Tag Archives: crime thriller

“Is it worth paying for a ticket?”: All the Money in the World (2017)

Rome, 1973. Masked men kidnap a teenage boy named John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer). His grandfather, Jean Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer), is the richest man in the world, a billionaire oil magnate, but he’s notoriously miserly. His favorite grandson’s abduction is not reason enough for him to part with any of his fortune. All […]

Good Time (2017): “You ever do time before?”

Motivated by an almost ferocious love for his intellectually disabled brother, Nick, and an explosive mix of desperation and thirst for a better life, the abrasive and fledgling criminal, Connie, involves his sibling in an ill-conceived bank robbery that swears to be a quick and easy job. Instead, things go utterly wrong, and Nick will […]

Blindspot 2015: Wild At Heart (1990)

Even though I’m a huge fan of the one and only David Lynch, before I started making a dent in my Blindspot Series list, I’d never seen Wild At Heart (1990) – a film which some may consider his most ‘straightforward’ or ‘mainstream’ story. I’m thoroughly used to the David Lynch we see in films […]