M.N. Miller

There’s just no way around it. Amsterdam is for the birds. Even more shocking is that this comes from the esteemed, very mercurial, and yet...

Dead for a Dollar tells the story of two men at odds with each other, which is a classic Western storytelling trope. One good, the...

Rainbow is a Spanish film directed by Paco León. Inspired by L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, this is a modern retelling seen...

The Spanish Netflix film Rainbow is being labeled as a modern retelling of L. Frank Baum’s classic, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Viewed through a...

Bros has a remarkable comedy team behind it. Written by star Billy Eichner and director Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and produced by comedy maestro...

One would think that a series about the Habsburg empire would be a blood bath, especially with wars going on between France and Russia. Oh,...

The outstanding German Netflix series The Empress does what only the very best films and series do — take you to another time and place....

The Empress closes its season, and all the conflicts come to a head. We are talking about Sophia’s power moves against Elisabeth (played by Devrim...

If you remember, at the end of the second episode, our favourite conspirator Ava was snuck into a pair of shoes, which was unusual, even...

A woman gifting a child to her husband is the subject of The Empress episode “The Hunt.” Sophia is loyal and, as we saw in...

The wedding is on, and it’s a grand affair. Franz (played by Philip Froissant) waits for Elisabeth (played by Devrim Lingnau) at the end of the aisle as she takes...

Where some things change, they really all stay the same. Elisabeth (played by Devrim Lingnau) has arrived at her new digs and has no idea what she...

The Empress starts with a sullen-looking woman in her wedding dress and a delicate white veil covering her face. She is walking down the aisle...

Andrew Dominick’s film Blonde is a polarizing experience. Many were expecting a sexy romp. And if you were in the critics screening I was in,...

Anyone looking for a replacement for The Crown, with an addictive twist of cutthroat politics and chess manoeuvring, may have found their fix with The...

Bri (Jamila Gray) lives in the shadow of her dead father in On the Come Up, a legendary figure around the Garden Heights area. She...

On the Come Up focuses its story on Bri (Jamila Gray), an aspiring rapper who lives in the shadow of her dead father. He was...

On the Come Up combines rags-to-riches or nobody-to-somebody tales that are classic storytelling narratives. Except this film is an adaptation of Angie Thomas’s novel, The...

Lou is an action thriller revolves around an unassuming government agent hiding in plain sight. The titular character is a bit of stunt casting, with...

The classic unassuming action hero thriller Lou is directed by Anna Foerster and written by Maggie Cohn and Jack Stanley. A film that stars Emmy...