Hi, this is Barry and welcome to my site. This article, written by one of the readers on the site, Dark Intentions, explains the movie The Prestige with an alternate approach than the one I’ve taken in my explanation of The Prestige. This originally came in as a comment, and it was so in-depth that I … Read more
Hi, this is Barry and welcome to my website. Promising Young Woman is a 2020 crime drama written and directed by Emerald Fennell; this is her first full-length film. The story revolves around a 30-year-old medical school dropout who lives with her parents and cannot move past a traumatic incident in the past for which she seeks … Read more
Hi, this is Barry, and welcome to my site. Shimmer Lake is a 2017 crime drama on Netflix, a directorial debut for the screenplay writer Oren Uziel. The film is a brilliant dark comedy about a bank robbery gone wrong narrated in reverse order. The cast includes Benjamin Walker, Rainn Wilson, Stephanie Sigman, John Michael Higgins, Mark Rendall and … Read more
Thoroughbreds on Netflix is a 2017 crime drama directed by Cory Finley. The film revolves around two young girls getting together to hatch a plan to solve a most pressing domestic problem. Towards the climax, the plot takes a 180-degree turn to expose each of the characters for what they really are. The Thoroughbreds cast has Anya … Read more
The Lie is a 2018 crime drama directed by Veena Sud. An incident involving two girls leaves the parents appalled, and a father’s pursuit of the truth begins to wreck everything. The Lie’s cast has Mireille Enos, Peter Sarsgaard, Joey King, Cas Anvar and Devery Jacobs in the leading roles. I’m on the fence with … Read more
Hi, this is Barry, and welcome to my site. The Prestige needs no introduction to film lovers, specifically Nolan fans, as this 2006 star-studded masterpiece is arguably one of Nolan’s best films in terms of character development and non-linear storytelling. The movie is set in the era of the rivalry between Edison and Tesla. In … Read more
Hi, this is Barry and welcome to my site. While it is hard enough to produce a gripping movie shot in a variety of locations, a few films add a level of complexity to themselves by restricting the majority plot to precisely one spot. While this might drop the production budget, it really ups the … Read more
Blow The Man Down is a 2019 crime drama on Amazon set in a small town where two sisters, who have recently lost their mother, experience an unexpected turn of events when one of them has a run-in with a town thug. A series of murders expose the dark history of the town and the … Read more
A Day (or Ha-roo) is a 2017 Korean thriller directed by Cho Sun-ho that features time-looping. The film is centred on a doctor who is trapped in a time loop trying to save his daughter’s life. As the loops progress, he begins to understand the complexity and reason behind them and how it connects to … Read more
Rememory is a 2017 science-fiction crime mystery directed by Mark Palansky. The film is centred on the puzzling death of a scientist whose invention extracts any memory from a subject’s mind in its raw and unaltered form. A man with a dark secret helps uncover the person responsible for the scientist’s death. Rememory sees Peter Dinklage in … Read more
