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‘Elize: Shadows of a Woman’ Review – A Familiar True-Crime Story Retold With Mixed Results
‘Sugar’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap – In Too Deep With Nowhere to Go
How Ian and Angela Diaz Masterminded A Miscarriage Of Justice In ‘A Toxic Love Story’
Movie Reviews
‘Elize: Shadows of a Woman’ Review – A Familiar True-Crime Story Retold With Mixed Results
Netflix’s ‘A Toxic Love Story’ Brings Twisted Truths and Forced Narratives
‘Over Your Dead Body’ Review – A Funny, Messy Splatter Flick That Loses Its Way
‘Passenger’ Review – A Scare-Free Road Trip to Nowhere Of Note
TV Show Reviews
‘Little House on the Prairie’ Review – Alice Halsey Shines in a Beautifully Crafted Reboot
‘I’m Not Afraid’ Season 1 Review – A Harrowing Coming-Of-Age Tale
‘Worst Neighbor Ever’ Is Heartbreaking but Worth the Watch
‘Summer of 36’ Season 1 Review – A Messy Mystery That Fails to Capitalise On Its Premise
Latest TV Recaps
‘Sugar’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap – In Too Deep With Nowhere to Go
4 Summary Sugar knits Season 2’s themes and plot together especially effectively in “Cautionary Tale”, with Sugar forced to weigh up which of his personal boundaries...
‘Silo’ Season 3, Episode 4 Recap – Deeper and Deeper We Go
3.5 Summary Silo Season 3 pumps the brakes just a touch in “Whatever You Do, Don’t Go Home”, edging several subplots along without committing to any...
‘Cape Fear’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap – Should We Be Taking This Seriously Now?
4 Summary In its penultimate episode, Cape Fear tones a lot of its melodrama right down, dialling the insanity back a few notches to deliver some key...
‘Lucky’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – Not the Kids Birthday Party!
3.5 Summary Anya Taylor-Joy remains commanding in Lucky, but the show feels like it’s going through a motions a little in “Read the Room”, although a...
TV Explainers
Confused By Prime Video’s ‘Ghost in the Shell’? Don’t Worry, We Have You Covered
‘Game Of Thrones’ Already Ruined What ‘House of the Dragon’ Is Doing With Sunfyre
‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’ Season 1 Ending Explained – Paula’s Plight Is Far From Over
Memory Trouble: ‘Silo’ Season 3’s Flashbacks Are Telling Us the Real Story
Movie Explainers
How Ian and Angela Diaz Masterminded A Miscarriage Of Justice In ‘A Toxic Love Story’
Explaining ‘The Odyssey’: How Christopher Nolan Rewrote Greek Myth and Homer’s Text
‘Desire’ Ending Explained – All the Dumb Stuff That Happens in This Dumb Movie
‘Nothing to Lose’ Ending Explained – Why Jada’s Success Undermines the Message A Bit
Latest Stories
Our Predictions For What Might Happen To Every ‘Cape Fear’ Character In the Finale
With Cape Fear having turned surprisingly serious in its penultimate episode, all eyes now turn to the finale, in which basically every major character is in some...
‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Feels A Bit Desperate, And I’m Not Sure Nostalgia Can Fix the MCU
When I watched the official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, I felt something. A familiar pang of excitement, maybe, probably brought on by the main theme....
Christopher Nolan and ‘The Odyssey’ Have Made Lame Culture Warriors Look Like Morons
At the time of writing, after its gargantuan opening weekend, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has walked away with a gigantic box office haul. The epic...
The Success Of ‘Desire’ Is Why Netflix Won’t Let the Erotic Thriller Die — Even Though It Should
Rather improbably, Netflix’s Mexican erotic thriller Desire (Deseo) is the number one streaming movie in the world. This is despite the fact that, like basically...