Netflix has shared its first teaser of Christian Serratos (The Walking Dead)as Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla in its upcoming series,Selena: The Series – Part 1. The show will premiere on the platform in 2020. The clip features close-ups of Serratos’ manicured hands flipping through theSelena script as she practices …
Read More »'End of the F***ing World' Season Two: A Perfect Ending Undone
“It was a fitting end. A doomed love story. A perfect tragedy.” This is a character in Season Two of The End of the F***ing World describing the dark comedy’s first season. Across eight compact episodes, that season followed mismatched would-be lovers James (Alex Lawther) and Alyssa (Jessica Barden) — …
Read More »Best Movies and TV to Stream in Oct: A 'Breaking Bad' Movie, 'Modern Love'
This month, Netflix hauls out the big guns: a claustrophobic nightmare from a legendary horror scribe, a quasi-revival of an era-defining TV hit, a teen drama set after the apocalypse (or is it an apocalypse drama with teens?) and a double shot of Paul Rudd. Also on deck: an eerie …
Read More »'Stranger Things' Details Season 3 Soundtrack
A day after the premiere of its highly-anticipated third season, the Stranger Things 3 soundtrack has dropped via Legacy Recordings. The non-original soundtrack oozes in Eighties circa-1985 nostalgia with tracks like Madonna‘s “Material Girl,” REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight This Feeling” and “Workin’ for a Livin’” by Huey Lewis & the …
Read More »Best Movies and TV to Stream in Feb.: Superheroes, Soderbergh, Lorena Bobbit Doc
Netflix has a trio of new features from big name talents, as well as a new puzzle-box series that’s blowing critics’ minds and a comic-adapted fan-favorite-in-the-making. Amazon’s working the true-crime beat with a Lorena Bobbitt docuseries and the fake-crime beat with a new Agatha Christie adaptation. And let’s throw in …
Read More »'Fyre' Review: Doc on Disastrous Music Fest Is One Three-Alarm Autopsy
You probably remember the cheese sandwich. Maybe you had no idea who the young, bro-tastic hustler Billy McFarland was, or hadn’t heard of the Fyre Music Festival before — or god forbid you’d somehow miraculously missed the already deserved roasting that this misbegotten, mismanaged event had inspired on social media. …
Read More »With 'Motown Magic,' Netflix Brings Soul Music to a New Generation
Musical history has never been as accessible as it is in the streaming era. At the same time, it’s remarkably disposable: A recent study by the British Phonographic Industry revealed that music from the Sixties accounted for just 6.4% of all streams in the U.K. in 2017. Streamers prefer the …
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