Movie Explainers

Like any Hallmark movie or equivalent, it always ends with the two leads finding a way to be together. Despite the obstacles John and Sia...

With football (soccer if you’re wrong) being the world’s game, innumerable people grow up with fantasies of playing for their favorite team or their national...

There’s a certain light-hearted charm to Lobola Man. There’s also a pretty big issue with it, and I’m not sure a moderately happy ending necessarily...

The Champion (2024) isn’t a very good movie, but it’s a well-intentioned and likable one so I’d feel bad making fun of it. The from-the-ashes...

I would not have been surprised whatsoever if I had been told that Vanished Into the Night was a true story, despite the ludicrous twist....

Forgive me for being foolish. I expected the German feature Blame the Game to be another Game Night. However, I still enjoyed it, to an...

I was absolutely astounded by the ending of Vanished Into the Night. Maybe I was caught off guard and not completely wise to the incoming...

Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black is ridiculous and terrible nonsense, and the ending is one of the silliest aspects of it. Naturally, I’d like...

The ending of Space Cadet would have reached a ludicrous level if Rex had managed to fool NASA and become a fully qualified astronaut despite...

It’s easy to walk into the ending of Drawing Closer with a false sense of security. After all, the end is spelled out at the start...

I highly doubt Trigger Warning needed three lead writers overseeing this project. If it did, I’d love to know what they were doing. Whether I...

Knives Out has a lot to answer for. Imitators of Rian Johnson’s whodunnit haven’t exactly been few and far between over the last few years,...

It’s best not to take Kleks Academy too seriously, as it’s rooted in children’s imagination, after all. However, I am not convinced that director Maciej...

While the ending of Ultraman: Rising was the generic thrilling battle you’d expect from a movie with Kaiju, a genuine emotional factor was riding over...

I shouldn’t have to say this, but no — Under Paris is not based on a true story, and there are no sharks in the Seine...

For all its engaging fun, Hit Man has more meaning than the script suggests. It’s the ideal Netflix movie with obvious conversational points. I loved...

As expected, Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura is more about the winners and losers than anything else, but the ending also provides the lust for...

Depending on who you are, the ending of Under Paris, in which an army of mutated mako sharks essentially take over the world, is a...