Netflix’s new cheaper plan that includes ads launched Thursday. With those ads, comes constraints: A swathe of shows and movies are locked behind licensing restrictions. Netflix hasn’t provided the complete list of unavailable shows and movies, but …
Bad Sisters sounds like it’s a sweary, boozy sitcom about sisters doing rebellious things.It is.It’s also a disturbing drama about abuse and murder, set in the moving postcard that is Dublin, Ireland.This unique hybrid of tones is the result of Appl…
If you’re after a show on Prime Video laden with intricate character work, detailed world-building and beautiful visuals, you probably won’t want to watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.Instead, consider starting a binge of Counterpa…
Knives Out 2 has scored rave reviews ahead of its Christmas release on Netflix, and its director is keeping the wildly entertaining comedy-mystery train going. Rian Johnson has a new comedy-mystery coming out, a 10-episode TV series titled Poke…
House of the Dragon has been deft at calling back to earlier episodes — and the season 1 finale, episode 10, was no exception. It featured a certain faded page torn from a large book, a callback to the very first episode. It’s so significant it alm…
Nowadays, seeing a show with the hype line “from the creators of Westworld” isn’t necessarily a call for excitement. The amount of homework required to follow Westworld in its convoluted latter seasons is plain silly. The good news: If you’re still …
Not for the first time, HBO’s House of the Dragon presented a perplexing character decision in need of further dissection. From Laena Velaryon’s suicide to foot fetishes, season 1 of the Game of Thrones prequel series is absorbing, to say the least….
Episode 8 of House of the Dragon introduced another jump forward in time — six years to be exact. Now, King Viserys seems to be the walking dead, Rhaenyra and Daemon are happily coupled and making babies, and Alicent and the Hightowers have made th…
Just like Mike Flanagan’s other horror shows, The Midnight Club is a multilayered ghost story laden with detail. Aside from Easter egg references to Flanagan’s previous works, the first season of the Netflix series uncoils an unpredictable mystery w…
The first time Mike Flanagan tried to adapt Christopher Pike’s young adult novel The Midnight Club, Pike’s publisher sent Flanagan a cease and desist letter. Now, after carving out a career of “prestige horror” offerings — from the critically accla…
It’s no secret that Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is an impeccable piece of cinema. Not only did it scoop the best picture Oscar in 2019, it catapulted viewers over the 1-inch subtitle barrier into a treasure trove of South Korean films.On …
Circumstances were looking pretty grim for Laenor Velaryon about 99% through episode 7 of House of the Dragon. But in a surprise twist, the husband of Rhaenyra Targaryen took a more fortunate path. The exact steps to this point weren’t totally clear…
Episode 6 of HBO’s House of the Dragon was shocking for a number of reasons. The Game of Thrones prequel episode ended with a fiery bang for one character. It was unexpected and not in a good way for some. Let’s discuss in the sp…
If you weren’t already excited for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, even more exciting news came out of the show’s UK premiere on Tuesday night. Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, aka a man who has no experience as a showrunner, said the actual showr…
Marvel really does seem to be gearing up to properly introduce the X-Men to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not only did the final episode of Ms. Marvel clearly introduce mutants, but the latest episode of She-Hulk, currently streaming on Disney Plus…