Ever since Game of Thrones ended, Hollywood’s biggest streamers and TV networks have worked hard to try and replicate its success. Studios like Netflix and Amazon have invested huge loads of money into high-profile fantasy […]
Alex Welch
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True crime is one of the most popular forms of storytelling there is right now. It’s also one of the most difficult to get right. After all, when a TV show or a movie is […]
Warner Bros. M. Night Shyamalan is one of the most divisive filmmakers of the past 30 years. After achieving breakout success in the late ’90s and early 2000s with acclaimed thrillers like The Sixth Sense, […]
There is something admirable and thrilling about a movie that has the confidence to tell you exactly what it is within its first few minutes. That’s a bigger gamble than you might think — a […]
It’s hard to genuinely surprise moviegoers these days. Many of them have seen too many movies. They know the ropes too well. That has especially become the case with certain horror genres. How does someone […]
Warner Bros. In terms of traumatic childhoods, few movie characters have ever had it as bad as Danny Torrance. The young psychic child at the center of The Shining is not only relentlessly preyed upon […]
It’s hard to tell what is a hit TV show and what isn’t these days. The absence of conventional TV ratings and the lack of anything even resembling a monoculture has made it impossible to […]
2024 hasn’t been a particularly memorable year for movies. Only a few truly great films have hit theaters over the past nine months, and a number of those movies, like Furiosa, haven’t had the kind […]