Tag: Netflix
The Crown offers fans glimpse of its new cast as royals
LONDON — FANS of The Crown, one of the most expensive television series ever produced, have been given a sneak peak of actress Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret in the third season of the drama that chronicles Britain’s royal family.
Netflix topples HBO in Emmy nods, but Game of Thrones still...
LOS ANGELES — HBO’s medieval fantasy series Game of Thrones led nominations for the Emmy Awards announced last week, but streaming service Netflix knocked HBO off its 17-year pedestal as the network with the most nods.
The Sense8 cluster gets together again
THE Sense8 cluster comes together on Netflix for one final mission in hopes that love conquers all.
Who’s the boss?
By Noel Vera
Video Review
Amo
Directed by Brillante Mendoza
Netflix
WHEN streaming giant Netflix announced that it would be showing pro-Duterte filmmaker Brillante Mendoza mini-series shot and set...
Netflix says these smart TVs are best for binge-watching
Netflix released a list of its recommended smart TVs that are ideal for watching Netflix content.
The internet TV streaming giant came up with its...
Netflix-loving tykes tune out Nick in worst year for kids TV
KIDS LIKE Caleb Moushey are killing cable TV in the US.
Not that Caleb knows from cable. After all, he’s seven years old. But Caleb...
Netflix selling $1.5 billion of junk bonds to finance more shows
Netflix Inc. is tapping junk-bond buyers again to help it fund its next wave of shows.
The world’s largest online television network is selling $1.5...
Netflix surges as users stay loyal despite higher prices
Netflix Inc. used to worry it would alienate customers by raising prices for its streaming service. Not any more.
The company posted its strongest subscriber...
Netflix pulls out of Cannes festival
LOS ANGELES — Netflix, Inc. said on Wednesday it was totally pulling out of the Cannes Film Festival next month after organizers banned the...
Lost in Space finds new life on Netflix
LOS ANGELES — More than 50 years after it appeared on US television, science-fiction family drama Lost in Space is getting new life as...
Netflix series shows ‘necessary’ Philippine drug war — director
THE DEADLY drug war waged by President Rodrigo R. Duterte is to be dramatized in the first Netflix series by award-winning director Brillante Mendoza,...
Affliction
By Noel Vera
Television
Annihilation
Netflix
METEOR flashes across the sky, strikes base of lighthouse; Special Forces husband presents himself to his wife after an absence of two...
Acclaimed film Birdshot now on Netflix
THE critically acclaimed film Birdshot will be shown on the video streaming platform Netflix, Globe announced in a release yesterday. The film, which stars...
Obama in negotiations to create Netflix series — report
SAN FRANCISCO — Former US president Barack Obama is in negotiations with Netflix about producing a series of shows for the online streaming giant,...
Netflix to give parents more control over content access
NETFLIX, INC. is rolling out features that will give parents more control over access to content by allowing them to block individual movies and...
Netflix, Amazon billions lure Hollywood hitmakers to jump ship
NETFLIX, INC.’s surprise $300-million deal to poach Ryan Murphy from 21st Century Fox, Inc. shows just how easy it’s getting for rich tech companies...
The shows we binged on in 2017, according to Netflix
THE YEAR is ending and Netflix is here to help you make sense of your binge-watching habits as the streaming service recently unloaded its...
Making The Crown
NETFLIX’s award-winning series The Crown launched its second season on Dec. 8, continuing the series’ exquisite narration of Britain’s history through the reign of...
Netflix OKs Stranger Things 3rd season
NEW YORK — Stranger Things fans, rejoice: more adventures in the Upside Down are on the way.
Netflix said Friday it had renewed its hit...
The Crown returns
By Mira Catherine B. Gloria
Online Editor
Television
The Crown
Netflix
“THE WORLD is changing and no one is prepared for what’s about to happen.” This was how award-winning...
Stranger Things 2 gets darker in aftermath of death and Demogorgon
LOS ANGELES – A year has passed since a supernatural demon terrorized the town of Hawkins, Indiana, but as Netflix’s hit 1980s science fiction...
Netflix premieres new Star Trek series, airs all previous episodes
TO CELEBRATE the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, the latest series in the Star Trek universe (photo), Netflix beams up all 695 episodes of...
La La Land’s Chazelle partners with Netflix for TV musical
LOS ANGELES – Damien Chazelle, the Oscar-winning director of hit movie La La Land, has another musical in the works, this time a multilingual...
Superheroes and cosplayers return for AsiaPop Comicon
CONSIDERED one of the biggest pop culture events in the country, AsiaPop Comicon Manila (APCC Manila) is returning on Aug. 25-27 at the SMX...
Marvel’s battle-scarred The Defenders find teamwork tough
NEW YORK – Riding the slipstream of the Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four, The Defenders is promising to bring a more tortured and cerebral...
Without Disney, Netflix needs to produce more movies of its own
WALT DISNEY Co.’s break with Netflix, Inc. increases pressure on the streaming service to produce more of its own programs and shore up its...
Stranger Things Season 2 trailer is a real ‘Thriller’
SAN DIEGO -- Nostalgic horror sensation Stranger Things unveiled a new trailer set to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” on Saturday as it built buzz for...
Black Mirror creator on how he (unknowingly) predicted the rise of...
Television
Black Mirror
Netflix
BLACK MIRROR is back and ready to offer a fresh and terrifying insight into where society and technology is headed.
The third season of...
The high life
By Noel Vera
Television
High-Rise
Directed by James Gunn
Netflix
BEN WHEATLEY’s screen version of J.G. Ballard’s 1975 novel High-Rise is, I suppose, as good an effort as any...
Netflix scores a bull’s eye with Stranger Things; HBO better do...
By Kevin McDonough
OUR RETURN to the 1980s continues with the eight-part drama Stranger Things, now streaming in its entirety on Netflix.
From its title card...
Punishing
By Noel Vera
Television
Daredevil Season 2
Netflix
(Warning: story and plot twists of the Netflix series discussed in detail.)
WAS DAREDEVIL SEASON 2 an improvement over the first?...
Jessica Jones star calls superhero part her dream role
LOS ANGELES -- The star of Netflix hit Jessica Jones said Tuesday she knew she had found her dream job even before she read...
Twisted sister
By Noel Vera
Television
The Spiral Staircase
Netflix
Robert Siodmak’s The Spiral Staircase, an oddly neglected noir, begins with an act of shared voyeurism: people gathered together at...