Category Archives: Crime
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.
The Happytime Murders
Release 2018
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Director: Brian Henson
Writers: Todd Berger, Dee Austin Robertson
Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudolph
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1308728/
When the puppet cast of a '90s children's TV show begin to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case.