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‘Mars One’ Review – A Subtle and Compelling Slice-of-Life Drama

January 6 2023, by Lori Meek

Brazil’s official Academy Awards selection, Mars One (original title: Marte Um), dropped on Netflix. The film’s been making its way around the festival circuit after premiering at Sundance...

The True Story Behind ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Explained

January 6 2023, by Miguel Fernández

Scott Cooper’s latest film, which reunites him with his Hostiles star Christian Bale, is The Pale Blue Eye. The film is a murder mystery focused...

‘Mumbai Mafia: Police vs the Underworld’ Review – Exposing Mumbai’s Handling of Organized Crime

January 6 2023, by Romey Norton

Mumbai Mafia: Police vs The Underworld comes from the team behind Crime Stories: India Detectives and follows the battle between Mumbai Police’s “encounter specialists” and organized...

‘Decision to Leave’ Review – One of 2022’s Very Best Films

January 6 2023, by M.N. Miller

Park Chan-wook’s film is a murder mystery romantic thriller about an ominous romance; it is an atmospheric masterpiece overflowing with obsession, jealousy, and loss of...

‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Ending Explained – Who Is Behind the Cadet Murders?

January 6 2023, by M.N. Miller

The Pale Blue Eye follows Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), a detective of some renown from New York City. It was a cold October day in...

Benoit Blanc’s Accent Explained

January 5 2023, by Kieran Burt

In Rian Johnson’s hit whodunnit films Knives Out and its sequel Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, there is no character more mysterious than Daniel...

Dylar Medication In ‘White Noise’ Explained

January 5 2023, by Miguel Fernández

Noah Baumbach’s movie, White Noise, is now available to stream on Netflix. Starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, it is an absurdist comedy that follows...

‘How I Became a Gangster’ Ending Explained – Why Didn’t Walden Want to Be Saved?

January 4 2023, by Lori Meek

After several years of being virtually untouchable, our unnamed Gangster finds himself in prison for the second time in his life. Oddly, none of his...

‘How I Became a Gangster’ Review – Delightfully Violent Yet as Formulaic as It Gets

January 4 2023, by Lori Meek

The 2019 Polish crime-drama How I Became a Gangster (original title: Jak zostalem gangsterem. Historia prawdziwa) landed on Netflix, and it chronicles the adventures of an unnamed narrator as...

‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Review – An Uneven and Overacted Gothic Murder Mystery

January 2 2023, by M.N. Miller

You have to wonder what drew Scott Cooper, the director behind gritty crime films (Out of the Furnace, Black Mass, Crazy Heart), to Louis Bayard’s...

‘White Noise’ Ending Explained – What Exactly Was The Final Dance?

December 30 2022, by Jacob Throneberry

White Noise is a marvel by writer/director Noah Baumbach. Led by a stellar Adam Driver, this work covers life, death, and everything in between. The...

‘Stuck with You’ Review – A Stale but Short Take on an Overdone Trope

December 29 2022, by Nicole Ackman

The trope of strangers getting stuck in an elevator and having revelations about their lives or forming a strong bond is one that’s been a...

10 Sexy Period Drama Movies like ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’

December 29 2022, by Lori Meek

Based on the scandalous novel of the same name by D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover was an original movie on Netflix. If sexy period drama movies about...

‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review and Ending Explained – a Vantablack Comedy That’s Far From Pompous

December 29 2022, by M.N. Miller

Let me know if I have this right. Ruben Östlund’s film Triangle of Sadness, a blistering Vantablack satire on the lack of morality that comes...

‘7 Women and a Murder’ Ending Explained – Who Killed Marcello?

December 28 2022, by Lori Meek

7 Women and a Murder is a Whodunit from Italy written and directed by Alessandro Genovesi. The film is set in an old manor house...

‘7 Women and a Murder’ Review – A Less Than Spicy and Dated Remake of a Murder Mystery Classic

December 28 2022, by Lori Meek

7 Women and a Murder is the Italian remake of a French cult classic from 2002, 8 Women, which was itself based on a popular stage play...

‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical’ Filming Locations Explained

December 28 2022, by Nicole Ackman

The stage musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda has been a hit since it first premiered in 2010 in Stratford-upon-Avon before transferring to the West...

‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical’ Ending Explained – Who are The Escapologist and The Acrobat?

December 28 2022, by Lori Meek

The film adaptation of the Olivier award-winning Matilda the Musical tells the charming story of a precocious young girl who uses her special abilities to...