The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The late Swedish author Steig Larsson created a series of books originally titled "Men Who Hate Women" with a character who was an idealized version of himself -- an investigative journalist of...
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The Adventures of Tintin
Two box office champion directors and a cult favorite joined forces for a film that was a first for all of them, a 3D motion capture animated story. It is clear that director Steven Spielberg,...
View ArticleUp for a Bit of English Mystery?
British TV specialist Acorn has the first complete collection of Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime: The Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries starring James Warwick and Francesca Annis as the lively...
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New on Blu-Ray: Laura
The classic noir mystery/romance Laura is just out on Blu-Ray, and it is magnificent. It has one of the all-time great movie twists, so I won't give much away except to say that it stars the...Read...
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Now You See Me
The most purely entertaining movie of the year so far is "Now You See Me," and like all great magic tricks, it makes us delighted to be fooled. We are warned from the very beginning that the closer...
View ArticleCharade
I'm delighted that one of the all-time great romantic thrillers is being released for the first time on Blu-Ray this week. Director Stanley Donen out-Hitchcock's Alfred Hitchcock with this witty,...
View ArticleTwo Film Noir Classics Now Free Streaming
"Film Noir" ("black films") usually refers to the stylized dark crime films of the 1940's, usually made by German directors who came to the United States to escape the Nazis. Their cynicism, sense of...
View ArticleVeronica Mars
NOTE: I can't pretend any objectivity here -- I am a fan of the television series, a Kickstarter supporter of the film, and a friend of one of the producers. I think I would have been capable of...
View ArticleInherent Vice
We love mystery stories because they reassure us that questions have answers and justice is possible. But some mystery stories are there to remind us that life is complicated and messy, and sometimes...
View ArticleTrailer: The American Side
Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by the (real-life) enigmatic scientist, Nikola Tesla. This noir with a...
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