It's 1950s in London's West End, and the uber-popular stage show of Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" has reached a milestone with its 100th performance. Caddish American director Leo Kopernick (Adrie…
Season Two of The Alienist (subtitled Angel of Darkness) focuses on a series of missing infants, snatched right from their own crib, or from their baby buggy in full daylight. Our trusty trio of sleut…
What do you get when you throw a slew of famous faces into a comedic murder-mystery movie written and directed by Rian Johnson? The trailers and promotional pull quotes would have you believe it’s a z…
In addition to helming the film, Branagh stars as renowned detective Hercule Poirot, whose investigative skills are rivaled only by his OCD. Remaining very faithful to the source material, the 1930s-s…
As a single man with few responsibilities, Harry Hooperman is accustomed to living life on his own terms. He goes to work and plays his sax, but he can pop downstairs to his landlord's apartment whene…
Merely an episode into The Tunnel, I was thinking there was very much a Scandinavian noir feeling to this British/French television series. My instinct was correct when I found out it was an adaptatio…
Set in Los Angeles in 1977, The Nice Guys finds private eye Holland March and hired heavy Jackson Healy crossing paths in search of a missing girl, Amelia (Margaret Qualley). They soon realize their s…
With the dim Arctic light, the ever-present snow, and the need to carry a gun outside at all times (polar bears!), the remote island-settlement of Fortitude is a place that takes, well, fortitude to l…
Joaquin Phoenix, with his weirdo-chameleon persona in the media (remember when he grew a beard and said he was quitting acting to become a rapper?), is, at the very least, always interesting. When you…
The only thing I've ever heard anyone say about Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot is, "That movie is SO stupid." For fifteen years I've taken this as a negative comment, only to find that people are stopping…
As someone who never watched a single episode of Veronica Mars, I couldn't help wondering what all the fuss was about. How did it develop such an intense following and what's with this fervent devotio…
If you looks at any newspaper from the early 1900s, its advertising content is surprisingly similar to today's. There have always been cure-all elixirs to fix all of your ailments. Just like today, it…
