10 Amazing Web Series of 2020
Photo: Web Series In 2020, content was king. Trapped inside our homes looking for distraction, we turned to our devices and our streaming platforms to take our minds away from the politics and the plague. With the end of the pandemic still not yet in sight, and having...
Omar Sy’s Gentleman Thief Will Steal Your Heart in Netflix’s ‘Lupin’
Photo: ‘Lupin’/Netflix In Netflix’s new original series ‘Lupin’, Omar Sy stars as Assane Diop, a Senegalese immigrant in Paris who we first meet as a janitor in the Louvre. As he cleans the darkened museum halls, he stops to admire the Queen’s Necklace, which once...
Must-Watch: The Remarkable Story of ‘Rose Island’
Photo: ‘Rose Island’/Netflix We open on an upbeat song, titles informing us that we are in 1968. A government official enters an almost dystopian-looking building to find a coughing, shivering, and desperate man. Upon asking what he wants, the man explains...
‘Shadow in the Cloud’: Like Two Movies Crammed into One
Photo: ‘Shadow in the Cloud’/Vertical Entertainment ‘Shadow in the Cloud’, released on January 1, ushered in the New Year with an eye-catching genre-bender of a premise that had some scratching their heads–women, World War II, B-17 bombers, espionage, and...
