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.
Hogwarts welcomes three new faces: the HBO-produced Harry Potter TV series has cast Rafe Spall as Arthur Weasley, Molly Hewitt-Richards as Moaning Myrtle, and Jasper Ambrose as Colin Creevey. The New Harry Potter Actors This trio of actors will join the cast of the second season of Harry Potter—based, of course, on the second novel in the fantasy saga created by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Filming is currently underway at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the UK, while fans await the debut of the first season, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, scheduled for December…
A major character’s real identity has finally been exposed, and it changes quite a lot about what we thought we knew about her relationship with John Stewart.
The ending of Mousetrap finally answers the big question that has been hanging over Netflix’s Korean thriller: who exactly is “The Rat”? For most of the ten episodes, it seems like the mystery is mainly about Je Moon-jae, the writer played by Ryu Jun-yeol, trying to figure out who stole his name, his money and basically his entire life. The answer is Seo Yu-min, someone Moon-jae knew from his university literary club. But that reveal is only part of what the finale is doing. The real twist is the reason Yu-min stole Moon-jae’s identity in the first place. As Moon-jae’s…
The Season 3 finale of Silo finally pulls back the curtain on some of the biggest mysteries the show has been building toward, and there is a lot to take in. The episode jumps between the present-day rebellion led by Juliette and the older story involving Daniel Keene and Helen Drew, before bringing those two timelines together in the final stretch. If you finished the episode feeling like you understood everything and then immediately started questioning half of it, that’s pretty understandable. This is a packed finale. It explains how the Silo system actually works, what Silo 1 is really…
The new teaser for HBO’s Harry Potter series only takes a few minutes to make Hogwarts feel familiar again. There’s the Sorting Hat, Quidditch, the Mirror of Erised, the troll, Fluffy and all those other moments fans have seen before, but there’s also something slightly different about the way this version is putting them together. With the series arriving around Christmas 2026, this is probably our clearest look yet at what HBO is actually trying to do with the adaptation. And thankfully, it doesn’t look like the plan is simply to take the old movies, change the actors and shoot…
There’s something very familiar about the summer romance setup. You have the beautiful beaches, two attractive young people, long conversations at night, and that feeling that the whole thing probably can’t last forever. The Last Sunrise, the Amazon MGM Studios adaptation of Anna Todd’s bestselling novel, definitely has all of that. Directed by Carlson Young and filmed around Mallorca, the movie looks almost ridiculously pretty at times, with warm sunlight, clear water and the kind of scenery that makes you want to book a holiday immediately. But underneath all that glossy, postcard-like beauty, the film is dealing with something much…
Spoiler warning: This recap contains major plot details from Episode 5 of Reacher Season 4, “Bridge.” Episode 5 finally starts pulling some of the threads together, although doing so only seems to create three more problems for every answer Reacher gets. Anna Merrick’s death turns out to be tied to a much bigger scheme involving her missing son, a stolen government file and two women who have been pretending to be far more helpless than they really are. Before long, Reacher is being hunted by the police, Jacob is making increasingly questionable decisions and Lila and Amisha have gone from…
It has been nearly two decades since Ron Howard’s The Da Vinci Code arrived in theaters, but the movie still has a strange ability to get people talking. Based on Dan Brown’s hugely successful novel, the film mixes famous artworks, religious history, secret societies and a very controversial theory about the Holy Grail. It was always the sort of movie that was going to cause arguments, especially because it takes familiar Christian traditions and turns them into the foundation of a massive conspiracy. The film recently came back into the spotlight after an Italian television broadcast on Rai 2 reportedly…