Comedy, Film, Mystery
Film – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Rian Johnson’s hit Knives Out was bound to be a tough trick to replicate, but Glass Onion: A Knives…
December 26, 2022-
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Comedy, Drama, Mystery, TelevisionTV: The White Lotus (Season 2)
Not many shows count as appointment television these days—especially for us card-carrying wait-for-it bingers—but HBO’s The White Lotus is…
December 18, 2022 -
Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Television, ThrillerTV: Better Call Saul (Season 6)
The task of successfully ending any beloved television series must surely be difficult enough. But when you’re Better Call…
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Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, TelevisionTV: The Resort (Season 1)
In an incredible year of television, it’s impossible not to notice the pattern: the shows that speak to my…
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Film, Mystery, ThrillerFilm: Unsane
Steven Soderbergh is always worth checking out, and while Unsane (2018) isn’t his most accomplished outing, it’s a classy,…
August 15, 2022 -
Fiction, Mystery, SpiesNovella: The List by Mick Herron
In between the major novels of the Slough House spy series, Mick Herron has also penned a handful of…
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Film, Mystery, ThrillerFilm: Blow Out
Brian De Palma’s early work often engenders a schizophrenic reaction in me, enticing with cagey genre content and cinephile…
August 7, 2022 -
Film, Horror, Mystery, ThrillerFilm: The Rental
Films don’t need to be huge and flashy to be effective, and The Rental (2020) is a slick little…
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Fiction, Mystery, Science FictionNovella: The Album of Dr. Moreau by Daryl Gregory
There are some writers who can gather disparate, seemingly incongruous influences and combine them unpredictably into something truly memorable.…
June 7, 2022 -
Drama, Mystery, Television, ThrillerTV: Ozark (Season 4)
The fourth and final season of Ozark was split into two seven-episode chunks, and it’s easy to see why…
May 8, 2022 -
Drama, Mystery, Television, ThrillerTV: The Valhalla Murders
It may be a disturbing psychological tell about me that the gloomy, grim content of Nordic noir feels like…
April 4, 2022 -
Comedy, Mystery, TelevisionTV: The Afterparty (Season 1)
Apple+’s The Afterparty joins a burgeoning, newish subgenre of mystery-comedies. Like the shows it resembles (The Flight Attendant and…
March 24, 2022 -
Film, MysteryFilm: Nightmare Alley
I wouldn’t list Guillermo del Toro amongst my favorite directors, but there’s no denying the careful craftsmanship and visual…
March 20, 2022 -
Film, Horror, MysteryFilm: The Privilege
Shotgunning contemporary horror and throwback conspiracy thriller tropes together, Germany’s The Privilege (2022) doesn’t make a ton of sense…
March 10, 2022 -
Drama, Film, MysteryFilm: Destroyer
If you haven’t heard the news, crime doesn’t pay. Okay, bit of a cheap shot there, but this is…
February 28, 2022