Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Ending Explained — Why Death Walks Away

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 Death walks away because Puss has stopped treating his life as disposable. The wolf survives their final fight, recognizes the change in his opponent, and ends the pursuit. Puss gets to keep living, with one life left. He has neither killed Death nor won his missing lives back. That distinction, supported by the ending accounts … Read more

Jo Koy’s Blue in the Face Chose Stockton for a Reason

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  Jo Koy’s new Netflix special is called Blue in the Face, and the obvious material is right there in the official description: a dental disaster, a McDonald’s firing, and stories about his veteran stepdad. Those are the bits Netflix is selling. The more revealing choice may be where he recorded the hour. This is … Read more

Crew Girl Is No. 1 on Netflix. Rowing Is Only the Hook

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  Crew Girl is the No. 1 TV show on Netflix in the United States right now, five days after it arrived. That is a better reason to look at it than to pretend a show about prep-school rowing has suddenly made America curious about regattas. Netflix has put out all eight episodes at once. … Read more

Why Did I Get Married Again? Review — The Kids Finally Get a Say

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  The first two Why Did I Get Married? movies were about couples trying to clean up trouble they had made for themselves. The third movie has a more interesting reason to bring this group back: their children are adults now. A wedding in Lake Como puts the people who grew up around Marcus, Angela, … Read more

Is Untold Mr. T Worth Watching? Mr. T Calls It Garbage. He Is Half Right.

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  Mr. T’s pastor sat for two days of interviews. About thirty seconds of that ended up in the finished film. That number comes from Mr. T. He was telling reporters it was garbage before it had even come out. Untold Mr. T: I Pity The Fool arrived on September 8, runs forty-eight minutes, and … Read more

Those Who Wish Me Dead Is a Netflix Hit. It Is Also the Last Film Taylor Sheridan Directed.

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  I keep going back to one number on this movie. Not the Netflix chart, where Those Who Wish Me Dead has now spent sixteen days and sits at number two on the American film side. The other one. When Warner Bros. put it in 3,188 theaters in May 2021, it took $880,000 on its … Read more

The Perfect Lie Season 2: Why Netflix’s Dutch Hit Ends Without an Answer

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  So does anybody actually get an answer at the end of The Perfect Lie? No. The seventh episode stops in the middle of the thing you most want explained, and if you went in expecting a tidy Dutch murder mystery, that is going to sting. Netflix has not announced a second season. The show … Read more

Amazon Leaked Mutiny Two Days Early. Now It’s the Number One Thing People Are Buying There.

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  “I’m watching Jason Statham’s new movie Mutiny, streaming on Amazon for free right now. This has to be a huge mistake, right? My theater has showtimes starting this week!” It was a mistake. On August 19, two days before Mutiny opened in American theaters, Amazon posted the entire ninety five minute film to the … Read more

The Drop: A Snowfall Saga Review — Free Samples, Then You Pay

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  Malcolm Spellman never wrote an episode of Snowfall. FX handed him the spinoff anyway, and what he came back with is not a tour of familiar streets. The Drop: A Snowfall Saga opens in 1990, four years after the parent show signed off, and it keeps South Los Angeles while swapping out the product. … Read more

Fuze Is HBO Max’s Number One Movie. It Never Really Opened in America.

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A construction crew in Paddington digs up a bomb the Luftwaffe dropped on London eighty-odd years ago. The device is live. The city empties the blocks around it, and while a bomb disposal officer lies on his stomach over the thing, a crew several streets away walks into a bank the evacuation has emptied for … Read more