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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 Winning Try’ Episode 3 Delivers Huge Emotion Out Of Nowhere

August 1 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

The Winning Try never ceases to amaze me. After the premiere suggested we had a great show on our hands, and the second episode proved that quality...

‘Eyes of Wakanda’ Breathes New Life Into One of the MCU’s Most Compelling Settings

August 1 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

For all its considerable flaws, the MCU is a bounty of creative riches. Something like Wakanda, a secretive Afrofuturist wonderland of preserved culture and advanced...

Breaking Down Every Episode Of ‘Eyes Of Wakanda’

August 1 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

It takes an effort to remember this now, but everyone used to keep track of what phase the Marvel Cinematic Universe was in. It used...

‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Episode 5 Suggests Murder Doesn’t Run in the Family

August 1 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Like father, like son, or so the saying goes, but the point of Dexter: Resurrection is increasingly becoming to disprove that idea.

‘Chief of War’ Episode 2 Features Several Surprising (And Welcome) Turns

August 1 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Meet Ka'ahumanu. She's a character who is going to be pretty integral to Chief of War, but she's introduced in Episode 2 without a great deal of fanfare in a cold open that left me a bit confused.

‘Smoke’ Episode 7 Features One Of The Very Best Scenes of the Year

August 1 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

I'm not given to hyperbole as a rule, so know this -- there's a long-ish sequence in Episode 7 of Smoke that I earnestly believe is one of the year's very best.

Jason Momoa Has Never Been Cooler Than In ‘Chief of War’ Episode 1

August 1 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Chief of War is a very serious and passionately rendered show about real history and indigenous representation and storytelling.

‘Twisted Metal’ Season 2 Is Off to the Races With A Fun, Messy Three-Episode Premiere

July 31 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Start your engines, ladies and gentlemen. Twisted Metal is back for Season 2, and it’s bigger and better than ever. This might not be immediately apparent in...

‘Twisted Metal’ Season 2 Is Bigger, Better, And More Like the Games

July 31 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Two years after Season 1 turned out to be surprisingly good, and thirty years after the debut of the long-abandoned PlayStation series on which it’s...

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...

‘The Buccaneers’ Season 2, Episode 7 Reinvents Itself As A Legal Thriller

July 30 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

You could -- and perhaps should -- quibble about where "All Rise" fits into The Buccaneers Season 2 more broadly, especially since it means the fallout from Dick's death last week ends up feeling a little shortchanged.

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....

‘WWE: Unreal’ Is Built On A Fundamentally Bad Idea

July 29 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

There’s a concept in professional wrestling – or “sports entertainment”, whatever you prefer – known as “kayfabe”. In simple terms, it’s the idea of keeping...

‘Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes’ Cleverly Reworks An Effective Formula

July 29 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

The problem with David Berkowitz, aka the “.44 Caliber Killer” and, eventually, “The Son of Sam”, is that in a true crime streaming context, he...

Here’s Everything You Need to Remember About ‘Twisted Metal’ Season 1

July 28 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Bucking the trend of video game adaptations being woeful, Peacock’s Twisted Metal was a good time. This is especially surprising considering it was based on...

Disasterclass: Seeing the Funny Side Of Catastrophe

July 28 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

When the first of Netflix’s batch of Trainwreck documentaries debuted on June 10, 2025, it began an eight-week trend of the short films infiltrating the most-watched movies...