8 Best Releases From BBC One Network

Everyone has a secret or two. They’re usually fairly innocuous. A crush you’d never admit to, drinking the last cup of coffee and not making more, that time you ate candy from the display when you worked retail and didn’t pay for it. Most people’s secrets would never hurt a soul.   Continue Reading →

Unbreakable is as of its time as a movie can be. Released in 2000, when comic movies were in the public consciousness enough to justify committing a big budget and stars, but not so successful that they felt impersonal or routine. It was M. Night Shyamalan's fourth movie and, in a way, his second. After Praying with Anger (which never left the festival circuit) and Wide Awake failed to make much of a critical or box office impression, The Sixth Sense tapped the underserved audience for austere, adult sci-fi/fantasy thrillers to the tune of nearly seven hundred million dollars and six Oscar nominations. Continue Reading →

The newly restored Jigsaw & Dementia are equally stylish, but the superior Dementia places its victim at the forefront KinoKultur is a thematic exploration of the queer, camp, weird, and radical releases Kino Lorber has to offer. Recently restored by Cohen Media Group and Kino Lorber, two mid-century British “noirs” attempt to hold a magnifying glass to the precarious position of women in society. Yet, whereas Jigsaw (1960) is a fairly standard detective drama that rarely succeeds in giving justice to its central victim, Dementia (1955) is an experimental psychodrama that offers a more evocative experience. Continue Reading →

Some of the best thrillers have to do with the home. Night House, The Invisible Man, and series like Haunting of Bly Manor and American Horror Story tap into that vein of particular terror that comes with having your safety, your shelter violated. It quite literally hits you where you live. Continue Reading →

[Editor's Note: A prior version of this review contained inaccuracies about the film's characters/content and otherwise did not need the editorial standards of the site. After further consideration, and justifiable feedback from readers, the editorial team at The Spool have chosen to retract this review. We deeply regret the error, and apologize to anyone affected.] Continue Reading →

On Christmas Day in 1831, tens of thousands of slaves in Jamaica rebelled against their masters, burning acres and acres of sugar cane. By the end of the first week of January, the rebellion had been brutally quashed by Britain. But from that point on, it was clear that the days of slavery in the colonies were coming to an end. In 1833, that’s exactly what happened. The Long Song tells the story of July (Tamara Lawrance), a slave woman who lives through this transitory period as the primary maid to Caroline Mortimer (Hayley Atwell), the mistress of the plantation. The series frames these events through the narration of an older and wiser July (Doña Croll), decades after the events of we're witness to. Continue Reading →

A Perfect Planet Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JIs6xEYniM&ab_channel=discoveryplus Continue Reading →

Amazon's adaptation of the Agatha Christie mystery keeps the author's innate spirit for intrigue. The dreary insistence of death permeates every fiber of The Pale Horse, a new mystery miniseries from BBC arriving on Amazon Prime Video this Friday the 13th, if you dare. Composed of just two hour-long episodes, The Pale Horse is a loose adaptation of the 1961 detective novel by Agatha Christie, one of her final works. To adapt the story’s complex web of intriguingly dark characters, Sarah Phelps (EastEnders) innovates the material through clever addition and subtraction, while maintaining the harrowing spirit of Christie’s pen. Set in 1960s London, The Pale Horse follows the stoic Mark Easterbrook (Rufus Sewell), a rich antique dealer whose wife Delphine (Georgina Campbell) tragically died a year prior. Though she haunts Mark at seemingly every moment he’s not awake, the aging socialite has already taken in a new young wife, Hermia (Kaya Scodelario), who appears to have a more violent temperament hidden beneath her cold, pristine exterior.  It’s not long before a string of coincidental deaths and unexplainable occurrences begin to take shape all around Easterbrook. The woman he’s been cheating with dies mysteriously and suddenly in her sleep and the seemingly unrelated death of a shopkeeper turns up a list in her possession with his name on it. Bewildered by the stink of death all over him and now his world of friends and acquaintances, Easterbrook sets out on a personal investigation to discover what’s really happening, all while being hounded by the unrelenting Inspector Lejeune (Sean Pertwee). Continue Reading →