Sound of Freedom has become one of the most talked about films of 2023 and has been the centre of the culture war. The question is, is this attention justified? Tim Ballard (Jim Caviezel) is a Homeland Security Agent working in Calexico, California. When he arrests a paedophile, it leads the agent to stop a young […]
Tag: crime-thriller
Vigil Episode Three Review
The third episode of Vigil has a lot going on as it adds more suspects and conspiracies to the mystery involving HMS Vigil. DCI Silva believes that Craig Burke may have been poisoned after finding a strange substance on Burke’s hoodie and in his mouth. She also makes a lot of enemies since she has […]
Stillwater Review
Stillwater is the latest film by Spotlight director Tom McCarthy. His Marseille set film is part drama, part thriller as an American man tries to help prove his daughter’s innocence. Allison Baker (Abigail Breslin) is a young American woman who has spent five years in prison in Marseille for murder. She has another four years to serve. […]
Bad Times at the El Royale Review
Bad Times at the El Royale was Drew Goddard’s homage to film noir and ensemble casts. What he created was a film about people with deep, dark secrets coalescing at a single location. The El Royale Hotel is literally on the border of California and Nevada. On one faithful day in 1969, five people with […]
The Informer Review
The Informer is a grim and gritty crime thriller that features an ensemble cast and attempts to cover a number of storylines. Peter Koslow (Joel Kinnaman) is an FBI informer working undercover in the Polish mob in New York. Koslow gets put into an impossible situation when a cop gets killed during an operation. The […]
The Girl in the Spider’s Web Review
After a seven-year hiatus everyone’s favourite Goth hacker is back with Sony trying to reignite the Millennium series. Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) is a renounced hacker who uses her skills to hurt men who hurt women. She has become an underground figure who women see as a saviour. Lisbeth is approached by Frans Balder (Stephen Merchant), a British software engineer who made the […]
Winter Ridge Review
Winter Ridge is a low-budget crime drama shot in Devon, England that shows a lot of promise from the people involved. Ryan Barnes (Matt Hookings) is a young police detective in a small coastal town. His wife, Sara (Claudia Archer) has been in a coma for seven months after being hit by a drunk driver. […]