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The best of the best, here are presented the ten best movies about crime which are based on true stories.  They are listed in alphabetical order and each is generally a quite good movie, but what makes them especially interesting, and in some cases, very, very terrifying, is that this is not complete fiction; in [...]

I did not see this coming, but Paramount Pictures is making an animated film based on Heavy Metal, the 1970s sci-fi/fantasy magazine that spawned the 1981 cult classic film Heavy Metal and a mediocre sequel in 2000, Heavy Metal 2000. Apparently David Fincher is going to be directing the latest remake of Heavy Metal read more [...]

One of the most recent pictures of David Fincher was The Zodiac; a retelling of the true story of the serial killer who terrorized California during the 1960s and 1970s and whose identity was never determined.  Fincher models the telling of this tale through the lens of a political cartoonist working for a local newspaper [...]

In my opinion Se7en is easily one of the forty best movies ever made.  It is cast with fantastic actors like Kevin Spacey, Gwyneth Paltrow, Morgan Freeman, and Brad Pitt, each portraying their well-developed characters in a manner that should have put them all into consideration for major awards.  The visual effects are haunting and [...]

Okay, Panic Room is a point of argument among my friends as to how well-done it is.  One opinion runs that it is a shallow thriller with a predictable plotline and filled with many of the special effect techniques that were both necessary and complementary to Fight Club.  The other opinion states that the [...]

Fight Club is a cult-favorite both in its cinematic adaption and in its novel form as written by Chuck Palahniuk.  The film adaption employs Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, and Helena Bonham Carter to bring Palahniuk’s novel to life.  Brad Pitt is reported to have exclaimed to Palahniuk on the set, “Thank you [...]

The Game (1997) – The Game slipped under the radars of many appreciators of movies.  It is a very good thriller from Fincher in which Nicolas Van Orton (Michael Douglas), a propserous San Fransisco investment banker receives a gift from his screw-up brother Conrad Van Orton (Sean Penn) along with generic instructions to call a number [...]