Crime Reviews

Crime

Friends and Family (2001)

Friends and Family (2001)

Stephen (Greg Lauren) and Danny (Christopher Gartin) are a totally open gay couple who met while they were both Army Rangers. (Isn’t that where true love usually happens?) Anyway,...

Linda
D-Tox (2002)

D-Tox (2002)

Eye See You is a dumb name for a movie. That’s all there is to it. A name like that brings two things to mind: Direct to Video and...

Jennifer
8 Women (8 Femmes) (2002)

8 Women (8 Femmes) (2002)

The setup goes something like this: Six women live in a mansion with a man named Marcel. There’s Gaby, his wife; Catherine, his younger daughter; Augustine, his sister-in-law; Mamy,...

Eric
Death to Smoochy (2002)

Death to Smoochy (2002)

Robin Williams plays Rainbow Randolph, a children’s television show host that has fallen from grace after getting caught taking a bribe from some supposed eager parents who want their...

Linda
American History X (1998)

American History X (1998)

The film introduces us to Derek Vinyard (the always excellent, and very buff Edward Norton) as he is let out of prison for a racially motivated murder of a...

Linda
Bangkok Dangerous (2000)

Bangkok Dangerous (2000)

After seeing a ridiculous amount of movies, it is always exciting when I by chance come across one that completely blows me away visually. It is astonishing that one...

Linda
The Legend of Rita (Die Stille nach dem Schuss) (2000)

The Legend of Rita (Die Stille nach dem Schuß) (2000)

The Legend of Rita is a fictionalized story of one such terrorist, a woman named Rita Vogt (Bibiana Beglau) who in the early 1970s robs banks with her boyfriend...

Linda
Hard Boiled (Lashou shentan) (1992)

Hard Boiled (Lashou shentan) (1992)

I knew about John Woo’s reputation… people have always said that his Hollywood flicks, like Face/Off and Mission: Impossible 2 just haven’t quite matched up with his earlier Hong...

Linda
Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Dancer in the Dark caused quite a stir at the Cannes Film Festival when it won the Palme D’Or for Best Picture, as well as the Best Actress award...

Linda
Croupier (1999)

Croupier (1999)

Croupier (n.) – One who collects and pays bets at a gaming table. Addiction (n.) – To surrender (oneself) habitually or compulsively to something. I have heard of different...

Linda
American Psycho (2000)

American Psycho (2000)

The night I rented American Psycho with a friend, we had just been talking about the last time a movie gave us nightmares. For me it had been the...

Linda