Matt Scudder (Liam Neeson) is a former cop now a private eye. He is asked by a drug dealer to find the men who kidnapped his wife. It seems like they killed her even after he paid them. Scudder refuses. But the man later goes to see him and tells him how his wife was […]
The Fugitive
Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford), a surgeon in Chicago, arrives home one night to find his wife, Helen (Sela Ward), fatally wounded by a one-armed man. Although Kimble makes an effort to subdue the killer, the man escapes. The lack of evidence of a break-in, his being the beneficiary of Helen’s lucrative life insurance, and […]
Top of the Lake: The Series
Director: Jane Campion Year of Release: 2013 Top of the Lake begins with a mystery as Tui, a 12 year-old girl, walks chest deep into the freezing waters of a South Island lake in New Zealand. She is five months pregnant and won’t say who the father is. The girl’s family are an unsavory bunch. […]
Rope
Rope is actually one of Hitchcock’s experimental films masquerading as a standard Hollywood thriller. The plot of Rope is simple and based on a successful stage play: two young men (John Dall and Farley Granger) commit murder, more or less as an intellectual exercise. They hide the body in their large apartment, then throw a […]
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