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Recap: The Dance of the Dragons Begins In ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2, Episode 4

July 8 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

The excitement about House of the Dragon was never due to the quality of the novel it’s based on, Fire & Blood, a slightly dusty...

‘The Imaginary’ Explores the Conscious Boundary Between Childhood Innocence and the Transition to Adulthood

July 5 2024, by Daniel Hart

One thing I never had as a child was an imaginary friend, but I recall one night believing that Santa Claus was sneaking around the...

Recap: ‘The Acolyte’ Episode 6 Loses All Momentum

July 3 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

It’s difficult to know what to make of The Acolyte Episode 6, “Teach / Corrupt”, since very little happens in it but it’s full of...

Review: ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ Is The Perfect Summer Action-Comedy

July 3 2024, by Ricky Valero

Forty years after the debut of Axel Foley, Eddie Murphy returns to the iconic character in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, streaming on Netflix. The...

Netflix’s ‘Supacell’ Cannot Be Separated From South London

July 1 2024, by Louie Fecou

Supacell is intimately tied to South London, so it makes sense the show was filmed on location in the estates, stations, high streets, and hospitals of...

Rapman Made A Clever Cultural Statement With The Powers In ‘Supacell’

June 29 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Rapman’s Supacell is basically Top Boy meets the X-Men, with all of the cultural commentary you might expect from that premise. Set and filmed in South London, the show is...

‘The Boys’ Season 4, Episode 5 Explained: Butcher Has Different Ideas For The Virus

June 27 2024, by Daniel Hart

Episode 5 of The Boys Season 4 centers on the annual V52 Expo, which is Vought’s conference announcing the slate of media that will be...

Review: ‘Supacell’ Proves There’s Life In The Superhero Genre Yet

June 27 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Thanks to the MCU’s rapid and drastic decline in quality and appeal, it’s easy to believe that superhero stories have had their day. But not...

Recap: ‘The Acolyte’ Episode 5 Is The Best Yet — And It’s Not Even Close

June 26 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

One thing I’m not is a hater, so I’m happy to admit that Episode 5 of The Acolyte, fittingly titled “Night” after Episode 4, “Day”,...

Recap: ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2 Continues To Pull No Punches in Episode 2

June 24 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

You know House of the Dragon is a grim show because in the Season 2 premiere a child got his head cut off. But you...

Shock and Awe: Here Are 10 Provocative Shows Like ‘The Boys’

June 22 2024, by Louie Fecou

The Boys became a hit series for Prime Video by taking the tropes of comic book superheroes and subverting them into a shocking often ultra-violent...

‘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 Boys Season 4, Episode 4 Explained: Homelander Wants His Audience To Feel Sorry For Him

June 20 2024, by Daniel Hart

As I enjoyed The Boys Season 4, Episode 4, I realized that Homelander breaks the fourth wall—not by looking at the camera and talking to...

‘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...

Recap: Did ‘The Acolyte’ Episode 4 Just Break Canon Again?

June 19 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

First, the good news: The Acolyte Episode 4 is an improvement over last week’s episode, which according to some may have irreparably broken Star Wars...

‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2, Episode 1 Promises A Bloodbath Is Coming

June 18 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

House of the Dragon Season 2 begins with some reassurances. It’s still good, for a start. Episode 1, “A Son for a Son”, is actually...

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...

‘Ultraman: Rising’ Is Surprisingly Cute and Endearing

June 14 2024, by Daniel Hart

Taking on your father’s mantle can be difficult, and that’s what Ken Sato has to do in Ultraman: Rising, the latest addition to the Ultraman...

Explore Post-Apocalyptic Settings And Doomsday Scenarios With 7 Shows Like ‘Sweet Tooth’

June 14 2024, by Louie Fecou

Netflix’s comic book-based fantasy series Sweet Tooth sees a half-human half-deer boy trying to find his way through a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by other hybrids....