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Tag: mystery

  • A Haunting in Venice: Old School Haunts, Taunts and Hints With a Peppery Twist

    A Haunting in Venice: Old School Haunts, Taunts and Hints With a Peppery Twist

    Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes: A Haunting in Venice” is set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve and is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a…

  • Hypnotic:  Jedi Mind Tricks All Around

    Hypnotic: Jedi Mind Tricks All Around

    Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes: Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole investigating a series of reality-bending crimes where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Aided by Diana Cruz, a gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously…

  • Knock at the Cabin: Shyamalan Gets Less Shocking Just More Twisty

    Knock at the Cabin: Shyamalan Gets Less Shocking Just More Twisty

    Plot via IMDB; Wen, only seven years old, is vacationing with her two dads, Eric and Andrew, at a remote cabin. While catching grasshoppers, she is approached by a stranger named Leonard. Initially friendly, he explains that he needs Wen and her parents’ help to save the world. However, Wen becomes suspicious when three other…

  • Puss in Boots- The Last Wish: Knowing the Last Cat Life Is Not Really the Final Curtain Call

    Puss in Boots- The Last Wish: Knowing the Last Cat Life Is Not Really the Final Curtain Call

    Plot via IMDB: Sadly, Puss in Boots, the undaunted Spanish lover and hero, is now down to the last of his nine lives, a decade after the events of Puss in Boots (2011). And as if that weren’t enough, the unstoppable bounty hunter known as The Big Bad Wolf is after him. To restore all…

  • We Have a Ghost: Going Beyond Spooky

    We Have a Ghost: Going Beyond Spooky

    Plot via IMDB: Seeking a fresh start in Chicago, the Presley family moves into a dusty fixer-upper they soon realize comes with a catch: a ghost in the attic named Ernest (David Harbour). Despite Ernest’s attempts at scaring teenage son Kevin (Jahi Winston), the detached, music-obsessed teen soon finds a kindred spirit in this trapped…

  • Knives Out

    Knives Out

    Let the black dogs run wild, sharpen the knives for some real back stabbing, roundup the usual suspects, the mystery is about to begin. – The cardigan teen with his nose buried in his iPhone- he’s a suspect- murderous thoughts sprouting his blood-brain barrier. – The neglected son tethered to a high ranking, paying position…

  • “The Sisters Brothers”: Anti-Family on the High Plains

    “The Sisters Brothers”: Anti-Family on the High Plains

    With the gang together the movie wanders into amiable chat and a ton of metaphoric inaction, focusing on rumination over ruination to the film’s detriment.

  • “The Warning” Is a Memento of a Beautiful Mind

    “The Warning” Is a Memento of a Beautiful Mind

    It’s a Memento meets A Beautiful Mind thriller about a Basque man who discovers that there is a mathematical correlation between a convenience store shooting tragedy and the same spot’s past, present and future.

  • “Gemini” Is a Hard Dream to Leave

    “Gemini” Is a Hard Dream to Leave

    Gemini is all sheen, inversion and misdirection. It is as cool and chill as the city is hot and tempered. It is as hard to live its dream as it is hard to leave.