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Felony-focused film reviews; fictional movies and true crime documentaries depicting real-life stories or inspired by them.

Danger Danger(Angry Mob) Song Analysis
Now for the analysis of Angry Mob from the movie My Little Pony: The Next Generation. Song link The context of the song: in the movie, the unicorns, earth ponies, and pegasi are all separated and afraid of each other. A unicorn comes to this earth pony town and the sheriff leaves to deal with the earth pony who left with the unicorn of her own free will. This leaves the underqualified entitled deputy Sprout to be in charge. This song is his start on turning the town into a militarized dictatorship in a matter of days.
By Ben Ray 4 years ago in Criminal
Martin Scorcese’s Hitchcockian ‘Cape Fear’
Cape Fear is a Hitchcock film without Hitchcock. Who better to make it than Martin Scorcese, the master of all things bloody and dark? It’s the kind of film that theaters were made for.
By MovieBabble4 years ago in Criminal
Movie Review: 12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumets' court drama in 1957 in New York City features twelve middle-aged white men discussing an open and closed murder case in a small claustrophobic courtroom. 12 Angry Men (1957) "12 Angry Men" is a heartwarming, shocking and compelling investigation into a separate group of twelve judges, all men, middle-aged, white, and middle, who came together to discuss and hear the facts of an open and closed murder case.
By Akshata Kharel4 years ago in Criminal
‘The Many Saints of Newark’: Remember the Little Moments
Due to the pandemic, a lot of people have ventured into the streaming abyss, picking up on shows they’ve never finished or starting shows that have been on their radar for quite some time. One show, in particular, has seen a resurgence of popularity: HBO’s, one and only, The Sopranos.
By MovieBabble5 years ago in Criminal
Review of 'The Many Saints of Newark'
After all of these years -- 21 or 14, depending on whether you count from the beginning or the end -- The Sopranos is arguably still the best series ever on any kind of television screen. What's beyond argument is that The Sopranos started it all, and opened the gates, paved the way, for all the great television that ensued on cable and streaming screens.
By Paul Levinson5 years ago in Criminal
Composition Of A Dream
Criminal and degenerate conduct is described by socially unfortunate personal conduct standards and activities that undermine others and social ethics. The film chose for investigation, 'Memorial for a Dream by Darren Aronofsky, portrays the freak conduct of four heroes confronted with troublesome life circumstances and issues. The principal characters, Sara and her child Harry Goldfarb, Marion Silver, and Tyrone display socially irrefutable standards of conduct brought about by various life conditions, class areas, and individual qualities. The paper aims to dissect and depict their behavior utilizing two criminological speculations, anomie hypothesis or strain hypothesis (Robert Merton) and struggle hypothesis.
By Rejoco5 years ago in Criminal
‘The Gateway’: Shea Whigham and Bruce Dern Make This Lowly Neo-Noir Thriller Worth Your Time
I’ll be honest, I only watched this film to see the underutilized Shea Whigham in a lead role. I’ve been a big fan of him ever since his supporting turn in the glorious HBO crime saga Boardwalk Empire. But on the cinematic screen, Whigham usually shows up in a bit part — though in some cases, like in Jon Watt’s Cop Car, Whigham still manages to be memorable.
By MovieBabble5 years ago in Criminal
Review of 'The Voyeurs'
We caught The Voyeurs -- not real people, the movie that just went up on Amazon Prime Video -- and enjoyed it. It's been compared by critics -- unfavorably, of course -- to Hitchcock's 1954 masterful Rear Window, but it's still worth watching, looking through, choose your metaphor.
By Paul Levinson5 years ago in Criminal
Review of 'Sweet Girl'
Once again: panned by myopic critics, liked by me. Just to be clear: I don't think Sweet Girl is a great movie. But I thought it was pretty good.
By Paul Levinson5 years ago in Criminal
John And The Hole: Why You Probably Didn't Get It Or Like It
In order to understand and appreciate Pascual Sisto's 2021 indie-thriller, John And The Hole, you need to be able to understand, and perhaps remember, what it feels like to be an adolescent. This is no "scary movie"- this is a horrifying movie: This is a film about the undefined void between childhood and adulthood; The misunderstood and often misrepresented time that breeds countless stories of shocked and disgruntled parents who can't conceive of why their perfect little teenager is hitting rock bottom.
By Bonnie Joy Sludikoff5 years ago in Criminal
Movie Review: 'Ted Bundy American Boogeyman'
In my nearly 20 years of writing about the movies I have seen some disreputable filmmakers and Daniel Farrands, the director of such non-classics as The Haunting of Sharon Tate and The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, is among the most disreputable of them all. Targeting some of the most well known true crime stories in American history, Farrands doesn’t seek to shine a light on the gravest of evil, he seeks to exploit it as if it were just another horror story.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Criminal
Straight Down the Line: Into Film Noir
One of film noir’s most dynamic openings plays out on a moonlit veranda in Singapore in William Wyler’s 1940 classic The Letter. It took Wyler thirty-three takes, exhausting his star, Bette Davis. But it's magic.
By Marie Wilson5 years ago in Criminal