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fromVulture
5 days ago

It Would Be Crazy If Your Brain Doctor Wrote The Housemaid

Freida McFadden, a best-selling author, is actually Sara Cohen, a doctor who treats brain disorders.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

There's no shortage of terrifying technology': how AI became TV drama's new go-to villain

AI is portrayed as a powerful and dangerous tool in modern surveillance and military operations.
Books
fromwww.npr.org
4 days ago

Move over, Mr. Ripley. 'I Am Agatha' is a delightfully duplicitous debut

Agatha Smithson is an unreliable narrator exploring themes of artistic ambition and love between women in their 60s.
#film
Film
fromVulture
1 week ago

Alana Haim's Rachel Might Be the Secret Villain of The Drama

A wedding is jeopardized when the bride reveals a past school shooting incident, leading to tension and judgment among friends.
#true-crime
Podcast
fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 weeks ago

ABC takes true crime storytelling to new levels with 'Betrayal: Secrets and Lies'

The series 'Betrayal: Secrets and Lies' showcases true stories of deception, including paternity fraud and domestic abuse.
Podcast
fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 weeks ago

ABC takes true crime storytelling to new levels with 'Betrayal: Secrets and Lies'

The series 'Betrayal: Secrets and Lies' showcases true stories of deception, including paternity fraud and domestic abuse.
Film
fromInsideHook
1 week ago

"The Drama" Has No Idea How to Handle Its Controversial Twist

The Drama presents a romantic comedy that takes a dark turn with a shocking revelation about a character's past involvement in a school shooting plot.
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

'The Keeper' is a grand finale to Tana French's Cal Hooper crime series

The Keeper concludes the Cal Hooper series, emphasizing environmental themes and the darkness lurking beneath the surface of rural life in Ireland.
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Sure, They Will Kill You, But Can They Get On With It Already?

Realm of Satan captures members of the Church of Satan in droll tableaux, engaging in rituals or group sex, but often seen in mundane activities like beekeeping and hanging linens.
Independent films
fromAnOther
1 week ago

Night Stage: Anatomy of a Modern Erotic Thriller

The illicit thrill of hidden desires definitely propels Night Stage, a riveting queer noir about an up-and-coming actor Matias and an aspiring politician Rafael who begin hooking up in public spaces.
Film
Television
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

TV's Failing Cure For Middle-Aged Malaise

Imperfect Women exemplifies the decline of the 'messy-mom thriller' genre despite initial viewership success.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

The Sci-Fi Novelist Who Disappeared for Decades

Cameron Reed's science fiction explores cognitive estrangement, revealing alien worlds that reflect and challenge our own societal norms and moral dilemmas.
Independent films
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Just Released An Eerie Psychological Thriller Like No Other

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Chime explores modern terrors through a ringing sound that incites violence, reflecting societal issues and psychological pressures.
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Anki King's Nordic Noir

Anki King's work suggests an intimate engagement with New Image painting, particularly the later work of Susan Rothenberg, but she took it in a direction that is recognizably hers.
Arts
Film
fromMetro
1 week ago

The Drama criticised for 'sick' plot twist after misleading marketing

The marketing for The Drama misleads audiences about its serious themes, particularly regarding a shocking plot twist involving a school shooting.
Books
fromSlate Magazine
2 weeks ago

Netflix's New Crime Thriller Is So Deep in Sicko Territory It's Almost Funny

Norwegian author Jo Nesbø's adaptation of his Harry Hole novels struggles to translate complex narratives into a coherent screen format.
Film
fromVulture
1 week ago

The Twist in The Drama Is Not the Problem

The film features a controversial plot twist involving a character's past plan for a school shooting, sparking significant online speculation and backlash.
Books
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

Behind 'Project Hail Mary' And The Hard Sci-Fi Renaissance - And What's Next

Andy Weir's evolution as a sci-fi author reflects a blend of realism and personal growth in his characters and storytelling.
Television
fromBustle
4 weeks ago

Kerry Washington's New Thriller May Have A Shocking Twist

Apple TV's Imperfect Women follows three women navigating an affair and murder, exemplifying the 'good for her' genre where morally gray female characters make questionable choices in response to difficult circumstances.
#thriller
Film
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

Red Rooms makes online poker as thrilling as its serial killer

Red Rooms effectively combines realistic technology with expert tension building, creating an unpredictable thriller that keeps viewers engaged and questioning character motives.
fromBustle
2 months ago
Television

'Vanished' Starts Sweet, Then Drops You Into A Twist-Heavy Mystery You'll Devour

Film
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

Red Rooms makes online poker as thrilling as its serial killer

Red Rooms effectively combines realistic technology with expert tension building, creating an unpredictable thriller that keeps viewers engaged and questioning character motives.
fromBustle
2 months ago
Television

'Vanished' Starts Sweet, Then Drops You Into A Twist-Heavy Mystery You'll Devour

Writing
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Raymond Chandler and the Case of the Split Infinitive

Raymond Chandler clashed with The Atlantic's copy editor Margaret Mutch over her correction of a split infinitive, arguing that deliberate rule-breaking in language creates authentic, living prose.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

The best recent crime and thrillers review roundup

Killing Me Softly and Whidbey explore complex themes of trauma, morality, and systemic failures in healthcare and society.
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

'Scarpetta' is a captivating murder mystery and a high-wire balancing act

Scarpetta alternates between two timelines with different actresses portraying Kay Scarpetta, supported by strong ensemble performances from established television actors.
Books
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Author Luke Kennard talks about his novel, 'Black Bag'

Luke Kennard's novel 'Black Bag' fictionalizes a 1967 psychology experiment where a silent, bagged actor in a classroom gradually becomes liked by students through repeated exposure, exploring how familiarity transforms perception.
Television
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

Nicole Kidman's New Crime Show Is Surprisingly Captivating-and Goes Unexpected Places

Nicole Kidman stars as Kay Scarpetta in Amazon Prime's new series adaptation, blending family drama with forensic investigation as Kay confronts a murder matching a serial killer she caught 25 years ago.
London
fromCN Traveller
1 month ago

On Location: Young Sherlock takes us from a historic university city in England to Spain's Cadiz

Young Sherlock is a Guy Ritchie-directed Amazon Prime series exploring Sherlock Holmes' origin story at Oxford University, featuring Hero Fiennes Tiffin as the young detective.
Board games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Our Dark Lord Cthulhu Awakens In This Lovecraftian Adventure

The Dark Rites of Arkham is a point-and-click adventure game set in Lovecraft's fictional city of Arkham, where Detective Jack Foster investigates ritualistic murders linked to mystical cults and ancient gods.
fromInverse
4 weeks ago

25 Years Later, Christopher Nolan's First Great Noir Thriller Remains His Most Essential

Memento provides a Rosetta Stone to decode deeper meaning within his larger-scale efforts, offering a window into the complex paradoxes that add thematic weight to his intricately plotted stories. Nolan's films often jump from a familiar genre archetype. In Memento, Guy Pearce's Leonard Shelby recalls the weary antiheroes of film noir, but his filmography is full of familiar figures ranging from superheroes to great men of history.
Film
Books
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Patricia Cornwell on Crime and Creativity

Fear is the primary obstacle to creativity; overcoming it and persisting through rejection enables successful creative work.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The best recent crime and thrillers review roundup

Obnoxious jewellery dealer Rodney Manderson has been killed outside the Bowery auction rooms, stabbed through the eye with the Victorian hatpin that his boss, Rose Bowery, has brandished in front of the nation on Bargain Hunt. As she discussed the pin's virtues as a deadly weapon as well as its millinerial uses, the fiercely loyal Rilke decides while feeling grateful to have skipped lunch and trying not to think of jelly to remove it before calling the police.
LGBT
fromInverse
1 month ago

'Undertone' Is Scariest With What It Doesn't Show

The first thing you notice about undertone is how quiet it is; not just in its audio mix, but in how it's shot - primarily steady wide shots that slowly pan across empty rooms, allowing your eyes to frantically scan for something amiss. It's an understated form of filmmaking that allows for the movie's scares to hit all that much harder.
Film
fromVulture
2 months ago

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Finale Recap: In Which Points Are Made

Everything Bundle has accomplished is substantive and worthy of celebration, but in the course of learning who she can trust and foiling the theft of Dr. Matip's formula, she's lost Jimmy and Loraine, who represented her one remaining connection to Gerry. She's also been forced to reckon with the knowledge that although Lady Caterham loves her, she's never really seen Bundle and her gifts accurately. Worse still, Bundle realizes that she's never really been enough for her mother.
UK politics
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Here Are The Best Detective Games To Check Out

Industry layoffs and studio closures coincide with major game updates, gameplay impressions, character trailers, and recommendations including Steam Detective Fest deals and free PC games.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Value of True Crime

Evolutionary psychology explains true crime fascination as a survival mechanism for identifying threats, yet successful predators still evade detection through deception and social bonding.
Film
fromInsideHook
1 month ago

The Sensational 19th-Century Adaptation That's Not "Wuthering Heights"

The Count of Monte Cristo PBS adaptation is an exceptional book-to-screen adaptation featuring an Oscar-winning director and acclaimed actors bringing Alexandre Dumas's 1840s classic to thrilling life.
Gadgets
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

TR-49 review inventive narrative deduction game steeped in the strangest of wartime secrets

TR-49 is a mystery game where a machine consumes esoteric books, sending players to specific pages via codes to uncover the pivotal text Endpeace.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

A brutal and hilarious murder thriller from South Korea's master of shock review

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Pushing the Limits of Historical Fiction

Enrigue's 'penchant for shooting the facts of history through the prism of the absurd' makes him singular-but it also puts him firmly in a long literary tradition. The book 'distills a byzantine swirl of historical events through the lives of a handful of very colorful characters,' intertwining several real and invented incidents with major moments in the Apache Wars, a series of skirmishes involving Native Americans, the U.S., and Mexico across the Southwest borderlands.
Books
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Living In Gotham City Is Wild, According To New Arkham City Video

A modded Batman: Arkham Knight recreates daily life of a Gotham NPC, showing civilian encounters with Batman and varied reactions to superhero presence.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Monsters and madness and men, oh my! The Terror is the unsung treasure of peak television

Based on the bestselling book of the same name by Dan Simmons, it chronicles a doomed Royal Navy expedition dispatched to the Arctic in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. Under the leadership of Captains Sir John Franklin and Francis Crozier, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, manned with 129 crew, set sail from England in 1845. They became locked in pack ice off King William Island in the winter of 1846.
Television
#black-dahlia
Film
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

'Young Sherlock' Stars Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Joseph Fiennes Crack the Case on Big Spoilers and Real Chemistry

Hero Fiennes Tiffin stars in Prime Video's "Young Sherlock" opposite his uncle Joseph Fiennes, marking their first significant on-camera collaboration in a major project.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

I'm a crime writer. Here's why we make the best Traitors contestants

Crime fiction specialists' observational, empathetic, and deceptive-character skills make them natural contestants and formidable analysts on The Traitors.
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

'Crime 101' is an old-fashioned heist film that pays off

If there's anything I miss in pop culture, it's the presence of ordinary movies. I don't mean blockbusters like Avatar or cultural events like Barbenheimer or Oscar contenders like One Battle After Another. I'm talking about the routine, well-made entertainments that, for nearly a century, used to open in theaters every week. You'd go see them because the story sounded good or you liked the stars or you just wanted to enjoy something as part of an audience.
Arts
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The best recent crime and thrillers review roundup

Two contemporary novels probe suburban domesticity, revealing secrets, manipulation, and moral ambiguity through slow-burn suspense and darkly comic plotting.
Books
fromVulture
2 months ago

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Recap: Battle Commences

Jimmy and Bundle investigate linked deaths of Gerry and Ronnie, uncovering connections to "Seven Dials" while Bundle's bold detective actions drive the plot forward.
#agatha-christie
fromRoger Ebert
2 months ago
Television

"Agatha Christie's Seven Dials" Will Send Your Snooze Button Into Overdrive | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert

fromRoger Ebert
2 months ago
Television

"Agatha Christie's Seven Dials" Will Send Your Snooze Button Into Overdrive | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert

Books
fromEngadget
1 month ago

What to read this weekend: The unsettling new horror novel, Persona

A trans woman uncovers non-consensual pornography of herself and is drawn into escalating horrors involving identity, exploitation, internet influence, and economic precarity.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Hitchcock's The Lodger has been turned into a vertical microdrama. What's next Psycho on Snapchat?

Tattle TV reframes Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger as a vertically cropped, phone-first microdrama, altering original 4:3 compositions and raising preservation and aesthetics concerns.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Good People by Patmeena Sabit review addictive mystery caters to modern attention spans

A novel uses short testimonies to unravel a teenager's death while exposing immigrant family dynamics, communal gossip, wealth-driven envy, and cultural tensions.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Eternally spellbinding': the TV shows that baffle you but you can't get enough of

Catterick, Monkey Dust, The OA, and Mrs Davies deliver surreal, darkly comic, and increasingly bizarre narratives blending crime, dreamlike animation, sci‑fi, and oddball humor.
Film
fromVulture
2 months ago

Why Are So Many Movies About Kidnappings Right Now?

Contemporary hostage films use captivity to interrogate power imbalances, allowing marginalized figures to confront untouchable elites and reflect wider social anxieties.
Film
fromInverse
2 months ago

'Wuthering Heights' Is Not The Sicko Gothic Fantasy We Were Promised

Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights impresses visually but fails to deliver the provocative, scandalous reinterpretation many expected of the classic novel.
Television
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

'DTF St. Louis' Review: HBO's Stellar Suburban Murder-Mystery Is More Than Meets the Eye

Steven Conrad's 'DTF St. Louis' uses a murder-mystery framework to explore whether motive determines guilt and whether understanding why an event occurred is essential to knowing what happened.
Books
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Curing Zombies in "The Bone Temple"

Monsters evolve to mirror the cultural anxieties and ambitions of their eras, revealing societal fears about race, empire, mental health, and scientific cure.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

My Sister's Bones review drab adaptation doesn't deliver the dark punch of the bestselling novel

A drab psychological-thriller film fails to generate intrigue despite a strong cast, weak pacing, and an underpowered twist ending.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry review a dazzling puzzle-box of a debut

We are initiated into a world in which historically accurate foodstuffs can be ordered online a half oyster shell, the exposed flesh shining as if with the freshest brine, is 31.25 for a single piece and begin to understand one of the most striking things about this novel: its insistence upon detail, its utter specificity, set against a deliberate lack of specificity regarding the larger details that the reader's mind naturally itches to fill in.
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Television
fromCN Traveller
2 months ago

Where was Agatha Christie's Seven Dials filmed? Behind the scenes of the lavish Netflix murder mystery

Filming took place at Badminton House and across Bristol, including Barrel House and streets such as Queens Square, All Saints Street and Clare Street.
Books
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

PuzzleWatch: What the Dickens * Oregon ArtsWatch

Charles Dickens achieved lasting literary celebrity through prolific serialized novels, vivid characters, public lectures, and enduring popularity that keeps his works continuously in print.
Television
fromVulture
2 months ago

This Serial-Killer Thriller Looks So Kidmanian

Nicole Kidman headlines Scarpetta, a Prime Video detective series premiering March 11, playing retired medical examiner Kay Scarpetta returning for one final case.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Mother of Flies review horror in the woods as house guests are microdosed with psychedelics

A family-run indie collective produces striking, original low-budget horror that combines hands-on craft, familial themes, and inventive scare techniques.
Books
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

'Even the Dead' wraps up John Banville's smart, moody mystery series

Quirke mysteries combine noir darkness with literary prose, following a Dublin coroner confronting trauma, moral ambiguity, and hidden crimes in 1950s settings.
Film
fromInverse
2 months ago

'Dead Man's Wire' Proves Gus Van Sant Movies Still Matter

Dead Man's Wire is a taut, timely crime thriller and strong Gus Van Sant comeback dramatizing a 1977 three-day hostage standoff with crowd-pleasing energy.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Watson season two review a Sherlock Holmes spinoff full of naughty wit

Long before that, the biggest drama in the world was House, which was set in a hospital but featured a mercurial genius solving baffling mysteries once the House-Home-Holmes penny dropped, you knew you were watching Sherlock in disguise. Watson is the latest attempt by US network television to keep the Conan Doyle canon firing, and it's a straight cross between House and Elementary.
Television
#the-night-manager
fromIndependent
2 months ago
Television

Inside the explosive finale of 'The Night Manager' - shocking deaths, unanswered questions and what comes next

fromIndependent
2 months ago
Television

Inside the explosive finale of 'The Night Manager' - shocking deaths, unanswered questions and what comes next

Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

What did I just watch?' The TV shows that utterly baffle us but we can't switch off

The Chair Company revels in surreal, unanswerable absurdity, while Industry immerses viewers in impenetrable finance jargon and an exclusive, money-driven culture.
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