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Movie: Oldboy
(Original title: Oldeuboi) After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days. [more inside]
Movie: Chinjeolhan geumjassi / Lady Vengeance
After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Boksuneun naui geot / Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
A recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' friend's daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Zero Effect
Daryl Zero (Bill Pullman) is a private investigator, and with the help of his exasperated assistant Arlo (Ben Stiller) he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Although Daryl's a master investigator, his methods might be called frustrating. [more inside]
Movie: Soft & Quiet
Elementary school teacher Emily is organizing a mixer of like-minded women, but an altercation between a woman from Emily's past and the group leads to a volatile chain of events. (Note: this IMDb-supplied plot description is technically accurate but huge content warnings are advisable, which constitute spoilers. See more inside.) [more inside]
Movie: Ichi the Killer
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving. Trailer [more inside]
Podcast: Hunting Warhead: Hunting Warhead
How do you take down a criminal network that’s hidden in the shadows? How do you rescue child abuse victims who could be anywhere in the world? Hunting Warhead follows the journalists and police on a global mission to expose the darkest corners of the internet. What they discover shocks them. Host Daemon Fairless tracks down the investigators, survivors and criminals themselves. A co-production of CBC Podcasts and the Norwegian newspaper VG.
[All the content warnings. If you think you might be disturbed by this, you are probably right.]
Movie: Violent Night
[TRAILER] When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn't prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus (David Harbour) is on the grounds, and he's about to show why this Nick is no saint. [more inside]
Movie: Serpico
An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Sound of Noise
A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Bullets Over Broadway
[TRAILER] Struggling 1920s playwright David Shayne (John Cusack), having failed to secure financing for his latest work, reluctantly makes a deal with mob boss Nick Valenti (Joe Viterelli) : a Broadway debut with the chance to direct, as long as Nick's flibbertigibbet girlfriend, Olive (Jennifer Tilly), plays one of the lead roles. As Olive and star Helen Sinclair (Dianne Wiest) attempt to upstage each other, Olive's gangland bodyguard Cheech (Chazz Palminteri) starts suggesting changes to David's script. [more inside]
Movie: Last Looks
Charlie Waldo is an ex-LAPD superstar who left the force and now lives a life of simplicity and solitude deep in the woods. Alistair Pinch is an eccentric actor who spends his days drunk on the set of his TV show. When Pinch's wife is found dead, he is the prime suspect and Waldo is convinced to come out of retirement to investigate what happened. The case finds Waldo contending with gangsters, Hollywood executives and pre-school teachers, all in pursuit of clearing Pinch's name... or confirming his guilt. [more inside]
Mystery Science Theater 3000: DIABOLIK Rewatch Season 10, Ep 13
Re-rewatch! An amoral thief's goal in life seems to be to have sex around as many expensive things as possible with his girlfriend, while the world tries to catch him. Previously, and again. This is the last episode of the classic run of the show.
Movie: Murder on a Sunday Morning
Oscar-winning documentary that documents a murder trial in which a 15-year-old African-American is wrongfully accused of a 2000 murder in Jacksonville, Florida. [more inside]
Movie: The Trials of Darryl Hunt
A feature documentary about a brutal rape/murder case and a wrongly convicted man, Darryl Hunt, who spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. [more inside]
Movie: Diva
A young postman makes a secret recording of his favorite opera singer then attracts the attention of the mob when his tape gets mixed up with another incriminating the local police. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Cruising
A psychopath is scouring New York City gay clubs and viciously slaying homosexuals. Detective Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is ordered to don leather attire, hang at the city's S&M joints and keep an eye out for the killer. But as Steve becomes immersed in club hopping, he begins to identify with the subculture more than he expected. Meanwhile, Steve behaves distantly around his girlfriend, Nancy (Karen Allen), the police force's homophobia becomes apparent and the killer remains at large. [more inside]
Movie: Tell No One
A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's somehow alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death. [more inside]
Movie: Dom za vešanje (Home for Hanging)
Perhan is a Romani teenager with telekinetic powers. His passage from childhood to adulthood starts in a little village in Yugoslavia but derails into a criminal underworld of quick-cash petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves. [more inside]
Movie: Chicago
Nightclub sensation Velma (Catherine Zeta-Jones) murders her philandering husband, and Chicago's slickest lawyer, Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), is set to defend her. But when Roxie (Renée Zellweger) also winds up in prison, Billy takes on her case as well -- turning her into a media circus of headlines. Neither woman will be outdone in their fight against each other and the public for fame and celebrity. [more inside]
Movie: The Devil's Rejects
The sequel to House of 1000 Corpses... the Firefly family are ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men guns blazing ... yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding out in a backwater motel, the wanted siblings wait to rendezvous with their errant father, Captain Spaulding, killing whoever happens to stand in their way. [more inside]
Movie: God Told Me To
A cop investigates a string of murders committed by strangers who claim “God” told them to kill. But are the killers actually talking about the heavenly father? Or is someone pulling their strings? If Det. Nicholas (Tony Lo Bianco) really wants to know, he’ll have to descend into a netherworld of deranged faith and confront his own connection to a homicidal messiah with a perverse plan for the soul of mankind. [more inside]
Movie: The Thin Blue Line
One night in November 1976, after his car breaks down on a road outside Dallas, Randall Dale Adams accepts a ride from teenager David Harris. Harris is driving a stolen vehicle and, later that night, when Dallas police officer Robert Wood pulls the car over to check its headlights, he is shot and killed. A jury believes Adams is the killer, but Errol Morris' classic documentary explores the role of Harris' perjured testimony, misleading witness accounts and police misconduct in the verdict. [more inside]
Movie: Kind Hearts and Coronets
A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession. [more inside]
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Crime Reporting Season 9, Ep 25
This week... protests by schoolgirls in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest for violating hijab rules. And Now: Christopher Columbus: Kind of a Cool Guy (according to Fox faces). Main story: how crime is covered by the media, which is frequently sensationalist and leaves people with a sense that crime is a much bigger problem than it is, and can stoke fears of false problems like "rainbow fentanyl." It's often compounded by an unquestioning stance regarding police statements. On Youtube (26 minutes) And Now, finally: Another Installment of Local News Beat Poetry From NBC4 Washington's Pat Collins. [more inside]
Movie: Mad Detective
Inspector Ho seeks the help of the notorious, erratic Inspector Bun to investigate several murders committed with a missing cop's gun. [more inside]
Movie: Shoot the Piano Player
Charlie (Charles Aznavour) is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard (Jean-Jacques Aslanian) and Chico (Albert Remy), surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena (Marie Dubois), a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters (Claude Mansard, Daniel Boulanger) arrive, looking for his brothers. [more inside]
Movie: The Outfit
Aging master tailor Leonard (Mark Rylance) must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night. [more inside]
In the Dark: Bail's in Your Court Season 4, Ep 1
Murphy is having a tough time adjusting to life in prison with unexpected dangers looming large. Meanwhile, Max accompanies Leslie and Felix to an interesting afternoon with their grandmother.
The Cleaning Lady: The Cleaning Lady (2022) Season 1, Ep 0
A medical doctor seeking treatment for her son in the US works as an undocumented cleaner after her visa expires. After being caught witnessing a murder, she finds herself in deeper waters.
Pam & Tommy: Seattle Season 1, Ep 8
Everything changes when a cocky young Internet entrepreneur comes in to the picture. [more inside]
Pam & Tommy: Destroyer of Worlds Season 1, Ep 7
Tommy confronts Rand in the Dodger Stadium parking lot.
Juvenile Justice: Juvenile Justice Season 1, Ep 0
A prickly judge who despises juvenile criminals arrives at a juvenile court, where she takes on a complex role examining punishment for young offenders. [more inside]
Pam & Tommy: Pamela in Wonderland Season 1, Ep 6
A deposition pushes Pam to the emotional brink.
Inventing Anna: Limited Series from Shonda Rhimes Season 1, Ep 0
From the Netflix description: "Audacious entrepreneur or con artist? A journalist chases down the story of Anna Delvey, who convinced New York's elite she was a German heiress." [more inside]
Pam & Tommy: Uncle Jim and Aunt Susie in Duluth Season 1, Ep 5
The tape ends up in the hands of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione.
Book: Devil House by John Darnielle
A true-crime writer begins a new book project, centered on a grisly 1986 double murder in southern California, that leads him to question the ethics of his trade and to delve into the paradoxes of storytelling itself. [more inside]
Pam & Tommy: The Master Beta Season 1, Ep 4
Pam and Tommy resort to increasingly desperate measures to get their property back.
Book: Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
Razorblade Tears is set in rural southwest Virginia, the same as Cosby's previous book, the universally acclaimed Blacktop Wasteland. The story mines some of the same territory too, as our protagonist is a black ex-con who has turned his life around and is now a responsible family man, although he is estranged from his gay son who is happily married with a small child in Richmond. [more inside]
Pam & Tommy: Jane Fonda Season 1, Ep 3
Rand teams up with an old porn-world associate to shop the tape around town.
Pam & Tommy: I Love You, Tommy Season 1, Ep 2
Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee meet, get high, and get married...all in four days.
Pam & Tommy: Drilling and Pounding Season 1, Ep 1
Handyman Rand Gauthier seeks revenge on the celebrity client who stiffs him. [more inside]
The Afterparty: Yasper Season 1, Ep 3
Yasper explains how he tried to get Xavier to help him get his music career off the ground.
The Afterparty: Brett Season 1, Ep 2
In Brett's action-packed retelling of the night, he had one goal in attending the reunion: reconcile with his ex-wife to get their family back together.
Ozark: Ozark Season 4 - First Half (Episodes 1-7) Season 4, Ep 1
We binged all available season 4 episodes this week. Anybody else watching? Apparently, the rest of the season will be released after May 31, which will make the season eligible for Emmy awards in two years instead of just one. I
Movie: Kate
An assassin has 24 hours to get vengeance on her murderer before she dies. (Netflix)
Reservation Dogs: F*ckin' Rez Dogs Season 1, Ep 1
A year after the death of a friend, four Indigenous teens in small town Oklahoma turn to petty crime in style influenced by the last few decades of media. Trailer [youtube]. [more inside]
Podcast: Stuff The British Stole: A Tiger and a Scream
How a toy tiger became the symbol of a struggle between India and its former British colonisers [more inside]
The One: Full Season 1 Season 1, Ep 0
Love -- and lies -- spiral when a DNA researcher helps discover a way to find the perfect partner, and creates a bold new matchmaking service.
Book: Blacktop Wasteland
I picked this up at the library on Friday and finished it on Sunday. That may tell you everything you need to know. [more inside]