Tag: netflix
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Thank you, foreign-language films
I don’t speak Japanese, French, Spanish, Korean or Hindi. But, thanks to the low-tech intervention of subtitles, I’ve been able to watch and enjoy several excellent films in these languages over the past 18 months. Godzilla Minus One, which won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, is as engaging as it is aesthetically pleasing.…
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Top Boy, review
The following was my 2024 entry for the Anthony Burgess Prize… The conclusion to Ronan Bennet’s sprawling crime drama Top Boy is abrupt, unsatisfying, and raises many more questions than it answers – which is what makes it perfect. That Netflix wanted the show to “carry on forever”, according to its lead Ashley Walters, is…
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‘Prem-flix’ is the perfect tonic for piracy
Last month, a gang of five men who illegally streamed Premier League football matches to mass audiences were jailed at Chesterfield Crown Court. The ringleader was sentenced to 11 years in prison. The operation, which supplied modified VPN-altering satellite boxes, is thought to have made more than £7 million from at least 50,000 users. Piracy…
Rohan Banerjee 