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It was, I think, pretty inevitable that The Asset wasn’t going to have a happy ending. It’s just that kind of show. Like I’ve said already, undercover...

Folke's awful, isn't he? Here we were, thinking that Tea had done a pretty good job of sending Ashley back into Miran's clutches with a bit of tasteful reassurance, but that's not good enough for Folke, who is adamant that Ashley needs to stay with Miran at all costs.

You know how it goes -- one minute you're making new friends and doing deals, the next someone is getting shot to death right in front of you.

The morning after the night before is never easy. If you're a recovering drug addict who just had a few bumps of Class A narcotics, and if your friendship with your new bestie is liable to get her killed by her dangerous mobster boyfriend, the morning after is a whole new nightmare.

As someone who watches a lot of film and TV, I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of undercover work. What I’m primarily interested in...

There’s a longstanding joke about how easily men make friends, but The Asset holds that the same is true for women. As it turns out, if your...

Who’s the best person to go undercover in a drug-smuggling syndicate? According to Episode 1 of Netflix’s The Asset, it’s a traumatized woman with no experience...

There’s a peculiar predicament that Typhoon Family finds itself in, I think as a consequence of being backdropped by a very real financial crisis.

I wasn’t a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, a too-glossy triptych boasting too many stars and a recursive storytelling gimmick that...

Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite is built on a great idea, rippling with urgency and tension. Out of nowhere, an ICBM is launched at...

It’s very hard to come up with a happy ending in a zombie movie, which is probably why The Elixir doesn’t even try. This, I’d argue, is...

You can’t make zombies interesting in 2025. It’s impossible. The shambling undead in Kimo Stamboel’s Netflix streamer The Elixir are nothing you haven’t seen before. They...

At first blush, Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia is a fairly run-of-the-mill Netflix docuseries. It’s littered with talking heads, packed with detail and important...

This is perhaps a controversial thing to say, but having children tends to ruin comedians. This is not a unique phenomenon, nor is it a...

Tae-poong has a lot of admirable qualities in Typhoon Family, but the guy’s pretty unlucky.

Typhoon Family is the quintessential example of a show with very familiar constituent parts – a real-life period of turbulent history, a wayward son forced to grow up at pace, a burgeoning romance, and so on – that feels fresh and distinct through its basic underlying quality.

The Perfect Neighbor is an engaging and quite uniquely constructed true-crime documentary that, at about the midpoint, morphs into one of the most harrowing films...

Good News (2025) opens with a disclaimer that, while the story is based on real events, most of it is entirely fictional. And this largely...