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If you’re a fan of old-fashioned spy thrillers – especially if you love a good MI5/British Intelligence yarn – then have I got a show for you. The impressively plotted Slow Horses begins this Friday on AppleTV+ and, in addition to sporting a hell of a British cast (Kristen Scott Thomas, Gary Oldman, Jonathan Pryce), […]
Dreamworks’ latest film The Bad Guys is based on a graphic novel by Aaron Blabey. This animated crime caper asks the question of whether stereotypes should dictate someone’s role in society. Mr. Wolf (Sam Rockwell) is the leader of the Bad Guys gang. After the governor, Diane Foxington (Zazie Beetz) makes a personal attack against the gang, Wolf […]
Ambulance is a film with a plot that can be summed up in one sentence: a couple of bank robbers hijack an ambulance after a robbery goes wrong. Michael Bay uses this concept for a smaller-scale film by his standards. Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is a veteran who’s desperate for money to pay for his […]
The 2010s saw the rise of elevated horror movies. These are horror films that have dramatic elements or a wider theme and have often been well-received by critics. Iris K. Shim has gone to this subgenre for her feature debut, Umma. Amanda (Sandra Oh) is a Korean American woman who lives on a farm with […]
A sign of a good episode (at least within a serialized drama) is that it answers some questions while creating more – and with those new questions, creating a desire to find the answers. While not a ton happened within “Watcher” (outside of meeting at least the physical representation of Picard’s Watcher – more on […]
The Catherine Tate Show was a sketch comedy show that propelled Catherine Tate into stardom in the 2000s. One of the most popular characters from the series was Joanie Taylor, AKA Nan, and she gets a cinematic adventure for British audiences. Joanie gets a letter from her sister, Nell (Katherine Parkinson) saying she’s dying and wants […]
X sees horror filmmaker Ti West and the acclaimed production company A24 team up for the ‘70s set slasher flick. In 1979, a small team of actors and a crew from Houston go to a farm to film a pornographic film. The team included Maxine Minx (Mia Goth), a cocaine-addicted porn star, and her producer boyfriend, […]
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is a prequel to the manga and anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. This prequel shows how Yuta Okkotsu joined Jujustu High and must face a great threat towards Japan. Yuta (Kayleigh McKee) is a 16-year-old who’s embedded with the spirit of his dead childhood girlfriend, Rika Orimoto (Anairis Quiñones). When Rika kills Yuta’s high school bully […]
Pachinko*, AppleTV+’s stunning adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s novel, is the next great television series from the emerging streaming network. Telling the story of three generations of a Korean family, the series jumps throughout the 20th century, taking viewers from Busan in 1931 up to 1989 Tokyo as we learn about the path that brought […]
So, here we are. Like so many Trek shows before it, in the past. Will Picard manage to escape the common time travel pitfalls? Will someone be faced with making a gut-wrenching choice to lose what or who they love so that they can protect the future (I’m willing to bet this is an almost […]