Peacock’s second season of Dr. Death features the medical misdeeds of the Swiss-Italian doctor Paolo Macchiarini (Edgar Ramirez). Macchiarini, an internationally famous surgeon at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, has created a miracle: a stem-cell-soaked, 3D-printed trachea that can be implanted and magically become one with the patient. Benita Alexander (Mandy Moore), a journalist at […]
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The Goldfinger follows the rise and fall of Henry Ching (Tony Leung), who started as an immigrant moving to Hong Kong to find work and became the head of a large corporation in the 1970s and 1980s. When Ching cannot find work as an engineer, a property developer employs him to pose as an affluent
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Bodies is a new limited series now available to stream on Netflix. Based on a graphic novel of the same name, the mind-bending, time-travel thriller brings a refreshingly new and interesting take to the detective crime genre. The 8-episode series opens in London in 2023 with DS Shahara Hasan (Amaka Okafor), as she heads to
A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh’s third instalment in his Hercule Poirot series, this time replacing the glamour and grandeur of the earlier two films with a darker, more gothic feel that makes this the best instalment so far. The film follows Branagh’s Detective Poirot, who has now retired and is living a solitary
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Forced underground following the events of the third film, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) plans his revenge against the High Table. In return, a newly introduced member of the High Table, Marquis Vincent de Gramont (Bill Skarsgård), is given full reign to do whatever is necessary to bring down Wick and his first stop is to
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Luther: The Fallen Sun sees the return of the disgraced detective, this time in a Netflix-made feature film. Coming 4 years after the end of the fifth series, which wrapped things up rather neatly, it was a surprise to see Luther making a comeback. And to be frank, he should’ve stayed in prison. The film
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Set in late 1930s Los Angeles, private detective Philip Marlowe (Liam Neeson) is hired to find the ex-lover of heiress Clare Cavendish (Diane Kruger), named Nico Peterson (Francois Arnaud). While on the job, Marlowe is pulled into a web of lies involving Clare’s mother, screen actress Dorothy Quincannon (Jessica Lange), club manager Floyd Hanson (Danny
For me, the trailer for Violent Night has got to be one of the best of the year. Presenting us with a Die Hard style story, featuring David Harbour as Santa Claus having to take out a bunch of bad guys in gloriously violent fashion on Christmas night, it just had me jumping for joy.
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Wednesday is an eight-part series which focuses on The Addams Family daughter as she moves away to attend a boarding school for the gifted. Created and written by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar, the series is also directed and executive produced by Tim Burton, so you’ll have a pretty good idea upfront of what to expect from the style and tone of the show.
Park Chan-wook’s neo-noir romance, Decision to Leave, follows Busan Detective Hae-jun (Park Hae-il) as he investigates the possible murder of an elderly climber. Hae-jun suspects that the widow, Seo-rae (Tang Wei) was involved. However, he falls for Seo-rae, which complicates and compromises the investigation. After finding out the truth behind the murder, he leaves Busan
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Orphan: First Kill is the prequel to the 2009 horror Orphan, seeing the return of the murderous Esther 13 years after the original film. The film opens in Estonia and Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), real name Leena, is imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital two years before the events of the first film. She’s violent and desperate
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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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This is a spoiler-free review for episodes 1 to 5 of season 3. Season 2 of The Boys did a fantastic job of tying up multiple plot threads in both an entertaining and satisfying way, while still managing to set up and tease some exciting new ones for season 3. With Stormfront left badly burned
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a brilliantly titled film starring Nicolas Cage as… Nic Cage. Bringing an entirely new take to meta filmmaking, it’s possibly the most absurd film you’ll see all year. The problem is that instead of sticking to full-blown meta comedy, this tries to bring in an actual plot full
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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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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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