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Jakob Conkling

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Con Air

Forget Bastille Day--July 14 is Con Air Day!

Reviewed Jul 14, 2021
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam. Genres: Action, Crime, Theatrical Release, Thriller
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The Girl Who Played with Fire

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Reviewed Jun 25, 2021
Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation. Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Theatrical Release, Thriller
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Reviewed Jun 18, 2021
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Theatrical Release, Thriller
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Zodiac

This is exactly why Dirty Harry carries a .44 Magnum and ...

Reviewed Jun 4, 2021
Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder. Genres: Crime, Mystery, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Dolores Claiborne

Sometimes being a bitch is all a podcaster has to hold onto

Reviewed Jun 1, 2021
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story. Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Theatrical Release
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Panic Room

Keep the change, ya filthy animals!

Reviewed May 28, 2021
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it. Genres: Crime, Drama, Theatrical Release, Thriller

The Game

The first rule of The Game is there are no rules to The Game

Reviewed May 21, 2021
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins. Genres: Drama, Mystery, Theatrical Release, Thriller
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Se7en

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Reviewed May 14, 2021
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case. Genres: Crime, Mystery, Theatrical Release, Thriller