Drama
‘Half Bad: The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself’ Season 1 Review – Harry Potter Meets Hostel
Half Bad: The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself has everything going for it. The title can’t be ignored. The genre is young-adult fantasy, beloved...
‘Cici’ Ending Explained – What Really Happened to Bekir?
Cici is a Netflix drama from Turkey. Written and directed by Berkun Oya, the film explores the lives of a family across two timelines. Synopsis...
‘Cici’ Review – A Slow Melodrama About a Dysfunctional Family
Cici is a dramatic offering from Turkey directed by Berkun Oya. Featuring known Turkish actors like Fatih Artman, Sevval Balkan, and Ayça Bingöl, the Netflix film...
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...
‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – “The Murmuring”
Each story from Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities has ranged from intriguing to terrifying to downright gruesome. The last installment, however, is a bit different. Episode...
‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – “The Viewing”
Episode 7 of Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities is a fun homage to the B horror movies made famous in the 70s. When it...
‘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...
‘The Peripheral’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – “Haptic Drift”
There is a lot of futuristic technology at play in The Peripheral, and not all of it has been properly introduced just yet. In Season...
‘High School’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – “Hello I’m Right Here”
We had a bit of a filler episode of High School that ended with a bit of an emotional bang. From the sisters getting grounded...
‘Hellhole’ Ending Explained – What Happened to the Missing Girls and Why Did the Ritual Fail?
In 1987, Poland, a police officer investigating mysterious disappearances infiltrates a remote monastery and discovers a dark truth about its clergy. The horror film, Hellhole,...
‘Hellhole’ Review – Why Is This Religious Horror Interesting But Dull?
The horror film, Hellhole, was co-written and directed by Bartosz M. Kowalski, and he creates a sinister atmosphere from the very beginning of the film....
‘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...
‘The Devil’s Hour’ Season 1 Review – Peter Capaldi Haunts In This Frightening Thriller
Call it superstition, coincidence, or OCD, but there is no denying the fact that the human race has a serious fascination with numbers. The number...
‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – “Dreams in the Witch House”
You can’t have a horror anthology series without a slice of witchcraft, now can you? Catherine Hardwicke, who tackled vampires in the opening Twilight movie,...
‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – “Pickman’s Model”
Darkness has a way of clinging to us. Horror movie moments tend to stick with us more than, say, those found in a rom-com, while...
‘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...
‘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...
‘The Good Nurse’ Ending Explained – Why Did Charles Cullen Murder Patients?
The Good Nurse is based on the true story of Charles Cullen and his crimes as what some people call “an angel of mercy” killer....
‘The Good Nurse’ Review: Chilling Medical Betrayal Based on a True Story
Hundreds of films have been made about real-life killers or those with the “serial” stamp of approval. Sure, you have your Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer,...