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Here is our archive of movie coverage, which includes reviews, explainers, features, lists, and more from the latest films.

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‘Fall for Me’ Ending Explained – A “Romantic” Happily Ever After For Everyone Except the Audience

August 21 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Fall for Me is a tale of two sisters, both idiots, who find themselves ensnared in a sexy scheme to defraud them of an expansive...

‘Fall for Me’ Review – Netflix’s Tame Erotic Thriller Is Like Watching Paint Dry

August 21 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

The experience of watching Fall for Me is a lot like watching paint dry, with the semi-important caveat of someone getting their nipples out every...

‘Devo’ Review – A Breezy Celebration Of Counter-Cultural Weirdness

August 19 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

I wasn’t remotely familiar with the new wave band Devo before sitting down to watch Chris Smith’s Netflix documentary about the Akron, Ohio collective’s ‘80s...

‘Fixed’ Review – Netflix’s R-Rated Dog Comedy Has No New Tricks

August 13 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Dogs have always been a movie-making cheat code, the easiest shortcut to making an audience laugh or cry – or both! – as necessary. The...

‘Jim Jefferies: Two Limb Policy’ Review – Jefferies Remains Impossible to Pin Down

August 12 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Jim Jefferies occupies a great place in comedy these days. Having made his name as a — all together now — “controversial” comic back when...

Them Again: Why Movie Typecasting Is A Good Thing (Sometimes)

August 9 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

I’ve been thinking about Michael Jai White. Don’t worry, it’s nothing weird – I just watched Hostile Takeover, the first of his movies to really...

‘Hostile Takeover’ (2025) Review – Is Michael Jai White Finally Showing His Age?

August 9 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

You hire Michael Jai White to throw a mean side kick, look cool, and probably take his shirt off at some point, and on this...

‘Stolen: Heist of the Century’ Review – A Slick Behind-the-Scenes Of A Notorious Heist

August 8 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

In crime circles, one has to imagine that a diamond heist, from within Antwerp’s famous Diamond District no less, constitutes something of a final boss....

‘The Pickup’ Review – This Is One Of the Worst Things Eddie Murphy Has Done, and He Knows It

August 6 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Almost everything you need to know about The Pickup is that it has Eddie Murphy, one of comedy’s all-time icons, play the straight man to...

‘My Oxford Year’ Ending Explained – What Happened to Jamie?

August 1 2025, by Daniel Hart

The romance between Anna and Jamie at the end of My Oxford Year is bittersweet, but it does provide meaning, especially behind the foundations of...

I Found ‘My Oxford Year’ Underwhelming Despite Sofia Carson’s Familiar Role

August 1 2025, by Daniel Hart

Sofia Carson is becoming a household name on Netflix with the likes of Feel the Beat, Purple Hearts, Carry-On, and The Life List – the...

The Ending Of ‘War of the Worlds’ Is An Advert For Amazon Prime Air

July 30 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

War of the Worlds (2025) is impressively terrible in a lot of different ways, but its ending is particularly egregious. What is otherwise an ill-advised...

Prime Video’s ‘War of the Worlds’ Is Hilarious In All The Wrong Ways

July 30 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

It doesn’t generally speak highly of a movie when it’s quietly dumped on a streaming platform after only being announced — equally quietly, with zero...

In ‘Wet Heat’, Dusty Slay Is A Little Too Laid Back For His Own Good

July 29 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Let me be clear — I like Dusty Slay. He’s a funny observational comic with relatable blue-collar appeal and a hint of freewheeling, improvisational weirdness....

‘Osiris’ Gets The Practical Stuff Right, But It Isn’t Quite Enough

July 26 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

I’m a simple man who enjoys simple pleasures, and as such, a movie like Osiris should be right up my street. William Kaufman’s indie sci-fi...

‘A Normal Woman’ Has A Predictable Ending With A Touch Of Ambiguity

July 24 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

In many ways, A Normal Woman has exactly the ending you’d expect it to have, albeit spiced up with a touch of ambiguity. And this,...

‘A Normal Woman’ Is Overly Familiar, But An Effective Psychological Thriller

July 24 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

If it’s a random Thursday — or, indeed, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or any other day of the week — it’s probably time for a new...

‘Trainwreck: P.I. Moms’ Tells A Story So Wild It Could Only Be True

July 21 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Trainwreck: P.I. Moms tells the kind of wacky true story that, if it were the plot of a movie or TV show, you’d write it off...