Action-Adventure
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) Ending Explained – Why Is This Film Anti-War?
By the time Stanislaus “Kat” Katczinsky (Albrecht Abraham Schuch) and Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer) made it through their last battle, they thought they had survived...
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) Review – A Gut-Wrenching and Haunting Masterwork
There are few cinematic experiences this or any year like Edward Berger‘s adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. The director...
‘Shantaram’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – “The Sin in the Crime”
It’s easy to forget that Lindsay Ford (played by Charlie Hunnam) is a wanted man, what with the man parading around Bombay as a heroic slum...
‘Robbing Mussolini’ Ending Explained – How Do They Get The Gold?
Robbing Mussolini is a heist movie streaming on Netflix about a band of misfits rallied by a wartime entrepreneur to steal Mussolini’s legendary treasure. The pemise,...
‘Robbing Mussolini’ Review – Check Your Brain In At The Door
Pietro, or Isola as he likes to be known, is a thief operating in the Black Market during the closing days of World War Two...
‘Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap – What Happened in “Hedgehunter”?
In Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler Season 3, Episode 5, Bet was left in a very dangerous situation, and Alfie wondered whether he was...
‘Tales of the Jedi’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – “Resolve”
“Resolve” is a fantastic episode of Star Wars animation, with the same sense of cinematic majesty as The Clone Wars finale but a tighter emotional...
‘Tales of the Jedi’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – “Practice Makes Perfect”
Episode 5 is the weakest short in Tales of the Jedi Season 1, at least in part because it’s so short – too short even...
‘Tales of the Jedi’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – “The Sith Lord”
“The Sith Lord”, singular, is really about Sith Lords, multiple – at least two, but it’s the crucial turning point of a third, as this...
Tales of the Jedi Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – “Choices”
Following nicely on from Tales of the Jedi Episode 2, “Choices” catches up with an older Count Dooku on the next step of his inexorable...
Tales of the Jedi Season 1, Episode 2 Recap – “Justice”
Deviating away from Ahsoka’s origin story, which was featured in Tales of the Jedi Episode 1, “Justice” instead switches focus to Count Dooku in the...
‘Tales of the Jedi’ Season 1 Review – A Stirring But Slight Star Wars Anthology
Star Wars has never had a particularly complicated sense of morality. The bad guys all wear black, blow up planets, and command soldiers called Stormtroopers,...
‘Tales of the Jedi’ Season 1, Episode 1 Recap – “Life and Death”
The first episode of Tales of the Jedi, and the first of three centering on Ahsoka Tano, is a quiet, almost serene twenty minutes that...
‘Andor’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – “Narkina 5”
“Narkina 5”, the title of Season 1, Episode 8 of Andor, is the name of the Imperial factory facility to which Cassian is shipped off, having been...
‘Barbarians’ Season 2 Ending Explained
So, after the shocking revelation in Barbarians Season 2, Episode 5 that a seemingly endless supply of Roman ships is about to arrive, the tribes are...
‘Barbarians’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap – “Doomed”
It’s just like the Romans to launch even a surprise attack against unarmed opponents from a safe distance. As we discovered at the very end...
‘Barbarians’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – “The Oath”
In Barbarians Season 2, Episode 3, Ari named Marbod the king of the united Germanic tribes. It’s not quite official yet — there needs to be...
‘Barbarians’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap – “Fathers”
After his entirely unsubtle escape from the Roman camp in Barbarians Season 2, Episode 2, Ari is being pursued by a cadre of soldiers, which...
‘Black Adam’ Review – A Superhero Film With a Stunning Lack of Purpose
It’s surprising just how run-of-the-mill the DC Comics film Black Adam can be. The fact that it looks like a visual Zack Snyder retread is strange since everything...
‘Barbarians’ Season 2 Review – An Enjoyably Bloody Historical Escapade
Barbarians, a German Netflix series dramatizing the famed Battle of the Teutoburg Forest fought between the barbarian tribes and the Roman Empire, was a pretty...