The Thursday Murder Club is a group of four pensioners who live at Cooper’s Chase Retirement home that get together in their spare time to solve cold cases. But when the owner of Cooper’s Chase is struck down at his home they have a real life case to solve. The Thursday Murder Club is based … Continue reading The Thursday Murder Club
Former Royal Marine Commando Levon Cade (Jason Statham) now works construction for the kindly Garcia family. But when Jenny Garcia (Arianna Rivas) is kidnapped Levon must use the skills he learnt in his former life to save her. Of course Levon is a complicated man whom we should all love for his service to his … Continue reading A Working Man
1957, New York City. Frank Costello (Robert De Niro) has run organised crime in the city since his childhood friend Vito Genevese (also played by Robert De Niro) had to flee to Italy. With everything running smoothly he is almost considered a legitimate member of the community. So when Genevese returns expecting his territory to … Continue reading The Alto Knights
Los Angeles, 1949. Jewish crime boss Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) has a vice like grip on the city and its corrupt police force. That is until Police Chief William Parker (Nick Nolte) asks Sergeant John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) to form the Gangster Squad. An off the books unit whose task is to dismantle Cohen’s empire … Continue reading Gangster Squad
A Driver (Ryan Gosling) who acts as both a criminal wheelman, a film stuntman and a mechanic finds himself embroiled in a heist gone wrong with mob connections. The opening thirteen minutes of Drive are perfect. We see the distinctive pink lettering of the opening credits, we hear the Driver's speech to his current customer … Continue reading Drive
When David Marks’ (Ryan Gosling) wife Katie (Kirsten Dunst) goes missing in 1982 the prime suspect is Marks himself. Set across the years of 1971 to 2003 All Good Things is based on the true story of real estate tycoon Robert Durst. Even more sensational than the content of this film is that it would … Continue reading All Good Things
When wealthy engineer Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) discovers that his wife is having an affair he shoots her point blank in the head before confessing to the police, asking for his trial to be expedited and choosing to represent himself. Prosecutor Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling) who has one foot out of the door on his … Continue reading Fracture
Two gifted High School students plan and commit a perfect murder as an intellectual expression of their freedom. What they did not account for is the seasoned detective assigned to the case. Murder by Numbers is an example of a classic crime procedural thriller that was prevalent in the 1990’s and 2000’s. The obvious pun … Continue reading Murder By Numbers
When FBI agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) moves to Idaho it is with the intention of slowing down. A veteran of cases involving organised crime and the Ku Klux Klan has made him estranged from his wife and daughters and this step is planned to ease those tensions. But then he finds himself investigating a … Continue reading The Order
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