Kanye West is getting the big-screen treatment. In a move that bucks Netflix convention, Act 1 of the highly anticipated three-part West documentary jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy will get a nationwide release in theaters from Iconic Events, the company behind David Byrne’s American Utopia. The doc, directed by Coodie & …
Read More »Dave Chappelle Announces Stand-Up Comedy Special 'The Closer'
Dave Chappelle returns with the sixth and final chapter for his Netflix stand-up specials, The Closer. It arrives on October 5th. The special follows The Age of Spin, Deep in the Heart of Texas, Equanimity, The Bird Revelation, and Sticks & Stones — for which he earned three Grammys in the …
Read More »Zendaya, John David Washington Watch Their Relationship Unfold in 'Malcolm and Marie' Trailer
Zendaya and John David Washington star in the romantic drama Malcolm & Marie, out February 5th on Netflix. Written and directed by Sam Levinson and shot in black-and-white, the film’s trailer features Washington as Malcolm, a filmmaker, and Zendaya as his girlfriend, Marie. Taking place over the course of one …
Read More »Sabrina Spellman and Her Coven Return for 'Chilling Adventures' Part Four
Sabrina Spellman will bring witchy justice to Greendale one last time in Part Four of TheChilling Adventures of Sabrina, out December 31st on Netflix. When we last saw the teenage witch (played by Kiernan Shipka), she had split herself into two beings so that she could simultaneously rule hell and …
Read More »Lily Collins Navigates a New French Life in 'Emily in Paris' Trailer
Lily Collins stars as an ambitious marketing executive in the new Netflix series Emily in Paris, which released its first trailer on Wednesday. The 10-episode romantic comedy premieres October 2nd on the streaming platform. The trailer follows twenty-something Emily as she leaves Chicago to take on her dream job at a …
Read More »Radha Blank Is a Failed Playwright Turned Rapper in 'The Forty-Year-Old Version' Trailer
Radha Blank is a failed playwright who turns to rapping in The Forty-Year-Old Version, out October 9th on Netflix. Shot in black-and-white 35mm, the trailer opens with Radha, formerly one of Spotlight Magazine‘s “30 under 30 Playwrights to Watch,” teaching a playwrighting class in New York City. “Remember, if you …
Read More »Millie Bobby Brown Is Sherlock Holmes' Teen Sister in 'Enola Holmes' Trailer
Millie Bobby Brown stars as Sherlock Holmes’ “Wild Child” sister in Enola Holmes, out September 23rd on Netflix. Directed by Fleabag‘s Harry Bradbeer, the trailer features Hole’s “Celebrity Skin” as Brown’s character Enola explains that her last name is “alone” spelled backwards. After her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) mysteriously disappears, …
Read More »Big Cats, Cults and Murder: Inside the Making of Netflix's 'Tiger King'
At the beginning of the new Netflix documentary Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, a strip club proprietor tells the camera, “The big cat people are backstabbing pieces of shit.” The statement sounds both like nonsense and hyperbole. By the end of the seven-part series, it turns out to have …
Read More »How Natasha Lyonne Battled Her Demons — and Won
“I feel like I haven’t used the bathroom at Veselka since the Nineties, but I’m going to go for it,” Natasha Lyonne announces from within an aura of red curls and cigarette smoke when she arrives at the Ukrainian eatery in New York’s East Village one night in December. She …
Read More »Joe Goldberg Finds a New Obsession in 'You' Season 2 Trailer
There’s a new “creep” in town in the trailer forYou Season 2, premiering December 26th on Netflix. Season 1 left off with protagonist and stalker Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) having a run-in with his long-lost ex-girlfriend Candace (Ambyr Childers), who’s hell-bent on teaching him a lesson. Now on the run …
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