Thriller reviews
Lanterns Season 1 Episode 2
A half-step up on the premiere: sharper craft, a genuinely good final ten minutes, and a highway chase that breaks the show's own rules.
Insidious: Out of the Further
A horror film that would rather make you uncomfortable than scare you. It is good at that. The scale of the threat it keeps promising never arrives.
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Sam Raimi's island thriller is funny, filthy and sharp about office power. It stops arguing the moment it works out it can escalate instead.
Lanterns Season 1 Episode 1
HBO's Green Lantern series opens on a murder in small-town Nebraska, two Lanterns who can't stand each other, and almost no ring at all.
The End of Oak Street
David Robert Mitchell's dinosaur picture is fast, funny and genuinely nasty. It's also a family drama that gets solved by a plot device instead of by its family.
The Last House
A superb locked-house premise and two good performances, undone by a final act that pays for none of it.
Obsession
A novelty toy grants one wish. What follows is the year's most uncomfortable horror — and the read it earns isn't the obvious one.
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- Who Is Guy Gardner? Powers, Origin and Why He Matters to LanternsGuy Gardner qualified for the ring on the same day Hal Jordan did, and lost it on distance. Here is who he is and what he can do.
- Who Is Sinestro in Lanterns? Powers, Origin and Why He TurnedSinestro was the greatest Green Lantern who ever lived, and then he became the Corps' worst enemy. Here is who he is and what turned him.
- What Are the Manhunters in Lanterns? Their Powers and DC Lore ExplainedThe Manhunters are the robot police the Guardians built before the Green Lantern Corps. Here is what they are, what they can do, and why they matter.
- Lanterns Mystery Board: Every Unanswered QuestionA running, numbered tracker of every unanswered question in HBO's Lanterns. Updated after each episode. Spoilers throughout.
- Lanterns Episode 1 Ending Explained: Is Hal Jordan Dead?Hal Jordan is found dead in the final scene of Lanterns episode 1 — or is he? What happened, what hail means, and what the 2026 jump sets up.
- The End of Oak Street Ending ExplainedThe End of Oak Street ending explained: who made the wormholes, which dinosaurs turn up, what happens to the other Platts, and whether a sequel is coming.