Category Archives: Crime
Assassin
Release 2023
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Director: Jesse Atlas
Writers: Jesse Atlas, Aaron Wolfe
Stars: Bruce Willis, Andy Allo, Dominic Purcell, Eugenia Kuzmina, Mustafa Shakir
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14555174/
A man dies as part of an experimental military program. A former black-ops soldier takes his place to find who killed him.
Boston Strangler
Release 2023
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Director: Matt Ruskin
Writer: Matt Ruskin
Stars: Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola, Rory Cochrane
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2560078/
Loretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the city's most notorious serial killer.
Little Dixie
Release 2023
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Director: John Swab
Writer: John Swab
Stars: Frank Grillo, Thomas Dekker, Eric Dane, Annabeth Gish, Mercedes Mason
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13614388/
Doc facilitates a fragile truce between the Governor and Cartel, trading prosecutorial leniency for finance. With no more truce, Doc is left to fend for himself and protect the one untainted thing in his life: his daughter, Little Dixie.
Luther: The Fallen Sun
Release 2023
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Director: Jamie Payne
Writers: Neil Cross
Stars: Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo, Andy Serkis, Dermot Crowley, Thomas Coombes
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3155298/
Brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther breaks out of prison to hunt down a sadistic serial killer who is terrorising London.
Marlowe
Release 2022
Genre Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Neil Jordan
Writers: William Monahan, Neil Jordan, John Banville
Stars: Liam Neeson, Brenda Rawn,Jessica Lange
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6722802/
In late 1930s Bay City, a brooding, down on his luck detective is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress.
Sharper
Release 2023
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Director: Benjamin Caron
Writers: Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka
Stars: Justice Smith, Briana Middleton, Sebastian Stan, Hannah Dunne, Giullian Yao Gioiello
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12573454/
A con artist takes on Manhattan's billionaires.
Infinity Pool
Release 2023
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Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Writers: Brandon Cronenberg
Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10365998/
James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors.
Transfusion
Release 2023
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Director: Matt Nable
Writers: Matt Nable
Stars: Sam Worthington, Phoebe Tonkin, Matt Nable, Susie Porter, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14873054/
A former Special Forces operative thrust into the criminal underworld to keep his only son from being taken from him.
The Pale Blue Eye
Release 2022
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Director: Scott Cooper
Writers: Scott Cooper, Louis Bayard
Stars: Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Simon McBurney, Timothy Spall, Toby Jones
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14138650/
A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets' code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case - a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Release 2022
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Director: Rian Johnson
Writers: Rian Johnson
Stars: Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Janelle Monáe
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11564570/
Famed Southern detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece for his latest case.