Mystery & Thriller
‘Poker Face’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – Why Is Charlie Touring with a Rock Band?
By the fourth episode, it is evident that Poker Face has properly settled into a routine now and it is obvious to viewers just how...
‘Poker Face’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – How Does Charlie Get the Killer to Confess?
Poker Face isn’t a whodunit-style murder mystery but more a howcatchem, inverted detective story, where the murderer and the murder itself are shown to viewers,...
‘Poker Face’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap – How Does Cliff Track Down Charlie’s Location?
In the opening installment of Poker Face, Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne) managed to solve her first-ever murder case. She figured out who had killed her...
‘National Treasure: Edge of History’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – How Does Jess Break Rafael Out of Prison?
Breaking out of prison is, by all accounts, somewhat difficult to do. They’re kind of built to make that difficult. But breaking in, at least...
‘Poker Face’ Season 1 Review and Episode 1 Recap – Rian Johnson Revives a Tired Genre with Spellbinding Results
After the wham-bam, back-to-back hits of Knives Out and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, writer and director Rian Johnson decides to stick with what...
Missing (2023) Ending Explained – How Does June Find Her Mom?
Missing is a “screenlife” movie with “visual storytelling where all the events are shown on a computer, tablet or smartphone screen” that has become popular...
‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap – Why is Ellie so important?
Episode 2 begins with the authorities entering a restaurant looking for someone. During the car ride, the lady asked if she had committed any crimes,...
Missing (2023) Review – Anxiety-Ridden and Armrest-Grabbing Movie
There is just something about the new genre of storytelling from the original makers of Searching that brings the necessary storytelling suspense that audiences have...
‘Mission Majnu’ Review – An Empty True Story That Could Have Been More Emotional
Mission Majnu is based on a true story about an Indian agent who marries a Pakistani woman. He tries his best to stay out of the...
‘Truth Be Told’ Season 3 Review – Run-of-the-Mill True Crime with a Powerful Message
The true crime genre has become an unstoppable behemoth in recent years, leading to many TV shows, films, and podcasts. The podcast world, in particular,...
‘Alkhallat+’ Ending Explained – Is There a Lesson Learned at the End?
An anthology is only as good as its strongest story, and unfortunately, Fahad Alammari didn’t order his stories properly in Alkhallat+ to keep audiences engaged. The...
‘Alkhallat+’ Review – A Fun Concept That Fizzles In the Second Half
Alkhallat+ is an anthology piece that is difficult to execute in a two-hour film. Some pieces will be more engaging than others, and it comes down...
‘Servant’ Season 4 Episode 2 Recap – How Will Dorothy Protect Herself from Leanne?
Season 4, Episode 1 seemed to pay homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, with a plague of pigeons descending upon the Turner’s neighborhood. In Episode...
‘Truth Be Told’ Season 3, Episode 1 Recap – Why Has Drea Spivey Gone Missing?
Only Murders in the Building may be the most popular mystery series out there about podcasters solving crimes, but Apple TV+ has its own equivalent...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 12 Recap – “Whispering Woman” / “Soichi’s Beloved Pet”
“Whispering Woman” is adapted from the eighth chapter of Ma No Kakera, and treads unusual territory by being rooted in friendship and a positive bond,...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 11 Recap – “Alley” / “Headless Statue”
“Alley”, essentially a murder mystery with a supernatural slant, is adapted from Back Alley, the fifth chapter of The Bully from Horror World of Junji Ito. For Ito...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 10 Recap – “Unendurable Labyrinth” / “The Bully”
This double-bill episode collects, I think, the weirdest pair of stories in Junji Ito Maniac, not in terms of their actual content but in how...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap – “Tomie – Photo”
Tomie is one of Junji Ito’s most iconic characters. She got an entire volume devoted to her in Horror World of Junji Ito and her...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – “Layers of Terror” / “The Thing That Drifted Ashore”
Oh goodness, this is a weird one. There’s a case to be made that this is the most horrifying and imaginative episode of Junji Ito Maniac thus...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – “Tomb Town”
Junji Ito Maniac abandons the dual-story structure in its seventh episode to instead deliver a more comprehensive and focused adaptation of Street of Gravestones (or...