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Hugh Grant to feature in Charlie Brooker’s 2020 mockumentary

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Hugh Grant, seen most recently starring alongside Nicole Kidman in the HBO six-part miniseries The Undoing, will feature in an upcoming 2020 mockumentary penned by Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker for Netflix. The actor revealed as much in a recent interview with Vulture, saying, “I’m doing a thing tomorrow, actually,” when asked about future projects. […]

Black Mirror creator doesn’t know if he or viewers can “stomach” another season of the show right now

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A series about the darkest parts of life and always needing to find new ways to scare viewers, it seems like Black Mirror might be a bit too bleak for life currently. At least, that’s how creator Charlie Brooker feels as he opens up about delaying season six of his Netflix series. In an interview […]

Netflix reveals the 10 most popular films and TV series streamed in the UK in 2019

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Tis the season for Top Top lists to dominate social media streams and news stories, and getting in on the annual countdown craze are streaming giants Netflix, who have revealed the 10 most popular films to be streamed on UK accounts this year. As reported by Deadline, it’s important to remember that Netflix measures the […]

Black Mirror Season 5 Review – ‘Striking Vipers’

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Martin Carr reviews Black Mirror’s Striking Vipers… Charlie Brooker might be frenetic, prone to tangential leaps of inspiration and talking a mile a minute, but there is no way you could call the man boring. Video games, virtual reality and gender politics might seem like strange bedfellows, but somehow he draws it all together whilst […]

Black Mirror Season 5 Review – ‘Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too’

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Martin Carr reviews Black Mirror’s Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too… Apart from the syntactic call back to a sweet natured provincial sex comedy worked into that title, this episode focuses on grief and how we process it. Similar thematically to Smithereens, Brooker explores the coping mechanisms we all employ and what comes from that. He […]

Black Mirror gets three season 5 posters

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With a little over a week to go until season 5 of Black Mirror arrives on Netflix, three new posters have been revealed for this series’ episodes ‘Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too’ featuring Miley Cyrus, ‘Smithereens’, and ‘Striking Vipers’ featuring Anthony Mackie; check them out here… SEE ALSO: Black Mirror season 5 episode trailers and […]

Black Mirror season 5 episode trailers and promotional images revealed

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Ahead of its June 5th premiere, Netflix has unveiled trailers and promotional images for all three episodes in the fifth season of the acclaimed anthology series Black Mirror: ‘Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too’ starring Miley Cyrus, Angourie Rice, and Madison Davenport; ‘Smithereens’ starring Andrew Scott, Damson Idris and Topher Grace; and ‘Striking Vipers’ starring Anthony […]

Black Mirror season 5 trailer, premiere date and cast revealed

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Netflix has released the first trailer for the fifth season of Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones’ acclaimed anthology series Black Mirror which is set to arrive on the streaming service on June 5th. This series features a star-studded cast that includes Anthony Mackie, Miley Cyrus, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Topher Grace, Damson Idris, Andrew Scott, Nicole […]