The director’s name is a guarantee—Stephen Frears is no ordinary filmmaker. We are dealing with a truly successful miniseries. A Very English Scandal.
What they did in the ending of Sharp Objects s a masterstroke—it leaves the viewer with mouth agape even if one has previously read Flynn’s novel.
So many things went wrong with Castle, though it could have been so much better, but I keep returning to this one, I still feel sentimental...
Seven Seconds tries to neutrally capture the essence of an issue that moves millions of Americans. The catch is, the pressure was (probably) too much.
The Break / La trêve is a surprisingly gripping, multi-layered crime story. It didn’t make much of a splash, and that’s a shame. A must-watch!
The End of the F***ing World has no regard for categories – it transitions between motifs known from teen comedies and gory visions of a would-be...
The Borgias looks stunning. Every shot is carefully composed, ready to print and hang on a wall, with every other frame clearly inspired by classical painting.
We’ve got plenty of shows set in police environments – some of them excellent – but very few resemble The Killing. You can completely sink into...
Fortunately, the series avoids a simplistic anti-clerical tone. The Keepers is seven hours of truly powerful, devastating, and deeply unsettling cinema.
By the late 1980s, America experienced a true “vice-mania,” pushing people to cancel their evening plans just to stay home and watch Miami Vice.