Category Archives: Crime
Bad Times at the El Royale
Release 2018
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Director: Drew Goddard
Writer: Drew Goddard
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6628394/
Circa 1969, several strangers, most with a secret to bury, meet by chance at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one night, everyone will show their true colors - before everything goes to hell.
Backtrace
Release 2018
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Director: Brian A. Miller
Writers: Mike Maples
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Ryan Guzman, Matthew Modine
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3588588/
The lone surviving thief of a violent armored car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and administered an experimental drug.
White Boy Rick
Release 2018
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Director: Yann Demange
Writers: Andy Weiss, Logan Miller, Noah Miller
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4537896/
The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
Assassination Nation
Release 2018
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Director: Sam Levinson
Writer: Sam Levinson
Stars: Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6205872/
After a malicious data hack exposes the secrets of the perpetually American town of Salem, chaos decends and four girls must fight to survive, while coping with the hack themselves.
A Simple Favor
Release 2018
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Director: Paul Feig
Writers: Jessica Sharzer, Darcey Bell
Stars: Anna Kendrick, Ian Ho, Joshua Satine
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7040874/
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
Under the Silver Lake
Release 2018
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Director: David Robert Mitchell
Writer: David Robert Mitchell
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Wendy Vanden Heuvel, Deborah Geffner
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5691670/
Sam, intelligent but without purpose, finds a mysterious woman swimming in his apartment's pool one night. The next morning, she disappears. Sam sets off across LA to find her, and along the way he uncovers a conspiracy far more bizarre.
The Happytime Murders
Release 2018
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Director: Brian Henson
Writers: Todd Berger, Dee Austin Robertson
Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudolph
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1308728/
When the puppet cast of a '90s children's TV show begin to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case.
Blindspotting
Release 2018
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Director: Carlos López Estrada
Writers: Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs
Stars: Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7242142/
While on probation, a man begins to re-evaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend.
Papillon
Release 2017
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Director: Michael Noer
Writers: Aaron Guzikowski, Henri Charrière, Dalton Trumbo, Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Stars: Rami Malek, Charlie Hunnam, Tommy Flanagan
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5093026/
Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.