Korean director Bong Joon Ho became one of Hollywood's fave auteurs when Parasite conquered the Oscars in 2020, but he had been putting out bangers long before then. Director Bong's 2003 masterpiece, Memories of Murder, is one of the greatest mystery thrillers ever made. The film looks back at the hunt for a serial killer in rural 1980s South...
Nicole Kidman's new movie now streaming on Amazon, Holland, would have been a lot better if it had actually filmed in the real Holland, Michigan. Nevertheless, as a Michigander myself, I was charmed by this mystery thriller, starring Kidman a school teacher whose quiet life in Holland—a Michigan town known for its Dutch heritage and annual Tulip ...
The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece on PBS knows exactly what it is and that is the coziest of cozy murder mystery shows. Set in the affluent town of Marlow, the series opens with retired archeologist Judith Potts (Samantha Bond) overhearing something dreadful during a swim in a tributary. Her neighbor has been shot! When the police drag their...
Netflix's The Perfect Couple whisks viewers away to the idyllic Nantucket, where world-famous mystery writer Greer Garrison Winbury (Nicole Kidman) is begrudgingly planning her son Benji's (Billy Howle) impending nuptials to zoologist Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson). However, Greer's best laid plans go awry when a dead body is discovered the morning of...
Netflix's latest YA offering A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is tailor-made to hook you from the jump. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder follows good girl Pippa "Pip" Fitz-Amobi (Emma Myers) as she digs into a murder mystery that's held her small English hometown in a chokehold for years. While everyone ...
Apple TV+'s latest star-studded TV show is Lady in the Lake, an ambitious adaptation of Laura Lippman's novel of the same name starring Natalie Portman, Moses Ingram, Mikey Madison, and David Corenswet. The series follows two very different heroines in 1969 Baltimore. Maddie Morgenstern (Natalie Portman) is a disaffected Jewish housewife who is...
Before you head out to see Twisters this weekend, acquaint yourself with star Daisy Edgar-Jones in the 2022 thriller-mystery Where the Crawdads Sing, based on Delia Owens’ book of the same name. Edgar-Jones plays Kya, a young woman who was abandoned by her entire family as a girl and forced to raise herself in the perilous North Carolina...