The Little Things (2021)
The Little Things finds John Lee Hancock directing a mystery-thriller screenplay he’s kicked around for a few decades. The origin of the story began in 1992 after Steven Spielberg had read the script for...
Category: Mystery
Knives Out (2019)
Genre-hopping writer-director Rian Johnson has done a neo-noir teen flick in Brick, a family crime dramedy in The Brothers Bloom, a twisty time-travel sci-fi excursion in Looper. More famously, he also ushered in the...
Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989)
Who’s Harry Crumb? is a ridiculous slapstick comedy in the vein of the later Pink Panther films, where most of the laughs come from how sophomoric the makers of the film are willing to go to...
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
The biggest novelty of Curse of the Pink Panther (which was the original title of 1978’s Revenge of the Pink Panther before they changed it) is that it attempts to introduce us to a replacement...
Fletch Lives (1989)
The original sequel to 1985’s hit comedy, Fletch, was originally meant to be based on the sixth of Gregory McDonald’s series of “Fletch” novels, “Fletch and the Man Who”, with a plot that would involve...
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Peter Sellers, who played the bumbling yet highly effective Inspector Clouseau, died on July 24, 1980, and to whom Trail of the Pink Panther, which was released 2.5 years after his death, would be dedicated....
The Lighthouse (2019)
The premise of The Lighthouse is relatively simple: two men isolated indefinitely at a rocky island lighthouse some distance from the coast of New England go mad over time. If you really want to simplify...
Greta (2018)
Although the film is called Greta (originally titled, The Widow), Chloe Grace Moretz’s character, a young waitress named Frances McCullen, is the one we follow most, newly relocated to New York City from Boston...
Searching (2018)
Searching is a somber suspense-thriller that plays like a mix of a couple of other social media-savvy films like Catfish, Open Windows, and Unfriended, seeking to throw audiences based on the fact that much of our...
The Happytime Murders (2018)
Bill Barretta voices the top puppet character known as disgraced burnout Los Angeles-based private investigator Phil Phillips, who has to get to the bottom of a series of murders among the stars of a...