Thrillers
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Movie Review: Identity (2003)
From director James Mangold and writer Michael Cooney comes Identity, a movie that brilliantly blends the whodunit, psychological thriller, and mystery genres. The film boasts a stellar ensemble cast, including John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, Alfred Molina, Clea DuVall, and Rebecca De Mornay. The movie opens with a hearing on the eve of an Read more
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Movie Review: Raat Akeli Hai (2020)
Raat Akeli Hai (The Night is Lonely) is a riveting, intense Bollywood crime thriller and whodunit directed by Honey Trehan, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Radhika Apte. The plot follows the intense investigation of a rich man’s murder, which unearths long-buried secrets within his family. The movie opens with a car on a highway being forced Read more
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Movie Review: Jagratha (1989)
Mammootty reprises his role as the calm and collected Tamil Brahmin sleuth, Sethuraman Iyer. “Jagratha” is the second movie in the Malayalam CBI movie series and a sequel to “Oru CBI Diary Kurippu”. Like its predecessor, “Jagratha” is a slow-burn whodunit thriller that sharply focuses on the crime investigation without irrelevant subplots. Iyer returns in Read more
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Movie Review: The Killer (1989)
In my last post, I reviewed the classic action movie Hard Boiled, which combined the talents of Director John Woo and star thespian Chow Yun Fat. The Killer is another Hong Kong action movie classic that brings both of them together in an explosive plot. Both movies belong to what is often called the ‘Heroic Read more
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Movie Review: Hard Boiled (1992)
Who could have imagined, two decades ago, that a director and star from Hong Kong would be a worldwide inspiration for stylish gangster movies with gun fights? John Woo and Chow Yun Fat would forever change the world’s image of Hong Kong movies, which were mostly known for martial arts. In today’s post, we will Read more
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