shelleygilbertauthor
Joined Mar 2015
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The Ritual Killer, 2023, 1hr 33 min, Morgan Freeman, Cole Hauser. Good crime thriller. I protest! This movie received low ratings but I enjoyed it. This is a solid crime thriller. Good acting by Hauser. I loved the way the director told this story. The camera led me securely from scene to scene. I didn't lose my way. I didn't understand, though, the first few minutes of the film but then the writer pulled the story together and we could see how it all fit in. Maybe people didn't like the ending, which was different, interesting, albeit controversial. It certainly gave us viewers something to chew on.
Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders, both TV series. British light murder mysteries. If you liked Anthony Horowitz's Foyle's War, chances are you may like his current Magpie and Moonflower mysteries. These 2 separate TV shows are related, so see Magpie first, then Moonflower. Foyle's War was a great TV series. I loved it. Didn't love Magpie or Moonflower. Too Hallmark for sophisticated, hard-driving American taste. I didn't find Horowitz's mingling of fictional and non-fictional characters in the same story clever or entertaining. I didn't find Horowitz's mingling of past and present storylines in the same story amusing. If these nuisances were supposed to be plot twists, they didn't do it for me. It's hard to follow a brilliant murder mystery like Foyle's War. Maybe Horowitz needs to step up his mysteries to match our post-Covid harsher, more graphic taste in movies.
A Is For Acid, 2002, 2 hrs. Based on a true story. Martin Clunes is solid as the serial killer. I thoroughly enjoyed this British drama. I can't call it a thriller because it was not tense. This murder mystery can be seen at night before bedtime without getting nightmares. I really appreciated the way the director told this story with his camera in a clear, understandable and simple fashion. The camera went from point A to point B to point C, following the action of the story. Clunes was a murderer but not a menace. Pleasant, in fact. I loved the smart brother who saw right through this mysterious murderer.