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Film

Movie Review: Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion

By sara.eslami

January 4, 2023

If you haven’t watched the movie, stop reading since there are massive spoilers ahead.  Photo Credit: T-Street Productions Can we take a second and fully inbreathiate what an extraordinary movie Glass Onion was? Simultaneously layered as a whodunit and a revenge story, Rian Johnson creates something so complex, so outlandish, and yet at the same…

Let the Right One In: Series Trailer

By Crime HQ

October 4, 2022

Let the Right One In is a new vampire series created in the same spirit as the internationally bestselling novel of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The series follows Mark Kane (portayed by Oscar® nominee Demián Bichir) and his daughter Eleanor Kane (Madison Taylor Baez), who turns into a vampire at the age…

Page-to-Screen: Malcolm Braly’s On the Yard

By Brian Greene

July 29, 2022

Background They say write what you know. Malcolm Braly (1925-80) knew prisons. Orphaned as a teenager, the Oregon native spent the majority of his years aged approximately 17-40 behind bars. A career burglar and multiple parole violator, he was in a reform school at 17 and in the facility at San Quentin for the crux…

Review of Netflix’s The Gray Man

By Hector DeJean

July 26, 2022

In his book Reinventing Comics, Scott McCloud points out that hand-drawn static-image super hero stories can’t compete against first-person power fantasies presented in film, video games, or on television—that action is much more exciting on a screen than in a comic book. If you don’t believe him, check out how many people have seen the…

Review of Netflix’s Sweet Girl

By Hector DeJean

October 4, 2021

When Sweet Girl debuted on Netflix on August 20th, it instantly became the most popular offering on the site, enticing viewers with its medley of dynamic fight sequences combined with a crime thriller story, throwing in a twist worthy of an early-career M. Night Shyamalan. Jason Momoa plays a sympathetic dad going after the big…

Pickup on South Street: A Cold War Thriller… Or Not

By Brian Greene

April 23, 2021

If someone who’s seen Samuel Fuller’s 1953 film Pickup on South Street was asked to describe it using just a few words, they might say it’s “a Cold War spy thriller.” On the surface, that way of characterizing the movie is apt enough. The story does involve a ring of traitorous Americans who steal their…

The Ten Best Political Thriller Films Ever

By Jon Land

February 25, 2021

From its very inception, Margaret Truman’s Capital Crimes series has excelled at stitching tales of murder and mystery with Washington, D.C. as a backdrop. Look no further than the title of each of the now 31 entries to find a particular setting in the Capital where a murder sets off a high stakes game or…

Page to Screen: The Parallax View

By Brian Greene

January 21, 2021

The early-to-mid 1970s was a time when Americans’ distrust in our politicians was at a peak. The country still had not gotten over the 1960s assassinations of beloved young leaders John F. and Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Many still wondered whether the individuals held responsible for their killings acted alone, or were…

Film Review: Enola Holmes

By Hector DeJean

October 2, 2020

Sherlock Holmes was, is, and likely will remain a solid fuel source for the entertainment industry, and the very latest offering is the Netflix film Enola Holmes, based on the Edgar Award-nominated YA series by Nancy Springer. Millie Bobby Brown, who launched her career playing Eleven on Stranger Things, dives into the part of Sherlock…

Page to Screen: Hammett (1982)

By Brian Greene

September 2, 2020

Think of the career of acclaimed film director Wim Wenders (1945-) and what’s the first title of his that comes to your mind? Paris, Texas (1984)? Wings of Desire (1987)? Maybe Buena Vista Social Club (1999)? The cinematic work of his I personally treasure the most is Alice in the Cities (1974). I bet you…

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