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‘Gangs of Galicia’ Season 2 Would Have To Take Some Chances

June 24 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Like most original Netflix shows, Gangs of Galicia clearly angles for Season 2 with an open-ended conclusion that leaves a few things unresolved. But the show...

‘Kleks Academy’ 2 Could Explore Fairylandia More, But The Sequel Would Need To Improve

June 24 2024, by Daniel Hart

The possibilities of Kleks Academy 2 does have something riding on it, and that’s success at the Polish box office. According to Cineuropa, Kleks Academy...

‘Gangs of Galicia’ And The True Story That Inspired The Netflix Series

June 24 2024, by Louie Fecou

Many crime dramas use real events as the basis for their fictional narrative, and Gangs of Galicia is no different. Based loosely on a police operation to...

Recap: The Plot Thickens In ‘Miss Night and Day’ Episodes 3 & 4

June 24 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Episodes 3 and 4 of Miss Night and Day only prove what I said in my recap of the premiere. This isn’t the best show...

‘Gangs of Galicia’ Is A Sub-Par Crime Thriller With A Silly Ending

June 22 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

You can have too much of a good thing, and Gangs of Galicia proves it. The drug-fuelled international crime thriller is a beloved streaming mainstay,...

‘Gangs of Galicia’ Lives Up To Its Title With Its On-Location Production

June 22 2024, by Louie Fecou

Gangs of Galicia tells the story of Ana, a lawyer new to the small town of Cambados, who manages to upset the status quo and...

‘Trigger Warning’: All the Production Details Behind One of the Year’s Worst Movies

June 21 2024, by Louie Fecou

Trigger Warning stars Jessica Alba as a special ops commando taking over her father’s bar and falling foul of local thugs. The Netflix thriller was...

‘Trigger Warning’ Review: Jessica Alba Competes With Jennifer Lopez For Worst Movie Of The Year

June 21 2024, by Daniel Hart

I highly doubt Trigger Warning needed three lead writers overseeing this project. If it did, I’d love to know what they were doing. Whether I...

‘The Accidental Twins’ tells the incredible true story of a scientist’s dream

June 20 2024, by Daniel Hart

The Accidental Twins is not just another documentary. Its premise might sound like the plot of an upcoming movie. But it’s not fiction; it’s a...

‘AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders’ Confirms Greg Whiteley As The Best Sports Documentary Creator Of All Time

June 20 2024, by Daniel Hart

The main takeaway from AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders is that being part of the team of dancers is not necessarily some popularity contest for your...

Netflix’s Polish Murder-Mystery ‘Inheritance’ Is A Funny Whodunit With A Satisfying Climax

June 20 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Knives Out has a lot to answer for. Imitators of Rian Johnson’s whodunnit haven’t exactly been few and far between over the last few years,...

‘Kleks Academy’ has a fairytale ending, but the movie falls short of expectations

June 19 2024, by Daniel Hart

It’s best not to take Kleks Academy too seriously, as it’s rooted in children’s imagination, after all. However, I am not convinced that director Maciej...

Review: ‘Miss Night and Day’ Is Another Guaranteed K-Drama Hit

June 18 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Sometimes you just know a show is going to be a hit. This instinct rarely has anything to do with quality, either. Miss Night and...

‘Kubra’ Makes A Promised Land Out Of Istanbul

June 17 2024, by Louie Fecou

Kubra, a Turkish Netflix series based on a well-respected 2020 novel of the same name, tells the story of former marine turned car mechanic Gökhan...

Recap: ‘Miss Night and Day’ Impresses In Its First Two Episodes

June 16 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

With Episodes 1 and 2, Miss Night and Day establishes itself as the kind of K-Drama that people catch by chance and fall in love...

5 Crime Comedies like Netflix’s ‘Hit Man’ That Are Loosely Based On A True Story — Or Seem Like They Could Be

June 15 2024, by Louie Fecou

Netflix have a surprise hit on their hands, in more ways than one, with Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, a comedy crime thriller inspired by the...

Unpacking Every Scary Story In ‘Joko Anwar’s Nightmares and Daydreams’

June 15 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Across seven episodes, Joko Anwar’s Nightmares and Daydreams presents seemingly disconnected tales of horror and science-fiction, unified only, at first, by their Jakarta setting. But...

‘Joko Anwar’s Nightmares and Daydreams’ Is An Ambitious Horror Anthology

June 15 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Indonesian film and TV is the most underrated in the world, for my money, and Joko Anwar proves it in Nightmares and Daydreams, an ambitious...