Author: Mahesh Gnan
Mahesh Gnan
Mahesh Gnan works as a freelance reporter with an eye for TV and film. The journalist first made his mark in digital entertainment with the Hollywood Hive before going out on his own in 2021 to pursue a freelance path. Since then he has put in work for publications such as Retro Screen, The Nexus, Hub, Culture Center and others. He has a special affinity for the crime comedy genre.
“The Legacy of the Jordans” may not be the most explosive hour of the freshman season, but it easily ranks among the best.
Marvel fans clearly weren’t done with Avengers: Endgame just yet. The 2019 blockbuster returned to theaters this weekend in an expanded re-release, and audiences turned up in big enough numbers to send it straight back to No. 1 at the North American box office, just months before Avengers: Doomsday arrives. Now retitled Avengers: Endgame Encore and featuring new bonus material, the film made $26 million from 3,060 domestic locations. That’s a pretty remarkable result for a movie that has already been seen by, well, basically everyone and is readily available to watch at home. The international numbers were even bigger,…
After putting his own distinct stamp on Nosferatu, director Robert Eggers is heading straight back into the shadows with Werwulf, a gritty medieval horror film set in 13th-century England. The official trailer drops viewers right back into the heavy atmosphere, period authenticity, and slow-burn dread that have become hallmarks of his filmmaking style. Set against the bleak backdrop of medieval Britain, Werwulf follows a humble peasant (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson) whose life is upended by a terrifying, inexplicable transformation. Lily-Rose Depp stars alongside him as his devoted wife, while Willem Dafoe plays a grim, relentless hunter hot on the trail…
Mark Harmon is finally stepping back into the role of Leroy Jethro Gibbs in a much bigger way. Beginning October 6, 2026, when NCIS: Origins Season 3 premieres in the U.S., the actor will be part of a season-long storyline rather than simply popping up for a quick appearance that gives longtime fans something to talk about. That makes this return a pretty big deal for the NCIS franchise. Gibbs has been gone from the main series since 2021, but the character has never really disappeared. Origins found a clever way to keep Harmon involved by having him narrate the…
After years of waiting, Brad Bird’s Ray Gunn is finally starting to look like a real movie audiences will actually get to see. Netflix has released the first trailer for the animated sci-fi noir, giving us a much better look at the strange world Bird has been working toward for decades. The film mixes old-school 1940s detective stories with retro-futuristic science fiction, and the easiest way to describe the whole thing might still be Bird’s own pitch: The Maltese Falcon meets Buck Rogers. Bird, who directed The Incredibles, The Iron Giant and Ratatouille, has apparently been carrying the idea for…
Turkish series have been having a pretty good run on Netflix lately. Much like K-dramas, they’ve slowly gone from something a lot of viewers might have skipped over to a regular part of the streaming conversation. And if you still think Turkish shows are mostly about romance, family drama and endless arguments around a dinner table, Not a Stranger is here to make things a little more complicated. The eight-episode thriller arrived on Netflix on September 17 and didn’t take long to find an audience. It has climbed the charts in a number of countries and reportedly reached the number…
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story certainly doesn’t go for a simple ending. Netflix’s fourth season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s true-crime anthology takes the infamous Lizzie Borden case and turns it into something much more complicated than a straightforward murder mystery. Ella Beatty plays Lizzie, the Massachusetts woman accused of killing her father, Andrew Borden, and stepmother, Abby Borden, while Sarah Paulson appears as another notorious killer, Aileen Wuornos. By the time the finale arrives, the show has moved well beyond the question of whether Lizzie committed the murders and is more interested in what she does after getting…
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is officially returning for a second season, but the upcoming adventures of Dunk and Egg are shaping up to have a very different vibe. The new episodes will continue the journey of Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and the young Aegon “Egg” Targaryen (Dexter Sol Ansell), steering the duo into a notably more melancholic story. Season two adapts The Sworn Sword, the second novella in George R.R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg series. While the debut season stood out for its lighter, more playful atmosphere compared to Game of Thrones and House…
The second season of Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 arrived on Netflix, adding another small but interesting piece to the Duffer Brothers’ ever-expanding universe. The story takes place between Seasons 2 and 3 of the original live-action series, so it has a little room to play around without messing up the main timeline. Since Netflix hasn’t officially announced a third season, the new episodes spend a lot of time tying up the loose ends from Season 1. What happened to Daniel Fischer? Where did those strange blue flowers come from? And what exactly is the entity that has been haunting…
Lionsgate has released the first trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, finally giving us a look at the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell. This time, the story moves away from Katniss Everdeen and follows a much younger Haymitch Abernathy, played by Joseph Zada. Fans will already know where Haymitch ends up, of course, but seeing the teenager he once was—and the events that shaped him—could make for a very different kind of Hunger Games story. Francis Lawrence, who has directed several films in the franchise, returns to direct the new movie. Joseph…