My Best Friend/My Self (Series Review: “My Brilliant Friend”)

The story of two young girls growing up in a violent and impoverished post-war Neapolitan neighborhood in the 1950s . . . A masterful film adaptation of a literary masterpiece. Continue Reading →

Mommie Dearest Must Die (Series Review: “Ordeal by Innocence”)

For anyone who thinks they’ve got the most dysfunctional family on the planet, here’s an Agatha Christie murder mystery that will send you shrieking to therapy. Welcome home! Continue Reading →

Not in Our Village (Series Review: “Broadchurch, Season 1”)

A captivating portrait of a sleepy British town whose close-knit neighbors are devastated when a nice boy from a good family shows up dead, and soon old friends are scrutinized as possible murderers. Continue Reading →

The Myth of Keeping Your Children Safe (Series Review: “Safe”)

A suspenseful 8-episode British thriller about a bereaved widower whose teenage daughter goes missing. Suddenly everyone’s a suspect in his upscale gated community where no one’s who they seem to be. Continue Reading →

Oh Brother Where Art Thou? (Series Review: “The Five”)

A missing boy presumed dead for 20 years shows up at a murder scene – his DNA, that is – setting in motion a jigsaw puzzle of clues and the reunion of childhood friends whose lives were derailed by the mystery. You’ll be taking notes to navigate this intricate 10-part British crime thriller. Continue Reading →

A Better Life on this Scepter’d Isle (Series Review: “Collateral”)

Carey Mulligan shines in a new, limited British crime series in which the cold-blooded murder of a Syrian pizza delivery man is only the first piece of a wider, more sinister plot which unfolds against a backdrop of political intrigue and anti-immigration anxiety. Continue Reading →

A Dish Best Served Cold (Series Review: “The Frozen Dead”)

A gruesome discovery on a snowy peak in the French Pyrenees draws a homicide detective home to face his archnemesis, an imprisoned serial killer at the center of an sweeping avalanche of grisly revenge killings. Continue Reading →