Movies

Good News (2025) opens with a disclaimer that, while the story is based on real events, most of it is entirely fictional. And this largely...

It takes some real stones to pitch a movie like Good News (2025). Sure, retellings of vital historical events are ten-a-penny, so the idea of...

Look, nobody, least of all me, thought that Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead was going to have a happy ending. But I didn’t expect...

There’s no such thing as a victimless crime, which seems to be the underlying point of Netflix’s demented, bleak, hyper-violent Thai thriller Everybody Loves Me...

Vicious doesn’t have the kind of ending you can explain. Everyone who watches it will likely take something different from it and have a different...

A friend of mine’s dad once nailed his garden gate shut during Halloween to stop kids knocking on his door, which seemed a bit curmudgeonly...

The ending of The Woman in Cabin 10 has the curious distinction of being both too silly and ridiculous to be believed but also nowhere...

Given what The Woman in Cabin 10 is about and where it’s set, it’s hard not to feel like it misses some open goals. A...

There is no way to scientifically measure this, but I reckon Maintenance Required is the most derivative romantic comedy ever made. It’s You’ve Got Mail,...

We’ve got a lot to thank Shane Gillis for, not least the career of Shane Gillis, but of all his contributions to comedy, the mainstream...

You’re not supposed to quite know what to make of the ending of Steve, particularly its final frames depicting the titular headteacher climbing a ladder...

Steve is named after Cillian Murphy’s character, a spiralling reform college headteacher who’s in the midst of a substance abuse-accelerated mental breakdown. The movie isn’t...

And of course, it all comes down to a fight. This seems fitting for the ending of Mantis, which is about the battle for leadership...

2023’s Kill Boksoon became one of the most successful South Korean Netflix Original Films ever, somewhat unexpectedly. It was good, an action-packed assassin thriller with...

I’m a bit mixed on Cristela Alonzo. I don’t find her that funny, aside from the odd well-observed throwaway punchline that tends to punctuate longer...

You always run a bit of a risk laughing at something like Rebel Royals: An Unlikely Love Story. It touches on subjects that are very...

You can always tell a Spike Lee joint, even if those very words didn’t reliably pop up in the opening credits every time. There’s always...

There’s quite a lot bundled up in the ending of The Thursday Murder Club. Not one whodunit but technically two, there aren’t just a couple...