Posts Tagged ‘thriller’

Mary (Brittany Murphy) is taking the morning off from work to take her boyfriend, Kevin (Dean Cain), to the hospital for surgery.  After a few hours of waiting in the lobby for him she realises that something has to be wrong.  She soon confronts some medical staff only to be told that her boyfriend is not in their system, the doctor he was coming to meet is on leave and there’s no one coming in for the kind of operation that she claims he was scheduled to do.  She’s left being accused of being insane and wondering who’s playing the sad joke on her. (more…)

The last thirty minutes of my life has proven that it’s impossible to try and summarize this film.  There are so many un-understandable points in this film that I have no idea as to what happened or what it meant.  I could easily write a two-hundred word paragraph giving away every plot point of this film, but I’m sure I would only confuse those who haven’t seen this movie even more.  Let’s just say a lot of weird things happen, and somehow Fred (Bill Pullman) goes to jail and transforms into Pete (Balthazar Getty) and they both encounter this mystery man, played by Robert Blake. (more…)

Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) are called to Shutter Island to solve to case of the escaped patient.  The Marshalls realize the more and more they look into the disappearance of Rachel Solando is the more it seems that something else is going on.  We follow the investigation and at the same time follow our Marshalls run around this maze of a mental facility trying to make sense of it all. (more…)

note: this is a repost of one my Reviews from Aug 9th, 2008.

Detective David Mills (Brad Pitt) is a youngster that has just transferred into the New York City’s homicide division. Detective Lt. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is the experienced homicide detective that has been partnered with Mills for his final week before he retires. As Mills enters the city and starts work at the same time a new serial killer starts his work using the seven deadly sins as the overall theme for his murders. (more…)

Emma Craven [Bojana Novakovic] decides to come home and spend some time with her father, Thomas Craven [Mel Gibson], when she is suddenly murdered in her father’s arms.  As Thomas, being a Boston Detective, works his way to the truth as to who killed his daughter and why he finds out about multiple conspiracies occurring with his daughter’s employers and the US Government. (more…)

Ty Hackett [Columbus Short] has just been made a guard at his new job.  He and his brother are living together after their parents have recently passed and are under a lot of financial pressure by the banks.  Ty’s godfather, Mike [Matt Dillon], approaches him with a plan for them and a few other guards to rob the money they are planning to transport the following day.  Eventually Ty agrees and they begin what seems will be the easiest heist in the world, until it all goes wrong of course. (more…)

In the year 2009 a scientist, Adrian Helmsley [Chiwetel Ejiofor], discovers that something odd is happening with the earth and figures out that the world as we know it is going to end in the year 2012.  As the day of reckoning comes a regular everyday guy, Jackson Curtis [John Cusack], takes it upon himself to save him and his family from this end of days event. (more…)

After Clyde Shelton’s [Gerard Butler] wife and child are both murdered the prosecuting lawyer, Nick Rice [Jamie Foxx], decides to cut a deal with one of the two murderers so as to get a reduced sentence and send the other on death row.  Clyde is not satisfied with this course of action and decides to take revenge on not only the pair of criminals who murdered his family but also the entire justice system that failed him. (more…)

This week I plan on completing a Steven Soderbergh Marathon, which I will call The Soderbergh Series, of watching and reviewing six of his films that I’ve always wanted to see but never have.  This is an effort for me to increase my already lacking knowledge of film and also to possibly introduce others to some films that Soderbergh may have done that does start with the word Ocean in the title.  Today’s Soderbergh Series has me watch me watching The Limey. (more…)

Addicted to the Tube has returned. I know it has been a long while since I blogged but since the people in charge of gmanReviews are having problems sending my paycheck I had to find myself a job, which kept me very busy. It is the time of year when we get ready for season returns. I plan to do as many reviews as possible. The first on my list is the Showtime hit, Dexter. Season 4 of Dexter is scheduled to air September 27^th. (more…)