Posts Tagged ‘detective’

Saw IV (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tobin Bell | Costas Mandylor | Scott Patterson | Betsy Russell | Lyriq Bent | Athena Karkanis | Justin Louis | Simon Reynolds | Donnie Wahlberg | Angus Macfadyen | Shawnee Smith | Bahar Soomekh | Dina Meyer | Mike Realba | Marty Adams
Directors: Darren Lynn Bousman
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Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry’s murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw’s latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend or face the deadly consequences.

Bound by Honor (aka “Blood in, blood out”) (1993)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Damian Chapa | Jesse Borrego | Benjamin Bratt | Enrique Castillo | Victor Rivers | Delroy Lindo | Tom Towles | Carlos Carrasco | Teddy Wilson | Raymond Cruz | Valente Rodriguez | Lanny Flaherty | Billy Bob Thornton | Geoffrey Rivas | Karmin Murcelo
Directors: Taylor Hackford
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Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the “Vatos Locos”, and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a “home” for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his “carnal”, Miklo.

Blade Runner (Final cut) (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Rutger Hauer | Sean Young | Edward James Olmos | M. Emmet Walsh | Daryl Hannah | William Sanderson | Brion James | Joe Turkel | Joanna Cassidy | James Hong | Morgan Paull | Kevin Thompson | John Edward Allen | Hy Pyke
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 “skin jobs”, a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.

Fracture (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Ryan Gosling | David Strathairn | Rosamund Pike | Embeth Davidtz | Billy Burke | Cliff Curtis | Fiona Shaw | Bob Gunton | Josh Stamberg | Xander Berkeley | Zoe Kazan | Judith Scott | Gary Cervantes | Petrea Burchard
Directors: Gregory Hoblit
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Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who’s soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it’s an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum’s weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy’s a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in predictable ways.

The Number 23 (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Carrey | Virginia Madsen | Logan Lerman | Danny Huston | Lynn Collins | Rhona Mitra | Michelle Arthur | Mark Pellegrino | Paul Butcher | David Stifel | Corey Stoll | Ed Lauter | Troy Kotsur | Walter Soo Hoo | Patricia Belcher
Directors: Joel Schumacher
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On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She’s browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dreams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by “23,” he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth.

Dead Silence (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan Kwanten | Amber Valletta | Donnie Wahlberg | Michael Fairman | Joan Heney | Bob Gunton | Laura Regan | Dmitry Chepovetsky | Judith Roberts | Keir Gilchrist | Steven Taylor | David Talbot | Steve Adams | Shelley Peterson
Directors: James Wan
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Every town has it’s own ghost story, and a local folktale around Ravens Fair is about a ventriloquist named Mary Shaw. After she went mad in the 1940s, she was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople who in the ultimate act of revenge, cut out her tongue and then killed her. They buried her along with her “children,” a handmade collection of vaudeville dolls, and assumed they had silenced her forever. However, Ravens Fair has been plagued by mysterious deaths around them after Mary Shaws collection has returned from their graves and have come to seek revenge on people that killed her and their families. Far from the pall of their cursed hometown, newlyweds Jamie and Lisa Ashen thought they had established a fresh start, until Jamie’s wife is grotesquely killed in their apartment. Jamie returns to Ravens Fair for the funeral, intent on unraveling the mystery of Lisa’s death. Once reunited with his ill father, Edward, and his father’s new young bride, Ella, Jamie must dig into the town’s bloody past to find out who killed his wife and why. All the while, he is doggedly pursued by a detective who doesn’t believe a word he says. As he uncovers the legend of Mary Shaw, he will unlock the story of her curse and the truth behind the threat from a rhyme in his childhood: if you see Mary Shaw and scream, she’ll take your tongue. And the last thing you will hear before you die…is your own voice speaking back to you.

Johnny Handsome (1989)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Mickey Rourke | Ellen Barkin | Elizabeth McGovern | Morgan Freeman | Forest Whitaker | Lance Henriksen | Scott Wilson | David Schramm | Yvonne Bryceland | Peter Jason | J.W. Smith | Jeffrey Meek | Allan Graf | Ed Zang | John P. Fertitta
Directors: Walter Hill
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A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his father-figure and sent him to prison.

The Poet (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Austria | Germany | UK
Actors: Dougray Scott | Laura Harring | Jürgen Prochnow | Andrew Lee Potts | Erika Marozsán | Mavie Hörbiger | Miguel Herz-Kestranek | Peter Mouka | Hary Prinz | Rudy Ruggiero | Fanny Gatibelza | Gunther Gillian | Jürgen Kloth | Klaus Nierhoff | Siegfried Polap
Directors: Paul Hills
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A contract killer sees a chance to free himself from a tragic past.

Brick (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Nora Zehetner | Lukas Haas | Noah Fleiss | Matt O'Leary | Emilie de Ravin | Noah Segan | Richard Roundtree | Meagan Good | Brian J. White | Jonathan Cauff | Reedy Gibbs | Lucas Babin | Tracy Wilcoxen | Ari Welkom
Directors: Rian Johnson
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In a modern-day Southern California neighborhood and high school, student Brendan Frye’s piercing intelligence spares no one. He’s not afraid to back up his words with actions, and knows all the angles; yet he prefers to stay an outsider, and does - until the day that his ex-girlfriend, Emily, reaches out to him unexpectedly and then vanishes. His feelings for her still run deep; so much so, that he becomes consumed with finding his troubled inamorata. To find her, he enlists the aid of his only true peer, the Brain, while keeping the assistant vice principal only occasionally informed of what quickly becomes a dangerous investigation. Brendan’s single-minded unearthing of students’ secrets thrusts him headlong into the colliding social orbits of rich-girl sophisticate Laura, intimidating Tugger, substance-abusing Dode, seductive Kara, jock Brad and - most ominously - non-student the Pin. Only by gaining acceptance into the Pin’s closely guarded inner circle of crime and punishment that Brendan will be able to uncover hard truths about himself, Emily and the suspects that he is getting closer to.

Helter Skelter (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeremy Davies | Clea DuVall | Allison Smith | Eric Dane | Mary Lynn Rajskub | Michael Weston | Hal Ozsan | Rick Gomez | Robert Joy | Graham Beckel | Chris Ellis | Isabella Hofmann | Robert Costanzo | Yvonne Delarosa | Crystal Rivers
Directors: John Gray
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A new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself.