Tag: movie plot

From the very first scene, it is clear to us that something is bothering the title character of Mary Nighy’s debut feature film The Englishwoman. Alice (Anna Kendrick) is under water and seems to be …

The world has probably always been a place full of attention-seeking people, real attention whores who tried in various ways to draw attention to themselves even though they did not deserve that attention in any …

Since I’m not much of a computer game player and the only game I’ve encountered in the last quarter of a century is Football Manager, I didn’t know what to expect from “The Last of …

Court dramas/thrillers based on crime novels by authors such as John Grisham were extremely popular in the 1990s, and Gregory Hoblit’s thriller based on a crime novel by William Diehl is on the same track. …

This Swedish police crime-thriller is one of those long-forgotten films, but “The Man on the Roof” by Bo Widerberg is a great old-school thriller made under the obvious influence of Friedkin’s “The French Connection”. Unlike …

In the latest episode of the series Americans meet a European film, the Swiss working temporarily in Hollywood Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Stranger than Fiction, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace, World War Z) shot a …

  Motherhood is still a common theme in horror movies, and it is the focus of this Mexican combination of horror and psychological drama. Valeria (Natalia Solian) and her husband Raul (Alfonso Dosan) have apparently …

Vincent Le Port presented a shocking and disturbing psychological biographical drama during the Cannes critics’ week. “Bruno Reidal”, which in the English title also has the subtitle “Confessions of a Murderer”, is a film that …

It has already happened to me several times that I came across a seemingly interesting Japanese thriller – a crime drama whose seemingly interesting and intriguing story was literally killed by the frustrating length, slowness, …

Diamonds are eternal, says the well-known marketing slogan of the De Beers company, the world’s largest producer and trader of diamonds, and Jason Kohn’s interesting documentary tries to find an answer to the question of …