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The premise of a murder mystery with an unreliable narrator is well - trodden territory at this point (The Girl on the Train, In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and Sharp Objects all come to mind) but there were at least two moments where I let out an audible gasp over an unforeseen plot twist... so I guess I'm saying if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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For a more social stay, check out the inn's Art of A Vermont Winter event series, which includes furniture - making workshops with local woodworker Thomas Shackleton and murder mystery weekends.
It flattered those who could understand the long passages in Latin, or who noticed the glittery filaments of intertextuality woven into its design, or who understood the late - medieval tension between realist and nominalist metaphysics; but it also entertained those who were simply interested in a colorful murder mystery with an unusual setting and who did not mind skipping the Latin bits altogether.
Clue — the murder mystery game where you play to find out that Professor Plum committed the murder with a lead pipe in the conservatory — is already one of the best mainstream board games ever created, and now, according to CNet, it's getting a charming new edition starring the Golden Girls.
In one of the later season's of Foyle's War, (a British crime drama set in the 1940's, which I highly recommend, by the way, if you enjoy murder mysteries and period wartime dramas) there was an episode where the character of Sam is seen discussing shoes with a coworker.
I have been binge - watching a bunch of murder mystery series, including Poirot, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (love the series even more than the books and am obsessed with it but MY GOD KISS HER ALREADY, JACK ROBINSmurder mystery series, including Poirot, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (love the series even more than the books and am obsessed with it but MY GOD KISS HER ALREADY, JACK ROBINSMurder Mysteries (love the series even more than the books and am obsessed with it but MY GOD KISS HER ALREADY, JACK ROBINSON!!!)
Fortunately, to spice things up, actor and writer Abel Horwitz has devised an ingenious event that combines elements of a murder mystery theater with speed dating.
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Murphy soon finds himself embroiled in a mystery of mayhem, music and murder surrounding an obscure 1970 ′ s rock record with a chance to finally «shoot his weapon»!
Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein, Game Night follows a group of friends (Jason Bateman's Max, Rachel McAdams» Annie, Billy Magnussen's Ryan, Sharon Horgan's Sarah, Lamorne Morris» Kevin, and Kylie Bunbury's Michelle) as they agree to participate in an interactive murder mystery arranged by Kyle Chandler's Brooks - with violence and mayhem ensuing after it becomes clear that some of the evening's occurrences aren't part of the planned game.
True to form, Brooks bigfoots the weekly game night with an elaborate staging of a faux kidnapping and murder mystery, involving hired actors, fake blood and a race to see which of the three couples involved can crack the case first.
Game Night has a few going for it — one helluva cast (Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Billy Magnusson, Kyle Chandler, Sharon Horgan, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Danny Huston, Michael C. Hall, Chelsea Peretti, Camille Chen and more); an opening meet cute that is original and clever; the establishment of a weekly get together for a games night; the sad sack neighbor who used to be part of the group (and is also a cop with a cute dog), and, finally, the idea that what starts out as a special murder mystery game night turns out to be the real thing — but no knows it.
Framed for the murder of her husband, Libby Parsons (Judd) survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her — finding her son and solving the mystery that destroyed her...
Alda later continued to make his mark on audiences with his more accustomed nice - guy portrayals in films such as Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Flirting With Disaster (1996), and The Object of My Affection (19with his more accustomed nice - guy portrayals in films such as Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Flirting With Disaster (1996), and The Object of My Affection (19With Disaster (1996), and The Object of My Affection (1998).
It introduces itself as a noir murder mystery, but seamlessly veers into a story of man in love with a dancer, looking for redemption in his twilight.
This kind of misdirection comes pretty standard with murder mysteries, but Swanberg has fun tweaking the formula to contain an element of self - awareness which results in a plot twist ending.
We begin with a compelling love story that evolves into a dissection of marriage in all its facets, a thrilling possible - murder mystery, a scathing indictment of American national media and... well to go much further I'd wade into spoiler territory and honestly, this film is best experienced without them.
Adapted straight from Agatha Christie's novel, actor / filmmaker Kenneth Branagh directs this updated version of the murder mystery, with a very impressive cast: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penélope Cruz, Daisy Ridley, Josh Gad, Willem Dafoe, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Tom Bateman, Lucy Boynton, Olivia Colman, Miranda Raison, and Derek Jacobi.
The duo star as «Max and Annie, whose weekly couples game night takes a turn when they divert from their standard Pictionary and charades to play a game of murder mystery — complete with fake thugs and faux federal agents.
An underrated, compellingly uncharacteristic film in Bigelow's career, The Weight of Water suffers from over-ambition, juxtaposing a period murder mystery with a rarefied drama of sexual ennui and shortchanging both in the process.
Deliver a murder mystery plot of the quality you'd find in a Scooby - Doo cartoon, along with a dark serious revenge story.
That's not the only film that Disturbia lifts ideas from; it also borrows from other movies that have taken Rear Window's core element of mystery and murder in the house of the neighbor next door, most notably in The «burbs and Body Double, with its emphasis on sexiness and some darkly disturbing subject matter that keeps the sights titillating and the atmosphere creepy.
It also teases us with a whodunit style murder mystery where each of the colourful cast of characters are hinted at being Father James» possible killer.
Sure, it has its fair share of scary moments, but it seems much more preoccupied with being either a thriller, a comedy or even a murder mystery story.
The new 10 - episode mystery series Gracepoint (airing Thursdays) at least has a solid pedigree, remaking last summer's acclaimed eight - part Broadchurch from BBC America, even starring David Tennant in the same role (albeit with an off - putting attempt at an American accent) as a detective newly arrived in a coastal California town, where the murder of a young boy rocks the local residents to the core — including his resentful partner (Breaking Bad's Anna Gunn)-- turning neighbor against neighbor until a shattering denouement.
A city with a past as sordid as New Orleans is the perfect setting for a noir murder mystery, and the game still does an excellent job of capturing the Big Easy's gritty charm.
With a fistful of Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Actor), a couple of sequels and a twenty - years - later remake and spin - off TV series, this adaptation of John Ball's lean thriller obviously qualifies as more than just another small town murder mystery.
This isn't a murder mystery or a procedural or even a revenge thriller, which may frustrate audiences when the ending comes, but let them be frustrated because it's the perfect ending to a story that never lets anyone off the hook too easily, leaves characters asking themselves what to do from there, and holds no easy resolutions, just a tinge of hope that things need to get better, no matter if they go through with their final decision or not.
What remains is a deeply absorbing, highly addictive murder mystery matched with a carefully considered psychological work - up of an elite community.
Many of their films have had flirtations with more genre - inclined filmmaking (The Son, for one, veers into thriller territory), but The Unknown Girl is an outright murder mystery.
Though a PG - 13 slasher film is like the equivalent of sex with clothes on, «Happy Death Day» gets around that hurdle by being less of a straight - up slasher and more of a darkly comedic murder - mystery that just so happens to involve a temporal loop and a knife - wielding masked killer.
Still, the change isn't entirely surprising: FX has been much more forthcoming in recent months with casting news for Versace than it has been for Katrina, with Penelope Cruz, Ricky Martin, Max Greenfield, and Édgar Ramírez all signing on for its blend of fashion and murder mystery.
The group initially thinks that the scenario is part of an elaborate murder - mystery - game, but they soon realize that they have gotten tied up with some not - so - friendly people.
Paul Schrader blends lethargic self - referentiality with anemic political jabs in The Walker, a murky, lead - footed character study - cum - murder mystery concerning Carter Page III (Woody Harrelson), a D.C. dandy who spends his days and nights escorting politicos» wives around town and dishing dirt with them over games of canasta.
After his longest run (yet) of intense dramas, Allen returns to something that is brightly comedic with Mahattan Murder Mystery.
It's only in its overwritten second act that Death Spa gets bogged down, spending time with a pair of cynical police detectives, a paranormal investigator, and Michael's lawyer, and developing half - assed plot threads in the corresponding genres of murder mystery, ghost story, and corporate thriller.
Clouzot, one of the kings of French noir, grips and thrills and teases us with this dark - hued, very cynical and very smart murder mystery about a suave inspector (Pierre Fresnay of «Grand Illusion») pursuing a serial killer.
A bright and beautiful small town girl named Charlotte «Charlie» Newton (Teresa Wright) is bored, bored with her well - ordered home in her pretty Norman Rockwellish little city of Santa Rosa, Calif., — where trees line the sunlit streets, everyone goes to church on Sunday, and lots of them read murder mysteries at night.
Like an elongated episode of Father Ted with the intellectual rigour of Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest, director John Michael McDonagh's extraordinary film presents deep existential torment under the guise of a parochial murder mystery.
It is the Oedipus / identity trajectory, complete with a blasted plague land, a murder, its thinly veiled culprit (noir is typically invested in process, not mystery), the appearance of a femme fatale, and a solution involving mortal self - knowledge.
Bored with her well - ordered home in her Norman Rockwellish little city of Santa Rosa, Calif., — where trees line the sunlit streets, everyone goes to church on Sunday and lots of them read murder mysteries at night.
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage Blu - ray (1970 — Italy) In 1970, young first - time director Dario Argento made his indelible mark on Italian cinema with «The Bird with the Crystal Plumage,» a film that redefined the «giallo» genre of murder - mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international starWith the Crystal Plumage Blu - ray (1970 — Italy) In 1970, young first - time director Dario Argento made his indelible mark on Italian cinema with «The Bird with the Crystal Plumage,» a film that redefined the «giallo» genre of murder - mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international starwith «The Bird with the Crystal Plumage,» a film that redefined the «giallo» genre of murder - mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international starwith the Crystal Plumage,» a film that redefined the «giallo» genre of murder - mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international stardom.
Loving Vincent is structured as a mystery, with Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth)-- the son of a postmaster (Chris O'Dowd) who was himself a subject of Van Gogh's paintings, as are almost all the major characters in the film — wrapped up in trying to figure out whether Van Gogh actually killed himself or he was murdered.
Morano's wrapped on a couple of features that should arrive next year — Markus Blunder «s «Autumn Blood» with Sophie Lowe and Peter Stormare, and the highly promising Beat Generation murder mystery «Kill Your Darlings,» with Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan and Elizabeth Olsen.
There's a murder mystery subplot that doesn't quite mesh with the rest of the film, but as a whole, the picture is full of so many touching moments and contemplative images.
It's a shame as this is a dark, murder mystery that's thoroughly deserving of a wider audience and shares many similarities with the aforementioned TV show.
Throw in a murder mystery with repeating the same day over and over, and Happy Death Day makes for a perfectly enjoyable movie that doesn't care to ascend to lofty heights but rather content to be a fun, in - the - moment diversion of time.
In the film, the pair star as Max and Annie, whose weekly couples game night takes a turn when they divert from their standard Pictionary and charades to play a game of murder mystery — complete with fake thugs and faux federal agents.
Open Grave (R for profanity, disturbing violence and graphic images) Murder mystery about an amnesia victim (Sharlto Copley) who wakes up in a pit of dead bodies with no idea who he is, how he got there, or who the killer is.
From series creator Jim Mickle (Cold in July), Mucho Mojo picks up with the titular duo after the calamity of the first season when the discovery of a dead body drags the best buds smack in the middle of a murder mystery.