Nicolas Gob and Eleonore Bernheim, in the French TV crime series “Art of Crime” Season 7. Courtesy of MHz Choice . Last May, I covered the first six seasons of this light-hearted French crime series.

Jan 14, 2025 · Gwendoline Hamon as Cassandre, in the French TV crime drama “Cassandre” Season One. Courtesy of MHz Choice The premise of the French TV crime drama, “Cassandre,” is nothing new to fans of the genre. A police detective from Paris moves to a much smaller city due to some sort of scandal ...

Oct 23, 2024 · “Leninov Park” picks them up several months later, switching the scenery from snowy winter to sunny summer. A bag lady is shot in the head in a park near the police station, raising questions of whether it’s due to a personal conflict or a hate crime, and embarrassing the department, either way.

Dec 10, 2024 · Sofia Helin as Iris, in “Fallen” (Sanningen). Photo: Carolina Romare. Courtesy of MHz Choice. Regular readers will recognize the name Sofia Helin from previous Scandinavian crime series reviews, including the highly praised original incarnation of “The Bridge.”

Oct 4, 2024 · The film moves back and forth in time a bit, as storyteller Grandmere Sara weaves her own history into a lesson for her troubled grandson. Young Sara (Ariella Glaser) is a beloved only child, a bit spoiled, the daughter of a doctor father and a math teacher mother.

Oct 23, 2024 · Katharina Thalbach as retired-chancellor-turned-amateur-detective Angela Merkel, in “Miss Merkel” on MHz Choice. Courtesy of MHz Choice. This review covers two German TV movies under the title “Miss Merkel.”

Another asset is the character and performance of Olaf Johannessen’s Ragnar. What a great villain he makes! He’s the head of a fawning religious cult, and the richest man in the Faroes, with a hand in every business – especially the fishing and whaling that provide their economic base and the majority of the jobs.

Just ten days into the new year and it appears that the studios are trying to create a new action thriller franchise. Technically it really began in 2018 with a flick that attempted to combine a heist caper plot with a police procedural led by a detective that’s not exactly squeaky clean.

During the pandemic lockdown and in the frigid months of more recent years, many home viewers became hooked on “true crime” stories that were once the lifeblood of broadcast TV news “magazine” shows, but now have entire cable networks devoted to them.

Dec 24, 2024 · All ready to indulge in a holiday tradition, at least for the last couple of decades? The movie industry discovered that lots of folks do their Christmas festivities the night before and very early (depending on the kiddos maybe dawn) that day, so they want to bag up the ripped-up wrapping paper and head over to the multiplex for a flick, preferably a …