The team behind the global phenomenon “The Da Vinci Code” returns for the highly anticipated “Angels & Demons,” based upon the bestselling novel by Dan Brown. Tom Hanks reprises his role as Harvard religious expert Robert Langdon, who once again finds that forces with ancient roots are willing to stop at nothing, even murder, to…
Category: Crime and Mystery Movies
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)
Tagline: Why would a man frame himself… For Murder? Fritz Lang’s last American film is brought back to life thanks to writer/director Peter Hyams (“Narrow Margin”) and stars Michael Douglas, Amber Tamblyn, and Jesse Metcalfe. Foresight Unlimited’s remake follows a similar story of a novelist’s investigation of a dirty district attorney that leads to a…
Crank: High Voltage (2009)
Tagline: He was dead… But he got better. In the 2006 action hit Crank, hitman Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) spent twenty-four hours in over-drive: fighting, killing, and keeping his adrenaline flowing at full-force to combat a deadly poison injected into his body. Now, in the high-octane sequel Crank: High Voltage, Chev has managed to survive-and…
Duplicity (2009)
She’s Ex-CIA. He’s Ex-MI6. Together They’re Stealing a Fortune Julia Roberts and Clive Owen star as spies-turned-corporate operatives in the midst of a clandestine love affair. When they find themselves on either side of an all-out corporate war, they discover the toughest part of the job is deciding how much to trust the one you…
Gamer (2009)
Tagline: Who’s playing you? “Gamer” is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online games: people play people… for keeps. Mind-control technology is widespread, and at the heart of the controversial games is its creator,…
Horsemen (2009)
Tagline: Four victims. Four painful secrets. “Horsemen” tells the story of hardened detective Aidan Breslin, (Dennis Quaid) who, having grown increasingly distant from his two young sons since the death of his wife, now finds himself thrust into an investigation of perverse serial killings rooted in the Biblical prophecy of the Four Horsemen of the…