Archive for the ‘Detective Film’ Category
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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Ben Affleck’s adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel Gone, Baby, Gone stars Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie, a private investigator from working-class Boston who takes on a case involving a kidnapped girl. The girl’s aunt begs Patrick to take the case because he has connections to criminal Boston that the police do not. He agrees and along with his partner, Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan), they uncover a web of corruption that threatens the relationship between the two. Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman co-star as members of the Boston Police Department. |
| Also Known As: |
Gone Baby Gone |
| Genres: |
Thriller, Detective Film, |
| Running Time: |
115:00 |
| Actor List: |
Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, John Ashton, Amy Ryan, Amy Madigan, Titus Welliver, Michael Kenneth Williams, Edi Gathegi, Mark Margolis, Madeleine O’Brien, Slain, Trudi Goodman, Matthew Maher, Jill Quigg, Sean Malone, |
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
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Ben Affleck’s adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel Gone, Baby, Gone stars Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie, a private investigator from working-class Boston who takes on a case involving a kidnapped girl. The girl’s aunt begs Patrick to take the case because he has connections to criminal Boston that the police do not. He agrees and along with his partner, Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan), they uncover a web of corruption that threatens the relationship between the two. Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman co-star as members of the Boston Police Department. |
| Also Known As: |
Gone Baby Gone |
| Genres: |
Thriller, Detective Film, |
| Running Time: |
115:00 |
| Actor List: |
Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, John Ashton, Amy Ryan, Amy Madigan, Titus Welliver, Michael Kenneth Williams, Edi Gathegi, Mark Margolis, Madeleine O’Brien, Slain, Trudi Goodman, Matthew Maher, Jill Quigg, Sean Malone, |
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
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Mississippi Burning is an all-names-changed dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan’s murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Investigating the mysterious disappearances of the three activists are FBI agents Gene Hackman (older, wiser) and Willem Dafoe (younger, idealistic). A Southerner himself, Hackman charms and cajoles his way through the tight-lipped residents of a dusty Mississippi town while Dafoe acts upon the evidence gleaned by his partner. Hackman solves the case by exerting his influence upon beauty-parlor worker Frances McDormand, who wishes to exact revenge for the beatings inflicted upon her by her Klan-connected husband Brad Dourif. Many critics took the film to task for its implication that the Civil Rights movement might never have gained momentum without its white participants; nor were the critics happy that the FBI was shown to utilize tactics as brutal as the Klan’s. The title Mississippi Burning is certainly appropriate: nearly half the film is taken up with scenes of smoke and flame. |
| Also Known As: |
Mississippi Burning |
| Genres: |
Drama, Political Thriller, Detective Film, |
| Running Time: |
127:00 |
| Actor List: |
Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey, Gailard Sartain, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Rooker, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Badja Djola, Kevin Dunn, Lois Allen, Tobin Bell, Virginia Bennett, Dwight Boyd, Stephen Wesley Bridgewater, John Brook, Daniel Chapman, Marc Clement, Robert F. Colesberry, Stanley W. Collins, Zeke Davidson, Ralnardo Davis, Ron de Roxtra, Dan Desmond, Brenda Dunlap, James Eric, Robert Erickson, Frankie R. Faison, John P. Fertitta, Howard Feuer, Harry S. Franklin, Charles Franzen, Linda Fuller, Pat Funderburk, Ed Geldart, Barbara Gibson, Cullen Gilliland, Jake Gipson, Robert Glaudini, Gladys Greer, Mert Hatfield, George Isbell, Doug Jackson, Barry Davis Jim Sr., Dianne Lancaster, James Lloyd, Ken Magee, Tom Mason, George Mason, Ethel L. Mayes, James Arnold Mayes, Lannie Spann McBride, Darius McCrary, Mark Jeffrey Miller, Gary Moody, James F. Moore, Geoffrey Nauffts, Park Overall, Alisa R. Patrick, Bob Penny, Bernice Poindexter, Rev. Harry Quick, Judy Sasser, Paul Saveles, Larry Shuler, Jesse Merle Speaks, Tonea Stewart, Juliet Taylor, Simeon Teague, E.A. Thrall, Lou Walker, Rick Washburne, Daniel Winford, Georgia F. Wise, Billie Jean Young, Rick Zieff, Frederick Zollo, |
Posted in Detective Film, Drama, Political Thriller | No Comments »
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
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Ben Affleck’s adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel Gone, Baby, Gone stars Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie, a private investigator from working-class Boston who takes on a case involving a kidnapped girl. The girl’s aunt begs Patrick to take the case because he has connections to criminal Boston that the police do not. He agrees and along with his partner, Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan), they uncover a web of corruption that threatens the relationship between the two. Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman co-star as members of the Boston Police Department. |
| Also Known As: |
Gone Baby Gone |
| Genres: |
Thriller, Detective Film, |
| Running Time: |
115:00 |
| Actor List: |
Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, John Ashton, Amy Ryan, Amy Madigan, Titus Welliver, Michael Kenneth Williams, Edi Gathegi, Mark Margolis, Madeleine O’Brien, Slain, Trudi Goodman, Matthew Maher, Jill Quigg, Sean Malone, |
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
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Part high-tech spy thriller and part psychological study, Eye of the Beholder was Ewan McGregor’s first feature film following his mainstream breakthrough performance in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The Eye (Ewan McGregor) is an agent of the British Secret Service, equipped with the latest in high-tech crime fighting gadgetry and assisted by his indefatigable collegue, Hilary (k. d. lang). The Eye’s latest assignment is a surveillance project; the son of a well-known politician has been spending a great deal of money on someone, and they would like to know who and why. A little sleuthing reveals that the mysterious person taking the cash is a woman named Joanna (Ashley Judd), but the trail gets much stickier when the Eye witnesses Joanna pulling a knife and killing the politician’s son. Normally, he’d take the shortcut to putting her behind bars, but some time ago he lost contact with his daughter when his wife left him; Joanna reminds the Eye of his daughter, and he’s too fascinated with her to bring her to justice. The Eye now follows Joanna obsessively, and discovers that she’s also involved with a blind man (Patrick Bergin) and has a history of emotional instability from being abandoned by her father at a young age. Eye of the Beholder was directed by Stephan Elliott, best known for the comedy The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. |
| Also Known As: |
Eye of the Beholder |
| Genres: |
Thriller, Detective Film, Psychological Thriller, |
| Running Time: |
107:00 |
| Actor List: |
Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, Patrick Bergin, k.d. lang, Jason Priestley, Genevive Bujold, Jason Baerg, Howard Bilerman, Maria Bircher, Bob Brewster, Anne-Marie Brown, Kaitlin Brown, Al Clark, Carole Collin, Carl Crevier, Amanda Davis, Leonard Farlinger, Lisa Forget, Gayle Garfinkle, Garth Gilker, Dr. Erwin Goldberg, James Hieminga, Erik Johnson, Don Jordan, Tom Karle, Una Kay, Philip Le Maistre, Stephane Levasseur, Josa Maule, Steven McCarthy, Vera Miller, Louis Negin, David Nerman, Michel Perron, Charles Powell, Donovan Reiter, Maria Revelins, Cara Reynolds, Nadia Rona, Stephanie Sbrega, Merlee Shapiro, Sam Stone, Michelle Sweeney, Janine Theriault, Al Vandecruys, Mauro Venditelli, Vlasta Vrana, Russell Yuen, |
Posted in Detective Film, Psychological Thriller, Thriller | No Comments »
Friday, June 5th, 2009
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Washington Irving’s tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman gets a few new twists in a screen adaptation directed by Tim Burton. In this version, Ichabod (Johnny Depp) is a New York City detective whose unorthodox techniques and penchant for gadgets make him unpopular with is colleagues. He is sent to the remote town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of bizarre murders, in which a number of people have been found dead in the woods, with their heads cut off. Local legend has it that a Hessian ghost rides through the woods on horseback, lopping off the heads of the unsuspecting and unbelieving. Ichabod refuses to believe in this legend, convinced that there must be a logical explanation for the murders. In time, Ichabod becomes smitten with a local lass, Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci), who is the sweetheart of the burly Brom Bones (Casper Van Dien), and he becomes determined to capture the murderer to prove his bravery and win her heart. Christopher Walken, Jeffrey Jones, and Christopher Lee highlight the supporting cast; Lee’s appearance is particularly apt, since Burton has cited the Hammer films of the 1960s as a major influence in making this film. Andrew Kevin Walker and Tom Stoppard contributed to the screenplay. |
| Also Known As: |
Sleepy Hollow |
| Genres: |
Horror, Costume Horror, Gothic Film, Detective Film, |
| Running Time: |
105:00 |
| Actor List: |
Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones, Christopher Lee, Richard Griffiths, Ian McDiarmid, Michael Gough, Christopher Walken, Marc Pickering, Lisa Marie, Steven Waddington, Claire Skinner, Alun Armstrong, Mark Spalding, Jessica Oyelowo, Ray Park, Peter Guinness, Orlando Seale, |
Posted in Costume Horror, Detective Film, Gothic Film, Horror | No Comments »