Mystery & Thriller

Traitors Season 1 Episode 5 Recap

March 17 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Traitors Season 1 Episode 5 contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these words. The...

‘Welcome to Acapulco’ | Film Review

March 12 2019, by Daniel Hart

Welcome to Acapulco follows Matt Booth (Michael Kingsbaker), a video game programmer who is about to seal the most momentous deal of his life after putting...

‘Everybody Knows’ Film Review

March 12 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Academy Awards all round for the main players of Spanish thriller Everybody Knows; with Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and director Asghar Farhadi involved you wouldn’t...

Traitors Season 1 Episode 4 Recap

March 11 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Traitors Season 1 Episode 4 contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these words. After...

Traitors Season 1 Episode 3 Recap

March 3 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Traitors Season 1 Episode 3 contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these words. Traitors Episode...

‘Greta’ Film Review

March 3 2019, by Tyler Howat

Greta (Isabelle Huppert) accidentally leaves her handbag on the subway, and Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz), being a kind soul, returns it to her. Greta lives...

‘Atone’ | Film Review

February 26 2019, by Daniel Hart

On the surface, Wes Miller’s movie Atone is about a pastor receiving backlash from taking everything from the community and not giving back. The film is also...

Traitors Season 1 Episode 2 Recap

February 24 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Traitors Season 1 Episode 2 contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these words. Traitors Episode...

‘Dismissed’ | Film Review

February 24 2019, by Alix Turner

Dismissed is a very interesting film: it would be a perfectly satisfactory thriller to casually pass the time with, but if you give it a...

Traitors Season 1 Episode 1 Recap

February 17 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Traitors Season 1 Episode 1 contains spoilers. The day has come. Channel 4’s (soon to be on Netflix internationally) much-anticipated spy-thriller Traitors, a 6-part...

Glass (2019) Review

January 17 2019, by M.N. Miller

We review the 2019 film Glass, which does not contain any significant spoilers. For me, M. Night Shyamalan used to be opening day appointment viewing....

‘Escape Room’ | Film Review

January 14 2019, by M.N. Miller

The escape room fad will eventually fade away like dance marathons, garbage pail kids, and planking.  What won’t ever go out of style is the...

‘The Vanishing’ (2019) | Film Review

January 5 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Inspired by the enduring mystery of three lighthouse keepers who went missing from the coast of Scotland in 1900, Danish director Kristoffer Nyholm’s feature debut...

‘The Clovehitch Killer’ | Film Review

January 4 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

The Clovehitch Killer, directed by Duncan Skiles, is a serial killer mystery thriller that details the horrors that can lurk beneath even the most affable of...

‘Rust Creek’ (2018) | Film Review

January 1 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Rust Creek is from director Jen McGowan (Kelly & Cal) and stars Hermione Corfield (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) Micah Hauptman (Everest) and Jay Paulson...

‘The Domestics’ Review – Mike P. Nelson’s Freshman Outing

December 31 2018, by Tyler Howat

In The Domestics, the US has essentially become the land of The Purge after a dictatorial government gassed everyone and hundreds of millions died. There’s still...

‘When Angels Sleep’ | Netflix Film Review

December 28 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

Written and directed by Gonzalo Bendala, When Angels Sleep debuted on Netflix today with some of the most unintentionally hilarious English dubbing in recent memory....

‘Backtrace’ | Film Review

December 15 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

Matthew Modine is in urgent need of codeine in Brian Miller’s Backtrace, a workmanlike genre flick in which he plays an amnesiac bank robber who...

‘Blood Brother’ | Film Review

December 4 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

Blood Brother is a film that is a little bit better than you’d think and a lot worse than it might have been. Any low...

‘Prodigy’ (2018) | Film Review

December 2 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

Prodigy is from writer and director Nathan Leon in his feature film debut, starring Cory Kays, Hailey Henry and newcomer Embry Johnson, and is a...