Drama

The Wolf’s Call Review: Ears Save The World In French Netflix Thriller

June 21 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

In the French Netflix thriller The Wolf’s Call, known in its native tongue as Le Chant du Loup, François Civil plays an underwater acoustics expert by...

Go! Live Your Way Season 2 Review: Netflix Series Will Not Be The Next Glee

June 21 2019, by Daniel Hart

It’s peculiar how Netflix have started a new habit of releasing a second season close to the first and Go! Live Your Way season 2...

‘Blood Will Tell’ Review: A Shaky Thriller That Gets Stronger In The Second Act

June 21 2019, by Daniel Hart

Argentinian film Blood Will Tell, or in its native language La Misma Sangre, gets off to an unreasonable start. The thriller begins with Carla’s husband’s (Diego...

Beats (2019) Review: Music Drives The Netflix Film Forward

June 18 2019, by Daniel Hart

At the start of Netflix Film Beats, I was genuinely concerned that it was going to lack the emotional buy-in because the opening is curiously...

The Sun Is Also a Star Review: A Tomato Is Also a Fruit

June 18 2019, by M.N. Miller

There’s nothing much I wouldn’t say I like more than a hokey, cheesy, eye-roll enduring YA-novel film adaption. They seem to be the brainchild of...

Euphoria Recap: Well, That Was Vaguely Terrifying

June 17 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

This Euphoria Episode 1 recap contains spoilers. Combining the drug-addled partygoing extravagance of traditional teen dramas with the prestige gloss and harrowingly up-front depictions of...

Jessica Jones Recap: A Shallow Grave

June 17 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

This Jessica Jones Season 3, Episode 7 recap for the episode titled “A.K.A The Double Half-Wappinger” contains spoilers. Jeri Hogarth can always be relied upon...

Yankee Season 1 Review: Another Netflix Drug Lord Series…

June 14 2019, by Daniel Hart

After giving Yankee season 1 a viewing, I’m confident that one of the executives at Netflix is an ex-narcotics cop. How many series on the...

‘Unit 42’ Season 1 Review: Belgian Netflix Series Brings Widowed Cop & Hacker Together

June 14 2019, by Daniel Hart

Belgian Netflix series Unit 42 Season 1 pits together two characters on opposite ends of the spectrum. Samuel Leroy (Patrick Ridremont) is widowed and has...

Charité at War Review: Netflix Series Presents Compelling Hospital Drama In Nazi Germany

June 14 2019, by Daniel Hart

The Netflix content machine churns out another German series, basing itself in a hospital during 1943, tackling the politics of war and the revelations of...

Leila Review: A Bold, Challenging Indian Original Series

June 14 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

The six-episode first season of the new Indian Netflix Original Series Leila is just the right kind of near-future dystopian fiction. It’s deliberately provocative, challenging, and...

Big Little Lies Recap: Meryl Streep Achieves Her Final Form

June 10 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

This Big Little Lies Season 2 Episode 1 recap for the episode titled “What Have They Done?” contains spoilers. With the television landscape being what...

‘Elisa & Marcela’ Review: Netflix Film Is A Slow-Moving Same-Sex Marriage Story

June 7 2019, by Daniel Hart

Netflix film Elisa & Marcela has been trounced before its consensus on Rotten Tomatoes. It can be assumed that the extensive sex scenes in the middle...

Tales of the City Review: Is Being Well-Meaning Enough?

June 7 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Is it cynical of Netflix to capitalize on Pride Month? It’s good business, for sure, and perhaps that’s all that matters, especially when the streaming...

‘All is well’ Review – Netflix Film Provides Sobering View On Sexual Assault

June 6 2019, by Daniel Hart

Netflix German film All is well reminded of a recent time when I listened to the radio to hear a horrifying trend that rape cases...

Black Mirror Season 5 Review: “Smithereens”

June 5 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

This Black Mirror Season 5 Episode 2 review for the episode titled “Smithereens” contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode...

Black Mirror Season 5 Review

June 5 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Heading into its fifth season, Black Mirror remains one of the most oddly prescient, daringly eclectic and inherently contradictory shows in existence, and if its three-episode fifth...

Chernobyl Finale Recap: Political, Not Radioactive Fallout Defines A Disaster’s Legacy

June 4 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

This Chernobyl episode 5 recap for the episode titled “Vichnaya Pamyat” contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking...

Oh, Ramona! Review: From Nerd To 50 Shades

June 1 2019, by Daniel Hart

Netflix film Oh, Ramona! pitches a nerd so incredulously naive when it comes to interacting with women that it becomes the theme of the entire story....

How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast) Review: This Doesn’t Seem Like Good Advice

May 31 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Provocative titles tend to do well for Netflix — just look at My Husband Won’t Fit — and so How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) is already off...