another graphic novel receives the series treatment in streaming giant Netflix’s new series Jupiter’s Legacy. Mark Millar and Frank Quietly created the epic superhero drama that follows six ordinary people who receive extraordinary powers.
Music video director Anthony Mandler makes an impressive feature directorial debut in Monster from Netflix. An adaptation of Walter Dean Meyers 1999 young adult novel tells the story of Steve Harmon (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.), a seventeen-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder.
The latest animated family film arrives in Netflix’s The Mitchells vs. The Machines from directors Michael Rianda and Jeff Rowe. The Mitchells are an ordinary family who find themselves in the middle of their biggest family challenge yet
Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer portray childhood friends turned superheroes in Netflix’s Thunder Force from director Ben Falcone. In 1983 cosmic rays strike Earth.
Comedians Eric Andre, Lil Rel Howery, and Tiffany Haddish join forces in the Netflix hidden camera comedy Bad Trip. Directed by Kitao Sakurai,
Hip Hop heads and documentary fanatics are in for a treat with Netflix’s Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell from director Emmet Malloy. Following the rapper’s landmark induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and ahead of what would have been his 50th birthday, fans get a fresh look at Biggie Smalls’ legacy.
Director J Blakeson makes a wonderful return to feature film directing in Netflix’s I Care a Lot. Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike) uses the poise of a shark-like self-assurance in her job as a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards.
Director Sam Levinson and his Euphoria star Zendaya collaborate with John David Washington in Netflix’s Malcolm & Marie. Before I began my review, I want to let viewers know that Malcolm & Marie only features two actors and the entire film is in black & white.
A week before audiences watch the Chiefs and Buccaneers face off in Super Bowl 55, Netflix gives football fans a documentary to hold them over with We Are: The Brooklyn Saints. Emmy-award winning filmmaker Rudy Valdez directs the four-part documentary series following a youth football program in the heart of inner-city East NY, Brooklyn.
The buddy cop genre receives a new addition in Netflix’s, Outside the Wire from director Mikael Håfström. The film written by Rob Yescombe and Rowan Athale takes place in 2036, where America serves as a peacekeeping force.
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