Roy Bain (Larry Lamb) would rather spend his days painting than getting involved with old, bad influences like gangster-turned-industrialist Motherskille (Steven Berkoff). However, when Bain’s old flame Nicole (Nicola Cowper) is kidnapped by persons unknown, Motherskille hires the former gumshoe to take one last case. The investigation leads Bain to Pepperdine (Ingrid PItt) an exclusive […]
Read more "You Are What You Dream: Underworld (1985)"Lou (Kristen Stewart) works at the seedy Crater Gym in a small urban area of the American southwest. She keep the place relatively orderly, fends off desperate ex-girlfriends like Daisy (Anna Baryshnikov), and tries to be a guardian angel for her sister Beth (Jena Malone). However, you can only clean out so many toilets, watch […]
Read more "Falling in Love or Just Falling? Love Lies Bleeding (2024)"When word on the street journalist Anna (Patricia Charbonneau) gets the obscene phone call, she’s sure her uptight boyfriend Alex (Sam Freed) is letting his inhibitions slip, talking dirty, and arranging a meetup. She slips into a slinky number (sans underwear) and heads to the Polish Bar she wrote about, chats with the bartender, waits […]
Read more "Stop Calling, Stop Calling, I Don’t Wanna Hurt Anymore: Call Me (1988)"Summer Elswick (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) is a good saleswoman and potent realtor. Working for her boyfriend Will Grady (Justin Timberlake) and his mother Camille Grady (Frances Fisher) has opened up plenty of doors, netted her numerous sales, and unknown to just about everyone it has made her a target. So, it is a terrible […]
Read more "A Good Cop Does Not Mean One Insanely Dedicated to Their Job: Reptile (2023)"Wanting to get a few things off his chest before he heads into certain doom, Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) summons the one good cop he knows to his lousy room at the flea-bitten hotel where he’s knocking around. As soon as he gets there, Lieutenant Nulty (John Ireland) wants to know if Moose Malloy (Jack […]
Read more "Feeling Marlowe: Farewell, My Lovely (1975)"The burnt remains of a caretaker found within a half-completed building on the Carthage Gardens construction site serves as the catalyst for an investigation. Was it suicide? Well, the clothes were found nearby and there seems no evidence of foul play, but his colleagues do not believe it to be suicide. Strangest of all, the […]
Read more "Slow Burn: Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigations (2022)"Vicki Gaye (Cyd Charisse) is a dancer at a swinging Chicago nightspot. Her friend Ginger D’Amour (Barbara Lang) is seriously caught up on the idea of a man making all her wishes come true …. if only she could find the right one to fall for. Gaye is a lot more practical. She’ll take what […]
Read more "A Girl Ought to Get All She Can: Party Girl (1958)"When professional gambler Van Morgan (Dean Martin) comes back from the latrine to discover that Nick Evers (Roddy McDowall) has caught a tin horn cheating at cards, he knows the protocol: You run the tin horn out of town. Apparently, no one told Nick Evers that. He’s stoked his drunken comrades into lynching the poor […]
Read more "If That’s A Bible Read It; If It’s Not, Drop It: 5 Card Stud"Tony Zonis (Alexis Denisof) is a normal enough young guy. Loves racing a dirt bike all over hell and creation with his pal Toe Jam (William Brand), even though he gets a little reckless and cuts off his Dad or almost knocks over pretty strangers. At parties, he likes a good joke but he’s not […]
Read more "Ripped From the Headlines: Murder Story"When Paula Haller (Lizabeth Scott) returns to her home town of Chuckawalla, Nevada, she finds her way blocked by a couple of tough hombres observing the town from the one bridge entering it. These guys, Eddie Bendix (John Hodiak) and his pal Johnny Ryan (Wendell Corey), move their car for the frail, but not before […]
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