Mystery & Thriller

Sometime last year, the realisation dawned on me: Paddy Considine is a sublime actor. You don’t necessarily understand everything about his character, but you can’t...

Plagi Breslau (Plagues of Breslau) opens with a parcel being found in a market. It’s made up of a sewn-together hide of a high-quality bull,...

Netflix continues its burgeoning relationship with Indonesian cinema, one of which is Raditya Dika’s comedy-thriller Target. It must be said, though, that the previously high...

I’m increasingly of the opinion that more films should have the confidence to get in and out in a mere 81 minutes – especially a...

Having stealthily infiltrated Netflix today, Gun City at least lives up to its premise. Set in a painstakingly recreated Barcelona of the early 1920s, Dani...

Don’t Breathe is a chilling venture into the world of a blind marine veteran; a world of complete darkness. After its debut in 2016, Don’t Breathe soon...

From Director Stephan Rick (The Dark Side of the Moon) and writer John J McLaughlin (Black Swan and Hitchcock) comes The Super, a horror mystery thriller...

We recap the series You Season 1 Episode 5, which will contain significant spoilers and major plot points. Of all the totally unrealistic shit that...

Here is our review of the 2017 horror film Serpent, which does not contain significant spoilers or plot twists. The directorial debut of Amanda Evans...

Directed by Sara Colangelo, we review The Kindergarten Teacher (2018), which does not contain spoilers.  The Kindergarten Teacher, written and directed by Sara Colangelo, is...

The Wife opens with the fictional acclaimed writer and professor, Joel Casselman, waking up to a phone call from Stockholm, Sweden, in which he is...

We recap the series You Season 1 Episode 4, which will contain significant spoilers and major plot points. Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) was so disappointing...

We recap the series You Season 1 Episode 3, which will contain significant spoilers and major plot points. Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is useless. He’s...

We recap the series You Season 1 Episode 2, which will contain significant spoilers and major plot points. There’s more than one reason that You...

A Simple Favour is about Emily (Blake Lively) and Stephanie (Anna Kendrick): very contrasting friends who meet via their sons at the school gate. Stephanie...

We recap the series You Season 1 Episode 1, which will contain significant spoilers and major plot points. Based on the book of the same...

The rather obviously-titled UFO was clearly a student at the Dan Brown school of so-called “clever” fiction. It speaks entirely in mouthfuls of semi-interesting facts...

Writer-director Bart Layton’s American Animals is a funny, suspenseful heist film wrapped around a true crime documentary. And it’s just brilliant. Evan Peters, Barry Keoughan,...

We review the 2018 film Searching, which does not contain any major spoilers or plot points.  Searching might look like a found-footage film at first, and...

For a non-James Bond or Doctor Who franchise that has been rebooted four times and had five different actors playing the title role, you’d think...