All posts tagged "Crime"
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Mark Glass | October 5, 2022
KINPIKA – Review
KINPIKA is a five-episode subtitled Japanese crime drama that manages to spin a complicated tale with all the...
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Mark Glass | September 27, 2022
PREMAN: SILENT FURY – Review
PREMAN: SILENT FURY is a subtitled Indonesian action film that is a relative novelty among the mostly high-octane...
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Cate Marquis | August 15, 2022
EMILY THE CRIMINAL – Review
With Aubrey Plaza as the star and the odd title EMILY THE CRIMINAL, one might be reasonably expect...
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Mark Glass | March 21, 2022
“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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Mark Glass | December 3, 2021
PERSONA – TV Review
PERSONA is a subtitled Turkish 12-episode TV miniseries offering a unique protagonist in a suspenseful crime drama. Agah...
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Mark Glass | October 28, 2021
“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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Cate Marquis | October 1, 2021
THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK – Review
The highly-anticipated “Sopranos” prequel THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK finally arrives in theaters and proves that it was...
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Jim Batts | August 26, 2021
FLAG DAY – Review
With Labor Day less than a couple of weeks away, it’s only natural that the studios would release...
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Mark Glass | August 18, 2021
FATAL RAID – Review
THE FATAL RAID is a contemporary Hong Kong action flick offering the best and the worst of this...
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Mark Glass | June 1, 2021
THE FOX (“Die Fuchsin”) – TV Review
The title of this German television series refers neither to the critter hunted by British aristos, nor the...
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Jim Batts | February 25, 2021
CHERRY (2021) – Review
Here’s a film whose behind-the-scenes (and one in “in front”) story may be just as, if not more,...
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Jim Batts | July 13, 2020
PIRANHAS – Review
This week’s new release (well, new to most of us, since it played several film festivals, including St....
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Jim Batts | January 16, 2020
LES MISERABLES (2019) – Review
Oh, oh. Didn’t we just endure another retelling of this classic story? And in song this last time?...
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Jim Batts | November 21, 2019
THE IRISHMAN – Review
This is the ‘big one”. Really, there may be no other way to truly describe this new epic...
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Jim Batts | September 26, 2019
TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID – Review
This film’s premise may promise many flights of fantasy and endearing whimsical humor, but what it delivers is...
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Jim Batts | April 18, 2019
LITTLE WOODS – Review
“Welcome to Hard Times”. That’s the name of a classic Western flick from over fifty years ago. But...
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Cate Marquis | April 5, 2019
ASH IS PUREST WHITE – Review
A searing epic of a gangster couple’s romance set against a backdrop of a changing China spanning near...
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Cate Marquis | January 18, 2019
DESTROYER – Review
This is not how we are used to seeing Nicole Kidman. Kidman plays snarling, violent, even grizzled...