The degradation of Marilyn Monroe
In death as in life, the actress has been used, abused and commodified. Netflix’s film Blonde is just the latest…
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The deep realism of Better Call Saul
This Breaking Bad spin-off was a high point in television drama: never has a series better conveyed the complexities of…
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Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 overlooks the festival’s most disturbing problem – sexual assault
This Netflix documentary treats violence against women as an afterthought and mythologises a toxic environment.
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Diversity is part of the very soul of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman
The author wanted to “change hearts and minds” with his bestselling graphic novel. The Netflix adaption stays true to that…
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In defence of Netflix’s Persuasion
No, I haven’t read Jane Austen’s novel. Must that disqualify me from enjoying this joyful and self-aware parody?
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Netflix’s The Gray Man is a dire example of movie-making by algorithm
The service’s most expensive film yet is blatantly tailored to suit streaming viewers’ boredom, impatience and desire for familiar faces.
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The last of the folk-hero hijackers
A crime mystery that fascinated 1970s America gets a new set of wings in the Netflix series DB Cooper: Where…
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How did Netflix’s Persuasion get the novel so wrong?
This adaptation slaps a sassy millennial tone on Austen’s most mature work, in an embarrassing attempt to force the brashest…
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