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Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story gives Emma Borden a difficult position inside the Borden family. Played by Billie Lourd, Emma spends much of the season protecting her younger sister Lizzie, even as questions about what happened inside their Fall River home refuse to disappear. By the finale, however, that loyalty has reached its limit.…
Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story offers a dramatic answer to a question that history has never definitively resolved. Andrew Borden and his second wife, Abby Borden, were found dead inside their Fall River, Massachusetts, home on August 4, 1892. Andrew’s daughter Lizzie soon became the focus of the investigation and later stood trial, but…
Andréa Martel’s first film is already carrying enough pressure before one phone call threatens to bring the entire production down. With shooting only days away, Laurent Lafitte suddenly abandons the project for another movie, leaving Andréa without the star around whom much of her production has been built. It is exactly the type of crisis…
Roselyn arrives in ‘Why Did I Get Married Again?’ carrying a relationship secret almost as uncomfortable as anything surrounding the bride and groom. She is dating Nick, a 27-year-old student who once tutored her son Wesley in middle school, and the two remain together by the end of the movie. Roselyn initially tries to keep…
Dan Stevens’ Dr. Hans Kammler is one of the strangest figures in Onslaught, but his name carries considerably more weight than the movie initially lets on. Yes, Kammler is based on a real person, although Stevens is not simply portraying the historical Nazi officer. The real Hans Kammler was a senior SS official deeply involved…
One of The Runner‘s most important revelations comes when Maia Marten tells the Caller that the story he knows about her childhood is incomplete. Throughout the film, the accepted version is that Maia’s mother went to prison after killing Maia’s abusive father. Near the climax, Maia claims the opposite: she says she was actually the…
Damian Lewis’ villain in The Runner never receives a conventional name. He is identified simply as the Caller, an experienced operative hired in connection with Boyd’s criminal case to eliminate Tafa before the protected witness can testify. Noah’s kidnapping is not driven by a personal grudge against Maia or her family. The Caller abducts him…
Grace’s strange feeling that somebody is missing from her suburban home turns out to be one of Buddy’s most important clues. Yes, Grace is Freddy’s biological mother, and Freddy is the daughter who vanished from the family’s life after being pulled into the world of It’s Buddy! The disturbing part is that Grace did not…
One of the easiest details to miss in The Whisper Man comes during Pete Willis’ prison meeting with Frank Carter. When Pete prepares to leave, Frank suddenly asks whether he wants to hear about the “sixth victim.” Pete assumes he means Tony Smith, only for Frank to correct him: Tony was victim number five. So…
Netflix’s The Whisper Man spends much of its story making viewers wonder whether Jake Kennedy’s imaginary friend is simply a product of his grief or evidence that something genuinely supernatural is happening around him. The mysterious child is known only as the girl in the blue sweater, and she appears to know things Jake seemingly…
Wile E. Coyote spends “Coyote vs. Acme” at the center of a courtroom case without ever delivering the kind of spoken testimony audiences might expect from the plaintiff. That silence is intentional. Director Dave Green and screenwriter Samy Burch considered a version of the film in which Wile E. spoke, but the filmmakers decided that…
The biggest twist in The Last Sunrise does not concern Ry’s health. It concerns her mother. When Oriah “Ry” Pera accompanies Isolde to Mallorca, she initially understands the trip primarily as another business assignment for her relentlessly career-focused mother. Isolde’s company, Redwyn, plans an expensive development on the island and needs control of property connected…
