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‘Steve’ Ending Explained – Haunting Ambiguity Is A Powerful Choice
You’re not supposed to quite know what to make of the ending of Steve, particularly its final frames depicting the titular headteacher climbing a ladder...
‘Steve’ Review – Cillian Murphy’s Remarkable Real-Time Breakdown
Steve is named after Cillian Murphy’s character, a spiralling reform college headteacher who’s in the midst of a substance abuse-accelerated mental breakdown. The movie isn’t...
‘The Game: You Never Play Alone’ Ending Explained – Who Else But the Creepy Dudes?
You could have predicted the ending of The Game: You Never Play Alone after the first couple of episodes. I’ll provide a bit more clarity,...
‘The Game: You Never Play Alone’ Review – Timely Cautionary Fare Gets Predictable
Coming as a surprise to precisely nobody, the video game industry is pretty aggressively male-dominated. That’s a reality that is, thankfully, beginning to change, but...
‘Nightmares of Nature’ Review – A Genius Idea Feels Frustratingly Stuck in the Middle
I’ve often criticised Blumhouse for treating the horror genre as a conveyor belt of lowest-common-denominator cliches, and as we enter October, I’m sure I’ll have...
‘Bon Appetit, Your Majesty’ Ending Explained – The Happily Ever After Everyone Wanted
Don’t let me keep you in suspense. Yes, Bon Appetit, Your Majesty has the happy ending everyone wanted. Episode 12 isn’t about historical realism or...
‘Bon Appetit, Your Majesty’ Episode 11 Recap – A Suitably Dramatic Penultimate Outing
It’s Episode 11, aka the penultimate instalment of Bon Appetit, Your Majesty, and finally, the K-Drama is starting to act like a show with some pretty significant threads to wrap up that can’t afford to waste three episodes on a cooking contest.
‘Mantis’ Ending Explained – A Three-Way Fight Settles Some Difference
And of course, it all comes down to a fight. This seems fitting for the ending of Mantis, which is about the battle for leadership...
‘Mantis’ Review – Netflix’s Spin-Off Boasts Fun Action But Is Lacking Character
2023’s Kill Boksoon became one of the most successful South Korean Netflix Original Films ever, somewhat unexpectedly. It was good, an action-packed assassin thriller with...
‘Cristela Alonzo: Upper Classy’ Review – Unadventurous Comedy Hides Moving Personal Insights
I’m a bit mixed on Cristela Alonzo. I don’t find her that funny, aside from the odd well-observed throwaway punchline that tends to punctuate longer...
‘Bon Appetit, Your Majesty’ Episode 10 Recap – French Cuisine Cures Poisoning
Who knew unjust imprisonment could be so… romantic?
‘Bon Appetit, Your Majesty’ Episode 9 Recap – Thank Goodness That’s Over
For a while now, I’ve been complaining about Bon Appetit, Your Majesty wasting time on this damn cooking competition.
‘Billionaires’ Bunker’ Ending Explained – Even The Filthy Rich Aren’t Safe
There has long been a cliché about rich people and buying immortality. Popular tropes involve cryogenic freezing, downloading consciousnesses into AIs, and so on, and...
‘Billionaire’s Bunker’ Review – A Dynamite Premise Devolves Into Tedium
Some shows get people in the door with a premise alone, and such is the case with Billionaire’s Bunker, another effort from beloved Spanish creative...
‘Rebel Royals: An Unlikely Love Story’ Review – A Fine Unintentional Comedy
You always run a bit of a risk laughing at something like Rebel Royals: An Unlikely Love Story. It touches on subjects that are very...
‘Bon Appetit, Your Majesty’ Episode 8 Recap – I Hope You’re Not Hungry
And here I was, complaining about how long it took Bon Appetit, Your Majesty to finally get around to the cooking competition.
‘Bon Appetit, Your Majesty’ Episode 7 Recap – It’s Time For A Side Quest
I’ll be the first to admit that I thought a cooking competition was a good idea for Bon Appetit, Your Majesty. It might still be. We wouldn’t know, since it still hasn’t happened yet.
‘Maledictions’ Ending Explained – A Fittingly Slippery Climax
To explain the ending of Maledictions is, given its length, to essentially explain the whole thing. Daniel Burman’s neat little political thriller is akin to...