Mystery & Thriller

Locked In (2023) is a straight-to-Netflix British B-thriller with all the guilty pleasure elements you would expect from the genre. There’s a remote mansion, a...

Black Cake has a lot going for it. It’s adapted from the same-titled New York Times bestseller by Charmaine Wilkerson. It’s fronted by Mia Isaac,...

The Netflix film Hurricane Season (2023) is based on the book of the same name by Fernanda Melchor. Book adaptations are always difficult because there...

Mélanie Laurent, who broke through in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, has made a name for herself as a filmmaker and is back in the director’s...

Out of all the fights coming up in the Shibuya Incident arc, Yuji versus Choso was easily one of the most anticipated to air this...

2023 seems to have brought an end to the curse of the video game adaptation, with The Last of Us gaining countless award nominations and...

In Burning Betrayal, Babi (Giovanna Lancellotti) is blindsided by her fiance, who is currently on trial for money laundering. After five years of being with him,...

Well, folks, we’ve finally made it, and Elite Season 7 has been a particularly aggravating journey. Knowing that the ending of Season 7 is really...

“Just Hug Me”, the penultimate episode of Elite Season 7, really just proves what I’ve been saying all along – this show is rubbish. And...

Before we get into “Rock Bottom”, Episode 6 of Elite Season 7, permit me a small point. It occurs to me that it’s difficult to...

Episode 4 was, on balance, probably the best episode of Elite Season 7. Episode 5, on the other hand, is not. At all. There’s a...

There’s always a party episode in Elite and other teen dramas, and it’s always followed by the hangover episode, or the “morning after the night...

Are things picking up a little in Elite Season 7? That might be a touch ambitious, but at the very least Episode 3, “Bling-Bling”, has...

Elite Season 7 continues its run of bad form in Episode 2, “Protocol”, which still lacks anything worthy of an audience’s attention. There’s no murder,...

You’ll notice immediately that “Las Encinas”, Episode 1 of Elite Season 7, doesn’t play out like one of the show’s premieres usually does. There’s no...

No series typifies Netflix better than Elite, a lusty Spanish high-school melodrama that has just debuted its seventh season despite not having been any good...

Episode 13 of Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 has a lot to live up to this week after Nanami’s fight with Haruta more than satisfied viewers...

We’re now fully into Autumn with pumpkin spice lattes and horror films galore. Prime Video have released an original production called In My Mother’s Skin....

October is the time for all horror films to shine, and fortunately for the genre, it’s so vast that many films can get away with...

The eighth and final installment in Season 1 of Apple TV+’s The Changeling brings what has been a surprisingly divisive show to a predictably uncertain...