Payback
Synopsis: Get Ready to Root for the Bad Guy. Mel Gibson “gives one of his strongest performances,” teaming with his co-screenwriter Brian Helgeland and a superb supporting cast to ignite […]
Category Archives: Literature
Béru et ces dames
Synopsis: In this comedy-tinged crime drama, detective San Antonio and his sidekick Beru are hot on the trail of some morphine thieves. The crooks raid another home and mistakenly grab […]
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter
Summary: Darwyn Cooke, the Eisner-Award-winning writer/artist of such classics as DC: The New Frontier, Selina’s Big Score, and The Spirit, now sets his artistic sights on bringing to life one […]
Fantômas
Synopsis: Mysterious Fantomas is terrorizing France. Inspector Juve, with the help of a reporter called Fandor and a lovely photographer, decides to put an end to the criminal’s operations. But […]
Point Blank
Synopsis: They double-crossed Walker, took his $93,000 cut of the heist and left him for dead, but they didn’t finish the job. Big mistake. He – someday, somehow – is […]
Sale temps pour les mouches
Synopsis: San Antonio is a suave French police inspector who pretends to turn criminal in order to infiltrate a gang lead by Eastern block scientists. Highlights include two parachuting enemies […]
Pas de roses pour OSS 117
Synopsis: In Rome, OSS 117 is instructed to dismantle an international assassins guild. He assumes the identity of William Chandler, an extremely dangerous individual, in order to infiltrate the organisation, […]
The Surrender
Summary: Few women do it and even fewer will admit to it. But in Toni Bentley’s daring and intimate memoir, The Surrender, she pulls the sheets back on an erotic […]
Få meg på, for faen
Synopsis: Alma (Helene Bergsholm), 15, is consumed by out-of-control hormones and fantasizes about almost every male she meets. At home, she racks up huge phone bills by calling sex hot […]
Desert Hearts
Synopsis: A blockbuster debut feature from director Donna Deitch (Criminal Passion), this “refreshingly lively and poignant” (The Hollywood Reporter) drama, written for the screen by Natalie Cooper, is based on […]
Atout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117
Synopsis: Agent OSS 117 tries to stop a group of terrorists who plan to bomb an unnamed Far East country in this routine spy story. The villains demand money from […]
Shoplifter
Summary: Corrina Park used to have big plans. Studying English literature in college, she imagined writing a successful novel and leading the idealized life of an author. But she’s been […]
Il boss
Synopsis: Based largely on real people and actual events, Fernando Di Leo’s action-packed film – the final part of his Milieu Trilogy – is his boldest commentary on corruption and […]
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