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NEW YORK (AP) — When we first meet the hero of Guy Ritchie's new Netflix series, he's not exactly what you'd expect from a Guy Ritchie hero. He's a peacekeeper for the United Nations, under orders to de-escalate tensions. Can that really last, this being a Guy Ritchie series? Doubtful. HT Image “The Gentlemen,” a captivating mix of menacing thriller, satire, soap opera, gangster caper and absurdist humor, will eventually have blood splashing on walls, but it delights in the promise of violence more than the…

Netflix is down for thousands of users in the United States, according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The streaming giant has confirmed that it is facing "unexpected technical issues" affecting some members. As of 7:17 PM ET (5:47 AM Indian time), Downdetector shows about 7,000 reports of outages. This is…

Near the height of the streaming boom in the fall of 2018, a half-dozen studios and video platforms lined up to woo a little-known filmmaker named Carl Erik Rinsch. He had directed only one movie, "47 Ronin." It was a commercial and critical dud, and Rinsch's tussles with its producers had raised eyebrows, even in an industry where such conflicts are the norm.But memories in Hollywood are short, and the demand for new content was intense. In just a decade, the number of scripted TV shows had soared from 200 to more than…

How did the idea for Now You See Us take shape? The title is also reminiscent of a Netflix series centred on racial discrimination and the flawed justice system (When They See Us), was that an inspiration? Author Balli Kaur Jaswal (Courtesy the publisher) The similarity of the titles is a coincidence. I was inspired to write Now You See Us after years of observing certain narratives (especially in the media) about domestic workers in Singapore, and considering how those narratives were incomplete and lacking in…

You get the credit as well as the blame for being somewhere between mainstream and arthouse and, sometimes, for being too experimental with your work. What’s your stance on that?I personally thrive on the tension between these two worlds. If I worked either in purely mainstream film or remained limited only to arthouse cinema, I think I would be bored. It’s the friction that I love. I try to capture the multiplicity of experiences, complex characters and dense stories. For that, mainstream filmmaking can sometimes be…

Netflix is a streaming service that's taken the world by storm, offering thousands of movies and TV shows at the click of a button. With its wide variety of content and user-friendly interface, it's no wonder Netflix has become a household name. Netflix is reducing its subscription prices in more than 30 countries to attract customers in the face of growing competition. The affected countries include Yemen, Jordan, Libya, Iran, Kenya, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria. Latin American countries such as…

If you are someone who grew up in India and watched Hindi films, even infrequently, you would have come across at least one movie under the YRF banner. The production house was founded in 1970 and was brought to limelight by famous director Yash Raj Chopra. Throughout those times, he has directed films that have shaped the careers of many modern superstars including Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan and many others. And today, his son Aditya Chopra continues the tradition. But what has been the journey of…

Donning khaki and adjusting the camera, 32-year-old French Youtuber Gildas Leprince becomes Mister Geopolitix, bringing foreign affairs to a younger crowd who might otherwise not be interested.With almost 200,000 YouTube subscribers, mainly young viewers under the age of 35, Leprince dissects the thorniest diplomatic subjects of the day using analysis in a studio, interviewing experts and also reporting from the field. Whether travelling with the French Army in Estonia, or shadowing a humanitarian, Mister Geopolitix is…

Image Source : PIXABAY Netflix Netflix is reportedly coming up with a new ad-supported tier which is unlikely to make the platform's offline viewing feature available to members on this low-end tier of the service. According to TechCrunch, this discovery surfaced when the developer-Steve Moser found code within the Netflix iPhone app that suggested the streamer will block users from downloading titles to their devices for offline viewing. Text…

Image Source : PIXABAY Netflix games Netflix Games: Netflix, a video streaming platform forayed into the gaming business which took a pace to a poor start as a new report says that less than 1% of its subscribers are playing its games. App analytics company Apptopia estimates an average of 1.7 million people are engaging with the games daily, which is less than 1 per cent of Netflix's 221 million subscribers, reports CNBC. The platform is accelerating its push into video games with plans to double its catalogue of…