2024-04-14 11:24
Black Bear is a psychological drama written and directed by Lawrence Michael Levine. It stars Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott, and Sarah Gadon in prominent roles. The film follows Allison… Read More
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2024-04-04 14:48
Buster’s Mal Heart is a 2016 psychological drama written and directed by Sarah Adina Smith, starring Rami Malek as the leading actor. The story follows a night manager who is one day a… Read More
2024-03-05 08:19
Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam is a Tamil-Malayalam psychological drama with exceptional art value. It’s written and directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery, who also brought us crazy films like C… Read More
2024-02-10 08:19
The 2023 Palme d’Or winner, Anatomy Of A Fall, is a well-scripted French crime drama that follows the proceedings of a court case where a woman is tried for the murder o… Read More
2024-02-04 10:45
This spoiler-filled article outlines all the differences between the book and the movie Eileen. So make sure you’ve watched or read it before you continue on. For a detailed film analy… Read More
2024-01-18 14:05
Eileen is a 2023 crime drama directed by William Oldroyd and is based on a book by the same name. A lonesome girl begins her friendship with a new colleague at a juvenile prison facility and… Read More
2023-11-26 07:42
Midnight Special is a sci-fi drama directed by Jeff Nichols, depicting the pursuit of a boy with supernatural abilities by the government and a religious cult, unravelling mysteries of faith… Read More
2023-11-21 14:07
Piaffe is a French psychological drama directed by Ann Oren. The film is centred on Eva, a quiet person who takes over her sibling Zara’s job as a Foley artist when Zara has a breakdow… Read More
2023-11-08 06:21
Blue Ruin is a revenge crime drama written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier. The film has a great cast and is quite gripping as it reveals the past in chunks purely through dialogues –… Read More
2023-11-06 12:04
Season 2 of Loki is directed by Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead, who’ve brought us fantastic films like Resolution and The Endless. Season 2 picks up from where we le… Read More
2023-11-02 11:31
Talk To Me is a 2022 horror movie directed by the YouTube duo Danny and Michael Philippou. The film is centred on a mysterious hand sculpture which can conjure spirits. A group of… Read More
2023-10-29 12:08
The 2023 limited series Bodies starts well and keeps the momentum on through 6 episodes, but like many time travel movies and shows, it fumbles in the 3rd act and wraps things up clumsily, l… Read More
2023-10-28 10:16
The 2023 show Bodies has a convoluted family tree with Elias Mannix playing a central role. This family tree results from a Causal Loop, a paradox. Without time travel, such a family tree is… Read More
2023-10-27 05:29
Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead series is an undeniable outlier in horror franchises. This iconic series, known for its unique blend of gory horror and dark humor, has managed to captivate audie… Read More
2023-10-13 07:04
Looking for a short summary and recap of the entire season 1 of Loki? This article has everything you need to remember the story so far to jump right into season 2 of Loki. For a detailed an… Read More
2023-09-23 10:34
The Outfit is a 2022 crime drama debut by director Graham Moore. Graham wrote the story along with Johnathan McClain. This is a beautifully executed film that keeps you guessing. The plot is… Read More
2023-07-21 08:54
Infinity Pool is a 2023 sci-fi psychological thriller written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg, who also gave us Prossessor. If you haven’t seen that one, do check it out. In ca… Read More
2023-07-18 05:51
Doctor Sleep is a 2019 psychological horror sequel to the movie The Shining based on the book by the same name. The film is directed by Mike Flanagan, who’s brought us G… Read More
2023-07-14 08:27
The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror based on Stephen King’s book by the same name and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall in the leading r… Read More
2023-07-03 11:15
Nefarious is an independent 2023 Hollywood horror drama written and directed by Chuck Conzelmon and Cary Solomen. The movie focuses on the age-long rivalry between good and evil. It received… Read More
2023-06-13 17:45
Dual is a 2022 science-fiction dark-comedy written and directed by Riley Stearns and has Karen Gillan starring in the leading role. The film is set in a world where a dying person can c… Read More
2023-06-07 09:38
Over the decades, we have seen a variety of Spider-Man movies and TV shows, but each one seems to have a slightly different origin story, characters, and storylines. This is because each of… Read More
2023-05-25 12:23
White Noise is a 1985 novel by Don DeLillo, and Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of the novel narrates the same story as the source material. The film largely stays true to the dialogue of t… Read More
2023-05-09 12:42
Suzume is a 2022 Japanese Anime romantic fantasy written and directed by the amazing Makoto Shinkai, whose Your Name blew our minds. The movie follows a young girl who encounters a young man… Read More
2023-05-02 13:48
Smile is a 2022 horror movie written and directed by Parker Finn. The story follows a therapist who is haunted by visions of people smiling at her after she witnesses a girl commit suicide i… Read More
2023-04-15 14:56
M3GAN is a 2022 Sci-Fi Horror directed by Gerard Johnstone. The movie follows a roboticist who creates a life-like doll named M3GAN as a companion for a child. As the bot becomes increasingl… Read More
2023-04-07 13:40
Emily The Criminal is a 2022 crime drama directed by John Patton Ford. The film follows a young woman who turns to a life of fraud to support herself. However, her unlawful activities soon s… Read More
2023-03-23 22:35
The Visit is a 2015 horror thriller directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It follows two siblings who visit their estranged grandparents only to discover something is very wrong wit… Read More
2023-03-08 17:48
Barbarian is a 2022 horror thriller written and directed by Zach Cregger. The film is centred on a house where two people get double booked for a stay in a desolate neighbourh… Read More
2023-02-28 12:23
The Black Phone is a 2021 horror thriller (based on the short story) directed by Scott Derrickson who gave us The Exorcism of Emily Rose and even Doctor Strange. The plot centres around a yo… Read More
2023-02-22 08:28
Jung_E is a 2023 Korean action science-fiction film written and directed by Sang-ho Yeon, who also brought us the runaway hit, Train To Busan. In the leading roles, the cast has Kim Hyun-joo… Read More
2023-02-20 12:13
Simply put, You Should Have Left is a polarizing movie. Those who love it love it, while those who hate it passionately hate it. This is why the film itself has a ~5 rating on IMDB. Sti… Read More
2023-02-11 17:41
Thelma is a 2017 Norwegian supernatural psychological thriller directed by Joachim Trier and written by Eskil Vogt. The film follows the story of Thelma, a young woman who moves from her rur… Read More
2023-02-10 12:23
Being John Malkovich is, to this day, one of the strangest, most surreal movie experiences ever. It explores the concepts of manipulation, infidelity, and obsessive love, through the le… Read More
2023-02-08 03:16
Adaptation is a 2002 film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman that follows the story of a struggling screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman, trying to adapt a non-fiction book into… Read More
2023-02-07 08:02
The 2015 movie The Witch, also stylized The VVitch (with two Vs instead of W), is a folk horror made by Robert Eggers. This is his directorial debut, and he already… Read More
2023-02-06 12:41
Frequencies is a science fiction film exploring the concept of a world where people are assigned a specific frequency at birth. It is a low-budget independent film released in 2013. The movi… Read More
2023-01-30 12:39
Where The Crawdads Sing is a 2022 crime drama based on a book by the same name directed by Olivia Newman. The film revolves around a girl who grew up in the marsh alone and is accused of mur… Read More
2023-01-20 12:17
Loving Adults (Kærlighed for voksne) is a 2022 Danish crime drama directed by Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg based on a novel by the same Danish name. The story is centred… Read More
2023-01-17 12:05
The Pale Blue Eye: What it is about – it’s a film that follows a detective trying to solve a series of gruesome murders, one that starts off with a hung corpse with its heart cut… Read More
2023-01-09 12:21
The Menu is a 2022 thriller directed by Mark Mylod starring Ralph Fiennes in a menacing lead role. The film sees a group of ultra rich folks invited to a lavish multi-course meal in a restau… Read More
2023-01-06 08:44
They say that what we don’t know can’t hurt us, but where are you willing to draw the line of blissful ignorance for the sake of your happiness? Some questions are better le… Read More
2022-12-30 10:52
The Empty Man is a 2020 horror movie that revolves around the deeply philosophical abstract concept of manifesting one’s thoughts in a physical world. While the idea itself is quite fa… Read More
2022-12-28 14:07
God’s Crooked Lines (Los renglones torcidos de Dios) is a 2022 Spanish psychological crime drama directed by Oriol Paulo. The movie is based on the novel Torcuato Luca de Tena, and the… Read More
2022-12-22 15:54
Ultrasound is a 2022 science-fiction psychological-thriller directed by Rob Schroeder and written by Conor Stechschulte, who also wrote the graphic novel Generous Bosom which this film is ba… Read More
2022-12-05 12:40
Movies about the future always intrigue fans because they help notice today’s issues. Children of Men is a sci-fi thriller about infertility that leads to the extinction of babies on t… Read More
2022-12-01 05:46
Bullet Train is a 2022 action comedy (dark) directed by David Leitch. The film follows a contractor sent to steal a case of money from a bullet train, and chaos ensues. The film has a giant… Read More
2022-11-24 07:02
Blonde, a movie about Marilyn Monroe by director Andrew Dominik and starring Ana de Armas as Monroe herself, hit the screens earlier this year – but it is not necessarily what it seems… Read More
2022-11-23 10:13
Identity is a 2003 neo-noir psychological thriller with an immersive story, stellar cast, and incredible rewatchability value. The cult-classic mystery is loosely based on Agatha C… Read More
2022-11-18 14:49
I am Legend is a 2007 sci-fi thriller that tells the story of a military virologist trying to find a cure for a contagious virus that has turned people into vampire-like creatures. It’… Read More
2022-11-09 17:12
Possession is one of the most controversial and hardest-to-watch movies ever. The film is supposed to be an allegory of a divorce and was heavily inspired by Andrzej Żuławski… Read More
2022-11-09 11:51
Nightcrawler is a 2014 thriller written and directed by Dan Gilroy, who also gave us Velvet Buzzsaw. The film is centered on Lou Bloom (played by Jake Gyllenhaal), a desperate man who w… Read More
2022-10-26 11:34
The theme, ideas, and setting of As Above, So Below had immense potential. After all, what can go wrong when you put together Dante’s Inferno, the Paris Catacombs, and a… Read More
2022-10-21 10:26
A Serious Man (2009) is a dramatic comedy about Larry Gopnik. The man works at the university, where he became not just a teacher and essay writer but also a professor. Talking about science… Read More
2022-10-11 17:36
When talking about revolutionary horror stories with a unique concept and a disappointing string of sequels, one just cannot avoid talking about the science-fiction thriller Cube. It’s… Read More
2022-10-03 10:06
What would you get if The Matrix was a lot less Sci-Fi and a lot more noir? What if the agents looked like Pinhead from Hellraiser? What would be the result? Probably som… Read More
2022-09-28 13:31
Crimes Of The Future is a 2022 sci-fi drama written and directed by David Cronenberg. Set in a distant future, humans struggle with their changing bodies as multiple factions disagree on wha… Read More
2022-09-19 13:50
Big Mouth or 빅마우스 (Bigmauseu) in Korean is a south Korean thriller, a hardboiled crime drama starring Lee Jongsuk, Im Yoona, Kim Joohun & Yang kungwan. It&rsq&hell…Read More
2022-09-19 11:25
I Came By is a 2022 crime drama directed by Babak Anvari. It’s a familiar thriller done reasonably well but leaves a bunch of incomplete threads. Here’s the plot and ending of th… Read More
2022-09-16 09:04
Super 8 is a movie directed by J J Abrams and produced by Stephen Spielberg. Writing about it almost ten years later, it would be better to lead with the current favourite in this genre, Str… Read More
2022-09-06 11:08
What sets the drama There Will Be Blood (2007) apart from the rest of the industry is its incredible cinematography. The camerawork, scenery, and costumes are just perfect. The soundtra… Read More
2022-09-02 14:18
Not many movies out there have universal praise and artistic value as Stanly Kubrick’s crime sci-fi A Clockwork Orange. Based on the 1962 novel by the same name, it’s one of the… Read More
2022-09-01 18:37
The conjecture that one day AI will rise against humanity, take over, and enslave us has been circulating for a long time. We have movies like The Matrix to thank for that. The idea that rob… Read More
2022-09-01 14:07
The brilliant Darren Aronofsky‘s The Fountain is a masterpiece film in magical realism that has romance seeping from its every crevice. The movie is metaphorical and about love sp… Read More
2022-09-01 13:06
Return To Sender is a 2015 crime drama starring Rosamund Pike and Shiloh Fernandez. The plot revolves around a woman who is sexually assaulted and wants to face her assailant to get closure… Read More
2022-09-01 05:12
Nope is the third film directed by Jordan Peele after Get Out and Us and falls into the science fiction horror genre. The Nope cast has Daniel Kaluuya… Read More
2022-08-23 11:30
Historical films are challenging to make. It will quickly become a documentary if it is just an objective representation. If adapted too much, it may be criticized for not respecting history… Read More
2022-08-22 08:41
Zak Hilditch’s 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s novella 1992 is a psychological horror about crime and punishment. It delves deep into the effects of guilty… Read More
2022-08-17 08:55
The genre of sci-fi transports you to another world. Good science fiction movies have the right balance of surrealism and reality. When you watch these films, you experience transc… Read More
2022-08-08 11:39
The Lodge is a psychological thriller directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, who also brought us Goodnight Mommy. The movie is praised by critics and called a clever ne… Read More
2022-08-05 13:40
Men is a 2022 psychological drama written and directed by Alex Garland, who brought us films like Annihilation and Ex Machina. The film is centred on a woman on a 2-week… Read More
2022-08-04 12:18
There are not many movies out there that are so thought-provoking and open to interpretation as Robert Egger’s The Lighthouse. This tale about two lightkeepers left on a… Read More
2022-07-19 09:58
Umma is an American supernatural horror film released earlier this year. The meaning of the Korean word umma is ‘mother’. The movie stars Sandra Oh, who plays a single mother liv… Read More
2022-07-13 06:05
Underground is a 1995 movie made by an acclaimed director Emir Kusturica with a screenplay co-written by Dusan Kovacević. It won the Palme d’Or at the 1995 Cannes Film F… Read More
2022-07-07 08:42
Nineteen Eighty-Four mixed with futuristic elements, gun kata, and Matrix-esque aesthetics—Kurt Wimmer recreates an enthralling blend in his action-thriller Equilibrium, released in 20… Read More
2022-06-30 17:18
If you’ve had a chance to listen to the commentary track on The Usual Suspects DVD, you probably threw something across the room when the writer and director began discussing what real… Read More
2022-06-09 18:56
Everything Everywhere All At Once is a 2022 film written and directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. The film is centred on a woman struggling with her business and family who suddenly fi… Read More
2022-06-03 06:29
Body Brokers is a 2021 American crime thriller movie written and directed by John Swab. It stars Jack Kilmer, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jessica Rothe, Alice Englert, Pete… Read More
2022-05-27 19:06
Episode 6 of Season 3 of Love, Death and Robots is titled, Swarm. The plot is centred on two scientists studying an alien Swarm. When understanding becomes exploitation it starts a chain rea… Read More
2022-05-27 12:29
Hatching (Pahanhautoja) is a 2022 Finnish horror psychological thriller written and directed by Hanna Bergholm. This is her first full-length feature film. The story is centred on a fam… Read More
2022-05-25 17:36
Episode 9 of Season 3 of Love, Death and Robots is called Jibaro. The story follows a Siren smitten with a soldier who is unaffected by her deathly scream. The animation in this short is so… Read More
2022-05-09 05:47
The Incident (El Incidente) is a 2014 Spanish psychological thriller written and directed by Isaac Ezban, who also brought us Parallel. The plot has groups of people trap… Read More
2022-05-04 08:09
Bubble is a 2022 Japanese anime romantic fantasy film directed by Tetsurō Araki, who brought us many episodes of the anime series Death Note. The film is set in a dystopian Tokyo, which… Read More
2022-04-24 15:47
Filth is a 2013 psychological drama directed by Jon S. Baird. The plot follows a detective looking to get a promotion to become an inspector, and he uses every immoral way possible to try an… Read More
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2022-04-19 13:35
Trance is a 2013 psychological crime thriller directed by Danny Boyle. The film follows a group of men looking to steal a painting. But things don’t go as planned, and they end up taki… Read More
2022-04-18 09:07
Synchronicity is a 2015 science-fiction time-travel directed by Jacob Gentry. The film is centred on a man looking to convince his financer that his time machine works. But to avoi… Read More
2022-03-29 18:07
During its ten years of production, Mr. Nobody (2009), a romantic fantasy directed by Jaco Van Dormel, became the main hope of European auteur cinema, but this film made a mixed impression… Read More
2022-03-21 12:33
Tumbbad is a 2018 Hindi horror film directed by Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi and Adesh Prasad. The plot is centred on a man whose greed drives him to find a hidden treasure guarded by a cur… Read More
2022-03-16 07:57
Fresh Movie: Plot And Ending Explained In Short (Spoilers)
The 2022 movie Fresh is centred on Noa, a young woman tired of men treating her like a piece of meat. Along comes Prince Charming… Read More
2022-03-12 14:17
The Adam Project is a 2022 time-travel action film directed by Shawn Levy. The story is centred on a man who travels back in time and accidentally lands in the wrong year and runs into his y… Read More
2022-03-04 13:01
The Door Into Summer is a 2021 Japanese romantic science-fiction directed by Takahiro Miki. The plot follows an inventor who is tricked by his girlfriend and business partner to fi… Read More
2022-02-25 12:37
Night Watch (2004) might be described in various ways, but “conventional” and “dreary” are not one of them. Instead, the picture has the dual merits of being daring a… Read More
2022-02-14 11:36
American Psycho is a psychological crime thriller that is a true polymorphism of the cinematic genre, in other words: it can take many forms that become apparent only with close viewing. The… Read More
2022-01-30 14:47
Are you a Matrix fan and have watched the latest instalment, The Matrix: Resurrections? But it turns out you are also a sense8 lover, then you have hit the jackpot. Lana Wachowski brings her… Read More
2022-01-28 16:59
Censor is a 2021 psychological thriller written and directed by Prano Bailey-Bond, and this is her first full-length feature film. The movie is set in the 80s and follows a censor… Read More
2022-01-22 12:53
The Power Of The Dog is a 2021 drama set in the ol’ west directed by Jane Campion. The story is centred on two brothers who own a ranch. One of them weds a widow with an intelligent ye… Read More
2022-01-18 13:48
Shirley is a 2020 drama directed by Josephine Decker. The movie is based on the writer Shirley Jackson in the time she was working on her book Hangsaman. Elisabeth Moss simply stea… Read More
2022-01-18 03:18
Titane is a 2021 psychological-thriller drama directed by Julia Ducournau. The plot follows a girl who suffers a head injury and has a titanium plate inserted into her skull. Following this… Read More
2022-01-02 08:18
Churuli is a Malayalam psychological-thriller horror directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery and written by Vinoy Thomas. The film is centred on two undercover cops who head to a vil… Read More
2021-12-22 15:29
The Matrix: Resurrections is the fourth part in the series and sees Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reprise their epic roles as Neo and Trinity. The film is set many years after the events… Read More
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