Netflix’s binge-friendly format of dropping full seasons at once means that episodes — and pilots in particular — tend to matter less. A premiere is still important, but it’s not as important as one ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Get Down was expected to be an expensive proposition from the get-go and Netflix knew it. The series from Academy Award-winning husband-wife team of Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin, ...

Breakthroughs and breakdowns loom as The Get Down and hip-hop look to build beyond their origins. Check out XXL’s review of the second season of the show below. Episode 1 - "Unfold Your Own Myth" Just ...

Eight months after it’s initial six episodes premiered on Netflix, Baz Luhrmann’s technicolor retelling of hip hop’s early days is back with another five installments. The Get Down was supposed to be ...

Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann knows how to build a world on screen. The director of Moulin Rouge!, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, The Great Gatsby, and other lavish, hyper-visual movies is ...

Your tolerance for Baz Luhrmann might be the decisive factor in whether you like the 90-minute pilot about the birth of hip-hop in New York City, but the Netflix series regains its footing once its ...

When Chris “Daze” Ellis was growing up on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, he saw a subway car parked in the Utica Avenue station that made him stop and stare. A buxom blonde had been ...

The hip-hop pioneer explains why the Netflix series starts in the disco era. — -- In 1977, the term "hip-hop" didn't exist. The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" wouldn't push past the Top 40 ...

For the last few years, the backstage story of The Get Down has been an odd backdrop to Netflix’s own story as a high-flying Wall Street darling, globalizing streaming service and startup film and TV ...

Director Baz Luhrmann is not known for his subtlety. In fact, the extremism with which he approaches the cinematography of his work seems made to get people talking. His latest project, Netflix's The ...

Rapper Kid Lennon performs at the inaugural Get Down festival, Uptown Get Down, in June 2023. He took to the Uptown Theatre before headliner Afroman. The festival is returning this year as the ...