Some of the most thrilling stories come from real life. So it's no surprise that some of the best movies are based on true stories. Below are six great crime films based on true events!
Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is hearing voices. Well, a voice. A middle-aged British woman's voice, to be exact. She's narrating everything he thinks, everything he feels, everything he does. He's beginning to wonder if he isn't going crazy. That would be the logical assumption; given how bland and boring Harold's lonely life is as an…
It’s rational to think that one hasn’t fully matured as a human until they’ve come to understand death. No matter how much one has been told about the taxing toll of losing a loved one throughout their life, it’s really impossible to know what grief feels like until you’ve actually experienced it. The turmoil and…
When your debut feature film receives attention for containing materials that causes audience members to faint, one must wonder what that says about your capabilities as an artist/provocateur. This did indeed happen when French director Julia Ducournau screened her film Raw at The Toronto Film Festival last fall, and it’s an ugly fact that’s been latched onto the film…
One sign of a worthwhile film is that it can be experienced on different levels. This is the case with The Love Witch, the sexy horror-thriller movie that was released in late 2016 and is still making its debut in theaters in parts of the globe now. One aspect of The Love Witch that a…
Social thrillers are hard to pull off. While, sure, there have been numerous genre films that have managed to satisfy as entertainment while still being potent allegory, there are exceedingly more instances where filmmakers get bogged down with their ideas, resulting in a half-baked execution (The Purge franchise, anyone?). For Jordan Peele’s directorial debut, however,…
It’s hard to believe that this is my fourth time writing this article. What started out as merely a brainstorming joke has turned into my favorite singular piece of writing I do each year. On Sunday, February 26th, the Oscar’s return, and with it comes nine nominees for Best Picture. While I’m not necessarily worthy…
Screenplay writers hate Hollywood! It really is as simple as that. There's a good chance you would too if you had to go through all the studio bullshit (i.e., studio rewrites, budget cuts, lame-brain producers) just to see a version of your project reach theaters that barely resembles what you had in mind. Just ask…
John Wick is back, and it looks like he’s about kill a lot of people. Keanu Reeves returns as legendary hitman John Wick, who is forced back out of retirement when a former associate plots to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. If the trailer is any indication, Director Chad Stahelski has upped…
The Girl with all the Gifts is set in a dystopian world where a fungal spore has infected most of the world’s population, causing the infected to lose their mental functions and feed on human flesh. Based on M.R. Carey’s 2014 novel of the same name, The Girl with all the Gifts follows a particular…
