Recently returned from California, Nick (William Powell) and Nora Charles (Myrna Loy) are not back in New York for long before they are enjoying themselves at a restaurant or having a lavish party in their penthouse. Nick’s chummy with the ruffians, cops, and lowlifes of the city. His wife is from a higher class, but […]
Read more "Private Dicks Never Retire: The Thin Man"When Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) arrives at the watering hole, it’s pretty much dead. He’s got a couple of musical revue show tickets in his pocket that he can’t use, so he offers them to the joint’s other customer, a sad woman in a rather fancy hat (Fay Helm). The two of them are sour […]
Read more "Someone Has To Believe Him: Phantom Lady"It’s a pretty open and shut case: Kirk Bennett (John Phillips) was seen leaving the apartment of murder victim Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling) by her trusted nurse. He claims she was dead when he got there, claims there was someone else hiding in the wardrobe who stole a heart shaped locket from her corpse. However, […]
Read more "I Knew Who You Were All Along: Black Angel"Two guys, neither of them very good detectives, stumble onto the same case from very different angles. Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) is a leg breaker for hire, often working for kids to keep pedos and creeps away from them and their friends. When Amelia Kuttner (Margaret Qualley) gets in touch with him to stop this […]
Read more "Angrier Birds: The Nice Guys"Bored with her nice, domestic homelife with snooze worthy parents, Charlie Newton (Teresa Wright) yearns for adventure. So, she decides to send a telegram to the uncle she was named after, her mother’s brother Charlie Oakley (Joseph Cotten), when lo and behold, there’s already a telegram waiting from that same party. Good old Uncle Charlie’s […]
Read more "The Clever Little Girl Who Knows Something: Shadow of a Doubt"There’s a killer stalking the backwoods. He creeps around, finding some likely targets—always amorous lovers in their cars—and then he strikes. The men he does away with a single gunshot, the women face worse: six or seven pistol rounds from close range, mutilation with a knife or scalpel, and then further degradations. Christiana Marelli (Mariangela […]
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