In the world of the South Korean film Alienoid, alien criminals are imprisoned inside humans. Guard (Kim Woo-bin), a cyborg on present-day Earth, manages these prisoners and travels through time with Thunder, a fellow robot. When Guard travels to 14th century Korea to arrest an alien who broke out of its human jail, Thunder brings […]
Based on the Japanese novel Mariah Beetle by Kotaro Isaka, action-comedy Bullet Train features a wide cast of characters, primarily assassins, seeking a case, or something related to said case, all while on a bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto. We’ve got Ladybug (Brad Pitt), who seems to be followed by bad luck. Thomas the
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The Duke focuses on the strange case of the stolen Duke of Wellington portrait from the National Gallery in London. In August 1961, the painting was bought using taxpayer funds and placed on display. Nineteen days later, Kempton Brunton (Jim Broadbent) sneaks into the Gallery through a tiny bathroom window and lifts the painting. Brunton
Picking up ten years after Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan, now known as Ben, is a broken man, haunted by Anakin’s turn to the dark side. After Leia is kidnapped, Obi-Wan sets out to rescue her; unaware that the kidnapping is a ploy to lure him out of hiding. He is relentlessly pursued by the
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HBO Max’s The Staircase dramatizes the events of the strange Kathleen Peterson murder. After Kathy (Toni Collette) mysteriously falls and dies at the bottom of the staircase in her home, law enforcement questions whether it was an accident or murder and Kathleen’s husband, Michael (Colin Firth), becomes the only suspect before being charged with murder.
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Over the last few months, viewers have been bombarded by a deluge of miniseries based on true stories. Most of these shows have already been covered by popular documentaries or podcasts, so there’s already a built-in audience for them, and I am one-hundred percent the target demographic for these shows. Here’s a rundown of some
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HBO Max’s Tokyo Vice focuses on American reporter Jack Adelstein’s (Ansel Elgort) time in Tokyo reporting on crime in the 1990s. Adelstein is employed by the largest newspapers in Japan and is making a mess of it. As the only gaijin (foreigner) at the paper, he is desperate to prove himself to the newspaper and
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Everything Everywhere All at Once follows Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) through the chaotic multiverse of what-ifs on her quest to save the world. Evelyn’s life is falling apart. She and her husband, Waymond (Ke Huy Quan), are on the brink of divorce and their laundromat is failing and being audited by the IRS. Her disapproving
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The Northman follows Amleth (Alexander Skarsgard) on his bloody quest for revenge against his uncle, Fjolnir (Claes Bang). As a child, Amleth witnessed the murder of his father, King Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke), by Fjoinir’s hand, narrowly escaping being murdered himself and vowing to avenge his father and save his mother, Queen Gudrun (Nicole Kidman). The
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Desperate for a cure for his unnamed blood disease, renowned biochemist Dr Michael Morbius (Jared Leto), captures vampire bats from a cave in Costa Rica in order to use their DNA for a cure. As a child, Morbius received treatment for his disease in Greece, where he met his surrogate father, Dr Emil Nicholas (Jared
The Lost City centres around successful romance novelist Loretta (Sandra Bullock). Still grieving the loss of her archaeologist husband, she forces herself to write one more book in her popular romance-adventure series using research that she and her husband completed together, and calls it The Lost City of D. After the release, Loretta agrees to
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Based on Gege Akutami’s four-chapter prequel, Jujutsu Kaisen (JJK) 0 introduces a crucial character, Yuta Okkotsu, to the overall JJK story. Yuta is haunted by his childhood friend, Rika, who died after being hit by a car. Rika becomes a powerful, special grade curse that appears whenever Yuta is bullied and after four bullies are
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The Outfit tells the story of one night in a 1950s Chicago tailor shop owned by an expert tailor, Leonard (Mark Rylance). Leonard’s shop holds a mysterious dropbox filled throughout the day with envelopes and two young mobsters, Richie (Dylan O’Brien) and Francis (Johnny Flynn), collect the contents in the evenings. Envelopes appear with a
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Drive My Car expands upon Haruki Murakami’s short story, Men Without Women. The film follows the stage actor and director, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) following the sudden death of his wife, Oto (Reika Kirishima) and the film’s opening covers the last few months of their relationship. During this time, Kafuku rehearses for a stage production
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The Book of Boba Fett begins immediately following the events of the second season of the Mandalorian. Boba (Temuera Morrison), accompanied by Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen), kills Bib Fortuna and takes over Jabba the Hutt’s palace. Boba claims the title of Daimyo with the intention of ruling Jabba’s territories as a benevolent leader. As expected,
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Netflix’s Inventing Anna attempts to tell the story of the Soho Grifter, Anna Delvey. Anna Delvey, AKA Sorokin (Julia Garner), portrayed herself as a wealthy German Heiress and wormed her way into New York high society, stealing along the way. The series is mainly from the perspective of a disgraced journalist, Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky),
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