Movie Explainers

Sometimes, in film, the messages can get blurry, and that’s what happens in Faceless After Dark. Surfaced as a story about the toxicity of fandom,...

The biggest selling point of the Indonesian horror movie Monster is that it has no dialogue. Netflix warns viewers before starting the film, which I...

Mother of the Bride could have at least tried to make an effort. I know Netflix needed a branded movie title for America’s Mother’s Day, but...

A movie about two teenagers trying to secure prom dates is hardly the most original idea of recent years, but I was hoping that Kevin...

The ending of The Idea of You is somewhat predictable as Hayes Campbell spells it out before it arrives. “I’ll see you in five years,”...

Honeymoonish has a typical rom-com trajectory, with the Netflix film giving us Kuwait’s version of the enemies-to-lovers trope. The plot is kick-started by two newlyweds and...

The ending of City Hunter (2024) sees Ryo and Kaori avenge Makimura’s murder while blowing open the Angel Dust conspiracy. It’s a reluctant partnership, with the...

Stolen is inspired by the real-life struggles of the Sámi people. It’s a fictional narrative rather than a true story, but the touching tale of...

It takes the whole film to get to some legitimate drama, but the ending of Stolen (2024) features a rather dangerous confrontation between Elsa and Robert, who...

Despite its quirky premise, you could predict the ending of Love, Divided five minutes in. Full of tropes and familiar plot beats, it’d be easy to...

It’s an absolute shame that the ending of The Greatest Hits is wrong. In fact, I’d argue it is morally wrong, and while Zack Snyder...

The ending of A Journey is unexpectedly devastating and speaks about the true frailty of human life. It always seemed clear that the Netflix film would...

Amar Singh Chamkila focuses on the true story of a young factory worker who became a bit of a phenomenon at the height of his...

The story of Amar Singh Chamkila allows for multiple endings. Conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of Chamkila and his wife Amarjot Kaur have kept his memory alive...

What Jennifer Did tells the terrible story of Jennifer Pan, who was accused of hiring killers to murder her parents so she could claim insurance...

Jennifer Pan plotted to kill both of her parents and while she succeeded in having her mother executed, her father survived. Huei Hann was not...

Jennifer Pan planned to have both of her parents murdered, but she only got half the job done. Her father, Huei Hann Pan, survived the...

What Jennifer Did covers a chilling crime that left the mother of Jennifer Pan dead and her father alive but in a coma. Jennifer was...