Author: Alice W. Ragan

12th Fail (2023) Born in dacoit-infested Chambal, Manoj Kumar Sharma is the son of a clerk. His father, an honest man, is suspended for hitting a corrupt officer. Manoj prepares cheat slips for his….

Sunset Boulevard (1950) At a mansion on Sunset Boulevard, police officers and photographers discover the body of Joe Gillis floating face down in the swimming pool. In a flashback, Joe relates the….

The Lives of Others (2006) In 1984 East Germany (GDR), Stasi Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler, code name HGW XX/7, is ordered by his friend and superior, Lt. Col. Anton Grubitz, to spy on playwright Georg Dreyman, whose pro-communist politics….

The Prestige (2006) Past events are told through the diaries of nineteenth-century magicians Rupert Angier and Alfred Borden. The diaries are read by their great-grandchildren, Kate Angier and Andrew Westley….

The Departed (2006) In the 1980s in Boston, Irish Mob boss Frank Costello introduces himself to a young Colin Sullivan. Many years later, Sullivan has been groomed as a spy inside the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) and….

The Matrix (1999) In 1999, in an unnamed city, Thomas Anderson, a computer programmer known as “Neo” in hacking circles, delves into the mystery of the “Matrix”. His search brings….

Memento (2000) The film starts with a Polaroid photograph of a dead man. As the sequence plays backward, the photo reverts to its undeveloped state, entering the camera before the man is….

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) A train arrives at the Old West town of “Flagstone” where a man with a harmonica (later dubbed “Harmonica”) kills three men attempting to ambush him…..

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest In 1963 Oregon, Randle McMurphy is incarcerated for the statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl (which he claims he committed under the assumption that she was an 18-year-old),….

Fight Club (1999) An unnamed Narrator recounts the events that led to him meeting a man named Tyler Durden. After working a dead-end job and living an unsatisfying life with an….