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
Romy (Nicole Kidman) is a high powered CEO with a successful husband (Antonio Banderas) and two teenage children. But when she meets Samuel (Harris Dickinson), a much younger intern at her company she finds herself in a torrid affair that caters to her deepest darkest fantasies. When we first meet Romy she is faking an … Continue reading Babygirl
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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