This Year’s Agatha Christie Whodunit Struggles To Compel
What makes a good whodunit? Is it a brilliant story with enough twists to light up a '60s ballroom? Is it the cast full of familiar faces playing even more familiar tropes? Is it the setting, a stately, secluded manor…
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I Can Totally See Why This Lovely, Textured Drama Won The Berlinale’s Top Prize This Year
Dreams (Sex Love) is somewhat tricky to pin down with description alone. It's part of a thematic trilogy by Norwegian filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, along with Sex and Love, each of which premiered at European festivals over the past year…
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Brainrot Core, A Cultural Tipping Point & Maybe The End Of Coherent Cinema
A belated review of “A Minecraft Movie,” currently the second highest-grossing movie of the year worldwide, has earned $550.6 million globally, including $280.96 million domestically, making it the year’s highest-grossing film domestically. READ MORE: ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Shocks By Smashing…
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Horror’s Most Exciting Directing Duo Deliver a First-Class Crime Screamer for Shudder
We're in a heavily nostalgic era of entertainment, and for the people who lived through the times the media reminisces on, it can be a fun reminder of the way things were. For younger generations, it's a rose-tinted way of…
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Nathan Fielder Tackles Airplane Safety in One of the Wildest Seasons of TV You’ll Ever See
Nathan Fielder has seemingly never met a challenge he couldn’t overcome. With Nathan for You, Fielder tried to help struggling small businesses in increasingly wild and hilarious ways. In 2023’s The Curse, Fielder tried his hand at scripted comedy, starring…
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Netflix’s New Thriller Miniseries Weaves an Enthralling Web
Created by Swedish crime author Camilla Läckberg, Netflix's new miniseries The Glass Dome (Glaskupan in Swedish) is a taut, often quite gripping psychological thriller. It works as both a twisty kidnapping crime saga with a lot of moving parts and…
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I Think They Should Be Terrified of You
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2 premiere. The first season of The Last of Us was largely about love, both the good and bad of this emotion, and what extremes it can…
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We Finally Learn Why Dr. Derian Acts Like That
Editor's Note: The below recap contains spoilers for Watson Episode 9. After last week’s misstep in introducing iconic Sherlock Holmes characters to the detriment of the forward momentum the series was starting to experience, Watson returns to form with Episode…
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Harvey Specter Brings Bad News
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Suits LA Episode 8.It's another day at the office in the present timeline of Suits LA, but it's also the first day of the Pellegrini (Anthony Azizi) trial for New York Ted…
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Colter Shaw Runs Into a Real-Life Horror Movie
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Tracker Season 2 Episode 16. Two trackers diverged in a wintry wood, and thankfully, the Tracker villain of the week could not travel both. Strength in numbers served Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley)…
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This Solid Reimagining of a Classic Doubles as an Innovative Action Thriller
The 1975 action thriller The Bullet Train, following a terrorist plot to blow up the bullet train Hikari 109 if it goes under 80 km/h unless a ransom is paid, has had a strong, lingering legacy in the United States.…
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The Perfect Season 2 Primer
The pacing of Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon is relentless. The action is non-stop, and director Tomomi Kamiya's (Carole & Tuesday) film plays like a horror film in the sense that everything feels propulsive and constantly ratcheting up. The monsters…
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