thriller

  • The Dark Place

    The Dark Place

    Keegan Dark has hyperthymesia which means he has visions of his extremely detailed autobiographical memory. The trouble is that both the visions and his memory are more than a tad fuzzy so it takes us some time to work out what they all can possibly mean.  In fact its a good 30 minutes into this…

  • Gone Girl

    When the movie opens on a quiet July morning in a small Missouri town there is no visible indication we are looking at a man who has falling on hard times. It turns out that Nick Frost has been been virtually unemployed since being laid off from his job on a magazine in NY and…

  • The Two Faces of January

    After a overly long gestation period this lesser-known psychological thriller from novelist Patricia Highsmith finally makes it to the big screen. The year is 1962 and the story opens on the sunny steps of the Acropolis where two American tourists, Chester McFarland and his much younger bride Collette, are having fun enjoying the splendor of the…

  • The German Doctor aka Wakolda

    In the opening scenes of this historical drama we see a distinguished looking German gentleman accosting a traveling family of 5 to ask if he may follow behind them as he is unsure about driving alone on the desolate dirt roads in the middle of the vast plains of Patagonia.  The year is 1960 and…