Last Night in Soho

Fashion student Ellie Turner (Thomasin McKenzie) moves to London and begins having strange, realistic dreams that transport her back to the Swinging Sixties. Edgar Wright pulls you into the charm…

Death on the Nile

In 1937, Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) finds himself on a steamer on the Nile, trying to figure out whom among the passengers is a murderer. Branagh donned the elaborate Poirot…

Dexter: New Blood

When Dexter ended its seven-year run, critics and audiences were far from happy, so this limited series was a second chance to get things right. Reconnecting with the last scene…

The Unlikely Murderer

On a late winter evening in 1986, a graphic designer (Robert Gustafsson) becomes the unlikely murderer of Sweden’s Prime Minister. What was initially presented in 2020 by the prosecutor in…

Blue Velvet: Quite an Earful

Kyle MacLachlan and Isabella Rossellini. Photo: De Laurentiis Entertainment Group In his annual movie guide, Leonard Maltin expresses amazement at how Blue Velvet was a critically lauded film. Roger Ebert wrote about…

El Camino 

The long-awaited movie sequel to Breaking Bad (2008-2013) picks up where the show ended, with Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) on the run from the police, getting in touch with old…

Joker: Birth of a Clown Prince

Joaquin Phoenix. Photo: Warner As it is about to premiere, Joker has become a controversial film. For the Twitter crowd, director Todd Phillips’s explanation why he decided to make the…

The Girl in the Spider’s Web 

Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) is hired to get her hands on a computer program built to access the world’s nuclear codes. Seven years after The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo…

The Dying Detective 

Lars Martin Johansson (Rolf Lassgård) has retired, but after surviving a stroke he needs rehabilitation and turns his attention to a cold case, the murder of a girl. The third…

M: Terror in Berlin

Peter Lorre. Photo: Nero-Film AG After announcing that his next movie would be a story about a child murderer, acclaimed filmmaker Fritz Lang was informed that he wouldn’t get to…