Month: August 2022

August 2022 was a big month for streaming. Fans of Game of Thrones were delighted with the release of the prequel series, House of the Dragon, on HBO Max. Netflix’s…

Agreat number of prequels have risen and died in the three years since Game of Thrones came to an uneasy conclusion, but one has survived the long night of HBO…

It’s probably unfair of me to be put off The Offer (Paramount+), about the making of The Godfather, by the memories of all those lads you meet in your late…

In a shocking abrogation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — at least as it pertains to film critics — a mere 114 days has elapsed between Barbara Białowas…

Bad Sisters (Apple TV+) is an adaptation of The Out-Laws – the Belgian series by Malin-Sarah Gozin, which was described by this here very organ as “the blackest comedy ever”.…

Art imitates life — no matter how lightweight or casual the art may be — as creators draw upon the world around them to tell their stories. Pop culture thus…

The Gist: It’s 2024, and as Saara Parvin (Hannah Khalique-Brown) is shown opening manhole covers, climbing down a brick wall, going into a locked cabana, etc., the scene always seems…

Echoes, a Netflix limited series about deceptive identical twins, might have worked on paper. It has the elements of an intriguing thriller: two inscrutable sisters, both played by Mission: Impossible’s…

Morals are behaviors society judges. Ethics are behaviors that your conscience judges.” And with that bit of philosophy, we meet Fernando Araujo, “The Artist,” who conceived of, planned, and executed…

After almost 30 years the adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s most famous comic series ‘The Sandman’ has been created to make it on the screens of people through Netflix. The story…