Category Archives: Mystery and Suspense

TV RECAP: ‘Grimm’ Episode 215 – ‘Mr. Sandman’

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Eric Miller

A new Wesen is introduced in this episode, a man who picks up woman at grief support groups. He gets invited back to their home, and spews a Great Muta (or Tajiri for younger readers) like red mist into their … Continue reading →

Posted in Drama, Mystery and Suspense, NBC, News, TV, TV Recap, TV Recaps | Tagged Bitsie Tulloch, Bree Turner, Claire Coffee, David Giuntoli, Drama, Grimm, NBC, Reggie Lee, Russell Hornsby, Sasha Roiz, Silas Weir Mitchell, TV, TV recap | Comments Off

Movie Review: ‘Side Effects’

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Nat Almirall

Side Effects is the perfect response to Broken City and Promised Land, two films that offered great potential but drowned themselves in shallowness, eschewing dimension and complexity to make the bad guys really bad while taking their message as inherently … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Mystery and Suspense, Reviews | Tagged Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Open Road Films, Rooney Mara, Scott Z. Burns, Side Effects, Steven Soderbergh, Thrillers | Comments Off

McConaughey and Harrelson to Star In ‘True Detective’ Cable Series

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Sebastian Suchecki

In what will surely be the most sought after new property on television, True Detective is being shopped to various cable networks. The eight-part series already has Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson attached to star, which should help quite a … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Mystery and Suspense, News | Tagged Between Here and the Yellow Sea, Cheers, EdTV, Galveston, Matthew McConaughey, Nic Pizzolatto, Surfer Dude, The Killing, True Detective, woody harrelson | Comments Off

Monday Picks: Michael Mann’s ‘Manhunter’

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s Monday pick is Manhunter (1986), Michael Mann’s film adaptation of Thomas Harris’s classic novel Red Dragon. The film stars William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina, Stephen Lang, and Tom Noonan. Manhunter is one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Action, Blu-Ray, Cult Cinema, Directors, DVD, DVD Reviews, MGM, Monday Picks, Movies, Mystery and Suspense, Netflix | Tagged Brian Cox, Dante Spinotti, Dennis Farina, Joan Allen, Kim Greist, Michael Mann, Stephen Lang, Tom Noonan, William Petersen | Comments Off

Monday Picks: John Carpenter’s ‘Assault on Precinct 13’

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the John Carpenter exploitation classic Assault on Precinct 13 that stars Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, and Carpenter regular Charles Cyphers. Before Carpenter hit it big two years later in 1978 with the critically acclaimed financial … Continue reading →

Posted in Action, Blu-Ray, Cult Cinema, Directors, DVD, DVD Reviews, Monday Picks, Movies, Mystery and Suspense, Netflix, Thriller | Tagged Austin Stoker, Charles Cyphers, Darwin Joston, John Carpenter, Laurie Zimmer | Comments Off

Blu-Ray Review: ‘Texas Killing Fields’ Starring Sam Worthington

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Matt Blackwood

Texas Killing Fields is a strong, straightforward crime thriller which tells the story of three cops running the gauntlet in an attempt to solve two brutal crimes. But the film is particularly notable for its haunting tone and superlative acting. Director … Continue reading →

Posted in Action, Anchor Bay, Blu-Ray, Drama, Movies, Mystery and Suspense, News, Thriller | Tagged Ami Canaan Mann, Blu-Ray, Chloe Moretz, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, jessica Chastain, Movies, Sam Worthington | Comments Off

Monday Picks: ‘Blue Thunder’

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s Monday pick is the action thriller Blue Thunder (1983) directed by John Badham (Dracula, War Games). The film stars Roy Scheider (Frank Murphy), Malcolm McDowell (Colonel Cochrane), Daniel Stern (Richard Lymangood), Candy Clark (Kate), and in his final … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘The Hunt for Red October’

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the John McTiernan thriller The Hunt for Red October (1990). Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, and James Earl Jones star in this Cold War classic about a Soviet naval commander and a new … Continue reading →