A retired court investigator in Argentina who cannot forget a case gone cold twenty-five years earlier, reopens more unresolved issues than he intended while writing a novel without an ending. The story alternates between past and present beginning in 1974 Buenos Aires, during a dark political time. Court criminal investigator, Benjamin Esposito (Ricardo Darin) is intent on solving the rape and murder of a beautiful young woman, but his search...
The set up is a murder mystery where Henrik Vanger, patriarch of the wealthy and powerful Vanger clan, continues a forty year search of his favorite niece, harriet, who disappeared during a holiday gathering on the family island. Foul Play is suspected- the killer could be one of the tightly knit but mutually despised family members. a tenacious reporter is given the opportunity to try to solve the mystery and as Henrik puts it, he suspects no...
Every ten years or so, a film has to come out to shock the audience. In THE KILLER INSIDE ME, the gratuitous violence made everyone in the enormous Eccles Theatre squirm in their seats as acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom made the conscious decision to prolong excruciating long scenes of violent battering, showing Joyce's (Jessica Alba) face brutally beaten to a pulp and Amy's (Kate Hudson) ruthlessly, sadistic murder. The main character,...