Archive for the 'Mystery' Category

Gone Baby Gone (2007)

By admin on July 23, 2009

Summary:
The tough private eye Patrick Kenzie was raised in a poor and dangerous neighborhood of Boston, and works with his partner and girlfriend Angie Gennaro generally tracking missing losers in debt. When the four year-old Amanda McCready is abducted from her apartment, her aunt Beatrice ‘Bea’ McCready calls the police and the press, and the [...]

Hostile Makeover (2009)

By admin on July 15, 2009

Summary:
Lacey’s mother (Mary McDonnell) and sister stop by for a visit in this one to add to the fun, and the cameraman is played by Dominic Zamprogna, a Canadian actor who now is appearing on “General Hospital.” Though I figured this one out pretty quickly, it didn’t take away from the enjoyment. It’s a nicely [...]

S. Darko (2009)

By admin on July 13, 2009

Summary:
July, 1995, the time is out of joint. Two teen girls, Sam and Corey, have left Virginia for L.A. to start over. Sam’s brother has died and her family’s shattered; Corey’s too wild. They have car trouble in a small desert town, where Corey immediately starts her partying ways, where a meteorite strikes a windmill, [...]

Echelon Conspiracy (2009)

By admin on July 12, 2009

Summary:
At first, the strange phone messages promised great wealth. Soon, though, government agents pursue the young engineer receiving them around the world.
Details:
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Audio: English
Subtitles: None
Directed by: Greg Marcks
Starring: Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Martin Sheen, Sergey Gubanov

The Uninvited (2009)

By admin on July 12, 2009

Summary:
Anna, a beautiful teen girl (Emily Browning) is being released from a mental hospital. A therapist advises Anna to ‘finish things that she has started’, implying be productive and positive going forward. We learn Anna recently has lost her invalid mother in a fire, causing her breakdown. She returns to her New England mansion along [...]

The Horsemen (2009)

By admin on July 6, 2009

Summary:
Aidan Breslin is a bitter detective emotionally distanced from his two young sons following the untimely death of his devoted wife. While investigating a series of murders of rare violence, he discovers a terrifying link between himself and the suspects in a chain of murders that seem to be based on the Biblical prophecies concerning [...]

The Watch (2008)

By admin on July 6, 2009

Summary:
As the movie opens, the viewer sees a young girl in her bedroom at night. She hears a noise and, although frightened, goes to check it out. As she crosses her room, we see–at the same time as the little girl–a terrifying-looking woman, dressed in a white hospital gown, reaching out for the girl. The [...]

Skellig (2009)

By admin on June 22, 2009

Summary:
After moving with his family into a new home, Michael discovers a bird like angel in his old garage. His life is changed forever as the angel saves his sisters life who has been diagnosed with a heart problem at birth…
Details:
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery
Audio: English
Subtitles: None
Directed by: Annabel Jankel
Starring: Tim Roth, Kelly Macdonald, Bill Milner, [...]

State of Play (2009)

By admin on June 22, 2009

Summary:
A petty thief is gunned down in an alley and a Congressman’s assistant falls in front of a subway - two seemingly unrelated deaths. But not to wisecracking, brash newspaper reporter Cal McAffrey who spies a conspiracy waiting to be uncovered. With a turbulent past connected to the Congressman and the aid of ambitious young [...]

Angels and Demons (2009)

By admin on June 21, 2009

Summary:
Despite his notorious relationship with the Church, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is once again called upon to decipher the clues to a catastrophic conspiracy. The Pope has died, and before conclave can begin to determine his successor, the four preferitti (primary hopefuls for the papacy) are kidnapped. An ominous threat of their hourly demise, along [...]