All posts tagged "Mystery"
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MISSING (2023) – Review
So do you have lots of friends, or more likely older relatives, that are leery of the new...
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THE PALE BLUE EYE – Review
At West Point in 1830, a cadet is found hanged, in an apparent suicide, but then the body...
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“Petra” – TV Series Review
The title of “Petra” refers to the name of the lead character in this Italian procedural TV series,...
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AMSTERDAM – Review
Director/writer David O. Russell’s AMSTERDAM features a dazzling cast in a period mystery/adventure tale in which three friends,...
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CONFESS, FLETCH – Review
Yes, it’s a bit late for a flick based on a “beach book’ (usually a paperback you’d read...
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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING – Review
So now we’re at the mid-point of the cinematic “travel-palooza” that has taken up most of the spots...
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GONE IN THE NIGHT – Review
Summer’s not just the time for big family vacations, y’know. Though it’s five months away from Valentine’s Day,...
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“Gloria” – TV Series Review
“Gloria” is a six-episode subtitled miniseries from French TV, featuring a justifiably frazzled woman suddenly facing chaos on...
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“Cherif” Season 4 – TV Series Review
“Cherif” is a subtitled French mystery TV series set in Lyon, France, that ran for six years. Based...
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ALL THE OLD KNIVES – Review
ALL THE OLD KNIVES is an intense political thriller with a relatively unusual framework. Eight years before the...
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“Deadly Tropics” (“Tropiques Criminels”) – TV Series
For U.S. viewers to know what’s coming in the French TV crime series “Deadly Tropics” (“Tropiques Criminels”), let’s...
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DEATH ON THE NILE (2022) – Review
Not in the mood for romance this big pre-holiday weekend? Well, how about a murder, most foul, and….quite...
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SUNDOWN – Review
Things are not always as they appear. In Mexican writer/director Michel Franco’s SUNDOWN, Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg...
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Iskander series seasons 1 and 2 – TV Review
Season 2 of Topic’s original TV series ISKANDER debuts Thursday, Jan. 13, with the entire season 1 also...
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THE LOST DAUGHTER – Review
Olivia Colman gives a gripping, multi-layered performance as an enigmatic middle-aged woman, who seems haunted by her past,...
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“NOX” – TV Series Review
“NOX” is a six-episode subtitled miniseries from French TV that is far more complicated than most, but worth...
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REMINISCENCE – Review
REMINISCENCE stars Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson and Thandiwe Newton in a twisty sci-fi mystery that is part BLADE...
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UNDINE – Review
A strange, suspenseful tale of love, betrayal and tragedy, UNDINE is a re-imagining of a fairy-tale myth, set...
