Mystery & Thriller

One of the most enduring mysteries in the entertainment industry is Tyler Perry, whose adamancy in proudly putting his name in the title of execrable...

I’ve been kinder to The Acolyte than most critics have, but Episode 7, “Choice”, made me feel a bit silly for coming to its defense....

Let’s interrupt our regularly scheduled recapping by reiterating a point. When I wrote about Episode 5 of Presumed Innocent, I mentioned the small things; the details....

Things are getting a little tense in Mayor of Kingstown. There has been a burgeoning war between the Crips and the Russians – with a...

The Apple TV+ adaptation of the Scott Turow novel Presumed Innocent, which was the focus of a theatrically released movie starring Harrison Ford way back...

It’s difficult to know what to make of The Acolyte Episode 6, “Teach / Corrupt”, since very little happens in it but it’s full of...

Forty years after the debut of Axel Foley, Eddie Murphy returns to the iconic character in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, streaming on Netflix. The...

It’s the small stuff that makes Presumed Innocent great. The plot isn’t especially compelling and the characters are largely awful and if, like me, you’ve read the...

As if it wasn’t hard enough being Mike McLusky, the few people he does care about seem very eager to get themselves killed. Episode 5...

Like all superhero shows and movies, Supacell has a post-credits scene. While nothing is a guarantee these days, there’s enough going on after the first season’s ending...

One thing I’m not is a hater, so I’m happy to admit that Episode 5 of The Acolyte, fittingly titled “Night” after Episode 4, “Day”,...

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the ending of Dark Matter is neither as exciting as it should be nor as clever as it...

Every episode of Presumed Innocent thus far has depicted Rusty Sabich as a deeply selfish and arrogant man at best and a hopping madman at...

Rusty Sabich is his own worst enemy. This has been obvious since the beginning of Presumed Innocent, which made him look terrible in Episode 1...

The Presumed Innocent premiere made a real point of depicting Jake Gyllenhaal as a detestable psycho, and Episode 2, “People vs. Rozat Sabich”, gets right...

Legal thrillers are usually built around guilt, in one way or another, but it tends to be the accused whose true nature is mysterious. The...

Like most original Netflix shows, Gangs of Galicia clearly angles for Season 2 with an open-ended conclusion that leaves a few things unresolved. But the show...

Many crime dramas use real events as the basis for their fictional narrative, and Gangs of Galicia is no different. Based loosely on a police operation to...

Police forces the world over are famously intolerant of attacks on their own, so it isn’t much of a surprise that Episode 4 of Mayor...

You can have too much of a good thing, and Gangs of Galicia proves it. The drug-fuelled international crime thriller is a beloved streaming mainstay,...