Category: Detective & Mystery
Hostel 3 (2011)
By: Christopher Young (Four Beers) - I am a fan of the first movie in the Hostel series. It was a gruesome and violent exercise that left you cringing each time another act was committed. Outside of horror movie fans, most of
Texas Killing Fields (2011)
By: CT Bland (Four Beers) - Beginning in the 1970s, dead girls started turning up in the mesquite-choked wetlands bordering the I-45 corridor between Galveston and Houston. Like the lost women of Juarez, they have remained a mystery, haunting southern Texas and
A Cat in Paris (2010)
By Salvador Garcia (Three Beers) - A Cat in Paris (Une Vie de Chat), follows the story of Zoe (Driane Zani), a Parisian girl whose father was killed by Victor Costa (Jean Benguigui), a gangster who’s after a priceless
One for the Money (2012)
By: Oberst Von Berauscht (Six Beers) – In the first adaptation of author Janet Evanovich’s bestselling mysteries, Katherine Heigl plays Stephanie Plum, a New Jersey native who, after a period of unemployment, finds herself strapped for cash. She reaches out
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)
By: Marielle (A Toast) - It’s standard these days to check and see whether a new release already existed in another form. Unless you’ve been hiding in your basement for the past few years (but not your mom’s basement
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
By: Marielle (Three Beers) - Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law return as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. The action picks up soon after we left them, with Watson set to marry his lovely British rose, while Holmes
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
By: C.T. Bland (Three Beers) - I continue my recent Carpenter kick until I am shut down by the editors… For a genre that rarely gets the respect it deserves (or gets more than it should, depending on who you ask), horror
Cop Out (2010)
By: Bill Arceneaux (Five Beers) - “Writing a nasty review for Cop Out is akin to bullying a retarded kid. All you’ve done is make fun of something that wasn’t doing you any harm and wanted only to give some cats
The Red Riding Trilogy (2009)
By: CT Bland (A Beer and a Half) - England’s Channel 4 imagines the north of England as an apocalyptic wasteland in this trio of films revolving around the 1970s economic recession and the murder spree of Peter Sutcliffe,
The Guard (2011)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Three Beers) - I ran across a copy of the Oscar Short Films 2005 DVD several years ago and after watching it the violent, smart-mouthed Irish short Six Shooter, directed by Martin McDonagh, really stood out.
