Category Archives: Crime
The Old Man & the Gun
Release 2018
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Director: David Lowery
Writers: David Lowery, David Grann
Stars: Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2837574/
Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.
Yardie
Release 2018
Genre Crime
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Director: Idris Elba
Writers: Victor Headley, Brock Norman Brock, Martin Stellman
Stars: Antwayne Eccleston, Fraser James, Aml Ameen
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5862902/
Set in '70s Kingston and '80s Hackney, Yardie centres on the life of a young Jamaican man named D (Aml Ameen), who has never fully recovered from the murder, committed during his childhood, of his older brother Jerry Dread (Everaldo Creary). D grows up under the wing of a Kingston Don and music producer named King Fox (Sheldon Shepherd). Fox dispatches him to London, where he reconnects with his childhood sweetheart, Yvonne (Shantol Jackson), and his daughter who he's not seen since she was a baby. He also hooks up with a soundclash crew, called High Noon. But before he can be convinced to abandon his life of crime and follow "the righteous path", he encounters the man who shot his brother 10 years earlier, and embarks on a bloody, explosive quest for retribution - a quest which brings him into conflict with vicious London gangster Rico (Stephen Graham).
Replicas
Release 2018
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Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Writers: Chad St. John, Stephen Hamel
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve, Thomas Middleditch
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154916/
A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident.
The Sisters Brothers
Release 2018
Genre Adventure, Comedy, Crime
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Director: Jacques Audiard
Writers: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Patrick DeWitt
Director: Jacques Audiard
Writers: Jacques Audiard (screenplay by), Thomas Bidegain (screenplay by) |
Stars: John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4971344/
In 1850s Oregon, a gold prospector is chased by the infamous duo of assassins, the Sisters brothers.
Bad Times at the El Royale
Release 2018
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Director: Drew Goddard
Writer: Drew Goddard
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6628394/
Circa 1969, several strangers, most with a secret to bury, meet by chance at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one night, everyone will show their true colors - before everything goes to hell.
Backtrace
Release 2018
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Director: Brian A. Miller
Writers: Mike Maples
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Ryan Guzman, Matthew Modine
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3588588/
The lone surviving thief of a violent armored car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and administered an experimental drug.
White Boy Rick
Release 2018
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Director: Yann Demange
Writers: Andy Weiss, Logan Miller, Noah Miller
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4537896/
The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
Assassination Nation
Release 2018
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Director: Sam Levinson
Writer: Sam Levinson
Stars: Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6205872/
After a malicious data hack exposes the secrets of the perpetually American town of Salem, chaos decends and four girls must fight to survive, while coping with the hack themselves.
A Simple Favor
Release 2018
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Director: Paul Feig
Writers: Jessica Sharzer, Darcey Bell
Stars: Anna Kendrick, Ian Ho, Joshua Satine
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7040874/
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
Under the Silver Lake
Release 2018
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Director: David Robert Mitchell
Writer: David Robert Mitchell
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Wendy Vanden Heuvel, Deborah Geffner
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5691670/
Sam, intelligent but without purpose, finds a mysterious woman swimming in his apartment's pool one night. The next morning, she disappears. Sam sets off across LA to find her, and along the way he uncovers a conspiracy far more bizarre.