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‘Shahmaran’ Season 1 Review – A Genre-Splicing Tale of Turkish Mythology
I must confess to having laughed at the premise of Shahmaran. You can blame Netflix. The streamer presented a summary to me with such complete...
‘Jung_E’ Ending Explained (In Detail) – Is The Simulation Completed?
The science fiction film Jung_E takes place in 2194. The title refers to a project cloning a fierce warrior (Kim Hyun-joo), the former leader of...
‘Jung_E’ Review – An Adrenaline Fuelled Dystopian Tale of Mothers and Daughters
Netflix’s Jung_E owes much of its story to a movie like Blade Runner by tapping into the classic’s mixture of themes like morality, identity, and...
‘Mission Majnu’ Review – An Empty True Story That Could Have Been More Emotional
Mission Majnu is based on a true story about an Indian agent who marries a Pakistani woman. He tries his best to stay out of the...
‘Truth Be Told’ Season 3 Review – Run-of-the-Mill True Crime with a Powerful Message
The true crime genre has become an unstoppable behemoth in recent years, leading to many TV shows, films, and podcasts. The podcast world, in particular,...
‘Alkhallat+’ Ending Explained – Is There a Lesson Learned at the End?
An anthology is only as good as its strongest story, and unfortunately, Fahad Alammari didn’t order his stories properly in Alkhallat+ to keep audiences engaged. The...
‘Alkhallat+’ Review – A Fun Concept That Fizzles In the Second Half
Alkhallat+ is an anthology piece that is difficult to execute in a two-hour film. Some pieces will be more engaging than others, and it comes down...
‘The Interest of Love’ Season 1, Episode 10 Recap – It’s Complicated Now
Ahn Su-yeong (Moon Ga-young) and Ha Sang-su (Yoo Yeon-seok) are officially playing with fire. They’ve held that burning desire for each other for too long, and...
‘Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre’ Season 2 Possibilities Explained
The Netflix anime anthology Junji Ito Maniac adapts the collected works of beloved mangaka Junji Ito into 20 stories spread across 12 25-minute episodes. This breezy collection is an ideal...
A Breakdown of Every Episode of ‘Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre’ Season 1
The Netflix anime anthology Junji Ito Maniac adapts the collected works of beloved mangaka Junji Ito into 20 stories spread across 12 25-minute episodes. Ito is a...
‘That ’90s Show’ Season 1 Review – Successfully Revamping a Beloved Series
Nostalgia is a surefire way to bring flocks of fans back. When That’90s Show released the cast list, hype ensued, with the memories of That...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 12 Recap – “Whispering Woman” / “Soichi’s Beloved Pet”
“Whispering Woman” is adapted from the eighth chapter of Ma No Kakera, and treads unusual territory by being rooted in friendship and a positive bond,...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 11 Recap – “Alley” / “Headless Statue”
“Alley”, essentially a murder mystery with a supernatural slant, is adapted from Back Alley, the fifth chapter of The Bully from Horror World of Junji Ito. For Ito...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 10 Recap – “Unendurable Labyrinth” / “The Bully”
This double-bill episode collects, I think, the weirdest pair of stories in Junji Ito Maniac, not in terms of their actual content but in how...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap – “Tomie – Photo”
Tomie is one of Junji Ito’s most iconic characters. She got an entire volume devoted to her in Horror World of Junji Ito and her...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – “Layers of Terror” / “The Thing That Drifted Ashore”
Oh goodness, this is a weird one. There’s a case to be made that this is the most horrifying and imaginative episode of Junji Ito Maniac thus...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – “Tomb Town”
Junji Ito Maniac abandons the dual-story structure in its seventh episode to instead deliver a more comprehensive and focused adaptation of Street of Gravestones (or...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – “Mold” / “Library Vision”
“Mold”, a story adapted from the seventh volume of Horror World of Junji Ito, Slug Girl, is another creeping tale of rapidly-worsening circumstances that revolves heavily...