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iMurders (2008)

No one is safe in cyberspace

Filmmaker(s): Robbie Bryan

A mysterious love triangle leads to a tragic shooting. Months later, eight members of a MySpace-esque chat room are being gruesomely murdered in the privacy of their own homes.

28 Oct iMurders (2008)

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Kernel Panic know what? This is pretty incompetent in a few ways, but the incompetence works for it. This is a murder mystery of the old school. You are introduced to characters. Murders are being committed. Clues are placed around. Many suspects and many motives are...

Published October 28, 2022

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Tagged: 2000s, f2008, p2010

Gumnaam (1965)

And then there were none...

Filmmaker(s): Raja Nawathe

Mystery

Thriller

Eight people are trapped on an island when their plane abandons them. They find a large mansion whose butler is expecting them. Then one by one, they die...

09 Oct Gumnaam (1965)

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Indians is a famously popular film in India. The composition is simple: a story that gives the film an existence, and a series of Bollywood musical numbers. I cannot recall ever experiencing such dissonance, because I am coming at the from a background in Christie....

Published October 9, 2022

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Tagged: 1960s, f1965, p2022

The White Cockatoo (1935)

Try to pick the killer, Try to pick the next victim!

Filmmaker(s): Alan Crosland

Mystery

In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.

02 Oct The White Cockatoo (1935)

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Bible Verses pride myself on being able to say something both useful and positive about a film, a discipline a wise man taught as a practice for the more useful challenge with souls we meet. The dynamics overlap in narratives that each carry. I found it...

Published October 2, 2022

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Tagged: 1930s, f1935, p2022

Trents Last Case (1952)

A Woman's Kiss That Killed

Filmmaker(s): Herbert Wilcox

Mystery

When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes highly interested in the young widow and the dead man's private secretary.

30 Sep Trents Last Case (1952)

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Hidden should be a superb movie in the mystery tradition. It has a truly complex plot that has several reveals, and a suitably Holmes-like detective. The problem is that we see the detective working things out like a Poirot would. But we learn absolutely nothing...

Published September 30, 2022

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Tagged: 1950s, f1952, p2022

The Man Without a Map (1968)

Filmmaker(s): Hiroshi Teshigahara

Mystery

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.

30 Sep The Man Without a Map (1968)

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Life as Navigation has an anchor when they enter a film. With a little exposure to world cinema, that anchor for each film is rooted in the tradition you select from that culture. This is a personal choice, made long before you encounter the film....

Published September 30, 2022

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Tagged: 1960s, f1968, p2022

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: King of Blackmailers (1980)

Filmmaker(s): Igor Maslennikov

Mycroft Holmes hands Sherlock Holmes the case of the Master Blackmailer.

19 Sep The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: King of Blackmailers (1980)

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Europe in Disguise is a Russian TV production, closely following the Conan Doyle stories. Comments that I have seen accept it as a good version, mostly on the basis of the characterisations. But I find it dreadful, and credit two influences. The first is my understanding...

Published September 19, 2022

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Tagged: 1980s, f1980, p2022

And Then There Were None (1945)

Filmmaker(s): René Clair

Crime

Drama

Mystery

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.

18 Sep And Then There Were None (1945)

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Dame Agatha's Dead has been as profoundly influential in film as Shakespeare. We can't take too lightly how often we see the effects of her experiments in tweaking the identity of the reader/ viewer. This is one of her most interesting constructions: presented quite differently...

Published September 18, 2022

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Tagged: 1940s, f1945, p2005

Sparkling Cyanide (2003)

Filmmaker(s): Tristram Powell

Mystery

Crime

Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.

11 Sep Sparkling Cyanide (2003)

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Useless Cushions could have put up with the silly detectives and their dated witticisms. The similarly dated use of technology… I could have overlooked the cheapness throughout, if they had only preserved the core element of a Christie mystery: we have to be surprised in...

Published September 11, 2022

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Ten Little Indians (1989)

Filmmaker(s): Alan Birkinshaw

Crime

Thriller

Mystery

An unknown judge invites a guilty governess and others to a 1930s safari, for justice one by one.

11 Sep Ten Little Indians (1989)

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Camp think making a Christie film must be hard, because so seldom does it work. For me, the metric is very simple. We need to be allowed to speculate against multiple impossibilities. Many folks will be exposed for hidden, possibly relevant qualities. What makes Christie work...

Published September 11, 2022

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Tagged: 1980s, f1989, p2022

In the Cut (2003)

Everything you know about desire is dead wrong.

Filmmaker(s): Jane Campion

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, an English teacher living in New York City — as if to test the limits of her own safety —propels herself into an impossibly risky sexual liaison with a police detective.

23 May In the Cut (2003)

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In There Campion has a tenderness that is so attractive that if it did not come with warnings, I would build a romantic dreamworld around it. Because that is what we do with deep soft urges. Her films seem always to be about the edges,...

Published May 23, 2022

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Tagged: 2000s, f2003, p2009