Mystery & Thriller

First, the good news: The Acolyte Episode 4 is an improvement over last week’s episode, which according to some may have irreparably broken Star Wars...

Hotel Cocaine tells the partially true story of Roman Compte and the Mutiny Hotel and has its roots firmly in the cocaine scene in Miami in the...

Hotel Cocaine is not based on a true story. But it is based on real history, a real place, and a very real vibe of...

Kubra, a Turkish Netflix series based on a well-respected 2020 novel of the same name, tells the story of former marine turned car mechanic Gökhan...

In many ways, Episode 3 of Mayor of Kingstown Season 3 feels like a direct response to Episode 2, which narrowed its focus on Mike...

Mayor of Kingstown is a splashy show set in a corrupt prison town. It’s full of gang wars and shootouts and other fun things. And...

Indonesian film and TV is the most underrated in the world, for my money, and Joko Anwar proves it in Nightmares and Daydreams, an ambitious...

Under Paris taps into one of our greatest fears — scary things in the water that want to eat you. There has been a long...

Social media is currently awash with responses to The Acolyte Episode 3, which depending on who you ask is either the worst episode of Star Wars television ever, a...

I hate to have to say it, but Episode 3 of The Acolyte, “Destiny”, makes me sympathetic to those who think this is the worst...

I shouldn’t have to say this, but no — Under Paris is not based on a true story, and there are no sharks in the Seine...

The problem with heralding someone as a messiah is that, inevitably, it’s going to be revealed that they’re no such thing, and the ending of...

I’ll say this about Kubra Season 2 – it’ll get you thinking. And not many shows do that these days, let alone on Netflix. Kubra...

In what feels like the first Netflix special film of many to come, Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura is the Wrestlemania of Fighting Anime, and...

I’m not one to moan all the time, but Dark Matter is a challenge to sit through, let alone write about. Given there are nine...

The Acolyte is the first bit of live-action Star Wars storytelling not to be part of the Skywalker saga, a very contained span of galactic...

Depending on who you are, the ending of Under Paris, in which an army of mutated mako sharks essentially take over the world, is a...

The problem shark movies have is they got it right the first time. Yes, I know there were shark movies before Jaws, but that 1975...

Taylor Sheridan continues to be the creative crown jewel in Paramount+’s streaming strategy, and for proof look no further than Mayor of Kingstown. Season 3...

You could tell that Eric was going to be good. Why else would so many serious actors be attracted to a small-scale Netflix project? What...