Tag: thriller
A Second Chance
It’s only the ‘goodies’ that get a second chance in this new rather overwrought melodrama from Danish Oscar winning director Susanne Bier as the ‘baddies’ evidently do not deserve to dig themselves out of the hell holes of lives they have ended up with. The action starts with Police Detective Andreas and his partner Simon bursting into a squalid…
Hyena
The ‘hyena’ in this slick and brutal crime thriller is a burly bent copper called Michael Logan who plays so closely with fire, he is definitely going to get more than his fingers burned if things turn out as badly as they probably will. The film opens with Logan taking a call and then driving…
A Most Violent Year
Abel Morales wants to pursue the ‘American dream’ the right way. However his pushy wife Anna thinks otherwise. She is the daughter of the Brooklyn mobster who sold his small Heating Oil business to Morales in the first place, and Anna is well aware that if they are to be successful they will first have…
The Drop
This wonderful new crime thriller written by Denis Lehane (‘Mystic River’,’Gone Baby Gone’) set in Boston his hometown, is the story of Bob a solitary loner who is a bartender is his cousin Marv’s bar. Well the name over the door is still Marv’s but after he got heavily into debt gambling, he was forced to…
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…
