Actress Michelle Monaghan (1976)

MaXXXine (2024), the latest addition to Ti West’s X film series, is an American slasher movie set in 1985 Los Angeles during the infamous Night Stalker murders. Maxine Minx, famous for her work in adult films, auditions for the lead role in The Puritan II and lands it despite her unconventional background. Following the audition, she mentions it to her friends Leon and Amber James, who invites her to a party in the Hollywood Hills. However, Maxine declines as she heads to her second job at a live peep show. While working, she encounters a mysterious leather-clad figure who seems disturbed by her ...

Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), an American action spy film written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, follows IMF agent Ethan Hunt as he races against time to stop a terror-for-hire group, the Apostles, from acquiring nuclear bombs. Two years after their leader Solomon Lane is captured, the Syndicate has reorganized and recruited extremist John Lark to carry out their plan of dismantling the existing world order. When Ethan’s attempt to retrieve the plutonium cores in Berlin fails and his team member Luther Stickell is taken hostage, he chooses to save his teammate but loses the cores to the Apostles. ...

The American action thriller film Sleepless (2017), directed by Baran bo Odar and written by Andrea Berloff, is a remake of the French film Sleepless Night in 2011. Two masked men are seen chasing after a van, causing it to crash. The men turn out to be cops – Vincent Downs and Sean Cass (T.I.). As they fight off their attackers and kill one of them, more thugs arrive with guns. In the midst of the chaos, Vincent and Sean manage to steal a duffel bag containing 25 kilograms of cocaine. Vincent has been an Internal Affairs officer for two years and has been ...

Justice League: War (2014) is an American animated superhero film based on the DC Comics team. Adapted from the storyline of Justice League: Origin by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee, it follows a series of abductions in Gotham City. When video footage links Batman to the incidents, Green Lantern intervenes and nearly gets defeated by a Parademon. However, Batman arrives to help and they both chase the alien creature into the sewers. After it explodes, they find a Mother Box and realize it’s from another world. To uncover more information, they turn to Superman for ...

The popular American anthology crime drama television series True Detective (2014–2024) was created by Nic Pizzolatto and first aired on HBO in 2014. Each season features a new narrative, cast, and setting. The initial season was met with critical acclaim and impressive ratings for HBO, winning numerous awards for its exceptional acting, cinematography, writing, and direction. While the second season received mixed reviews, it still maintained high viewership. The third season was positively reviewed but experienced a decrease in viewership. Now in its fourth season, titled True Detective: Night Country and set ...

The Best of Me (2014), a romantic drama directed by Michael Hoffman and written by Will Fetters and J. Mills Goodloe, is adapted from Nicholas Sparks’ novel of the same name. Dawson Cole, who works on an offshore rig near Louisiana, experiences a life-threatening explosion while on the job. After making a miraculous recovery, he discovers that his dear friend and father figure, Tuck, has passed away. Returning home after nearly two decades for Tuck’s final wishes, ...

Blindsided (2013), an American thriller directed by Joseph Ruben, follows the story of Sara Taylor, a photojournalist stationed in Afghanistan. While exploring a building, she hears cries for help and proceeds to take a photograph. To her horror, she realizes that the crying woman is carrying a bomb disguised as a baby. The explosion leaves Sara blind and she returns to America with her boyfriend Ryan, who is eager to marry her. As Sara prepares for a party and goes out to buy supplies, she is knocked over by a cyclist. Upon arriving home, she discovers that Ryan has gone out but when she takes a shower, she unknowingly ...

Source Code (2011), the U.S. science fiction action thriller film directed by Duncan Jones and written by Ben Ripley, follows the story of U.S. Army pilot Captain Colter Stevens as he wakes up on a Metra commuter train headed to Chicago. Confused and disoriented, his last memory was of flying a mission in Afghanistan. However, to those around him, including his friend Christina Warren, he appears to be Sean Fentress, a school teacher. As he shares his confusion with Christina, the train suddenly explodes while passing another train, resulting in the death of all ...

Somewhere (2010) is a film written and directed by Sofia Coppola. It tells the story of Johnny Marco, a newly famous actor recovering from an injury at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. The opening scene features a black Ferrari speeding around a desert race track before coming to a stop and revealing Johnny Marco stepping out. Despite his rise to fame, he feels unfulfilled in his daily life as a recently divorced actor. He resides at the Chateau Marmont, nursing his broken wrist in a plaster cast. While he occasionally drinks and socializes with his childhood friend Sammy, also an actor, Marco spends most of his time ...

Due Date (2010), an American black comedy road film, follows the journey of Peter Highman, a successful architect who is rushing to get home from Atlanta to Los Angeles for his wife Sarah’s impending delivery. Along the way, he meets Ethan Tremblay with his dog Sonny, who is on his way to LA to pursue an acting career and scatter his father’s ashes at the Grand Canyon. However, after a misunderstanding involving the words ‘terrorist’ and ‘bomb’, both men are kicked off their flight. With Peter missing his wallet and placed on the No Fly List, he reluctantly agrees to ride with Ethan. While stopping for marijuana, they realize they ...

Gone Baby Gone (2007), an American neo-noir thriller, marks the directorial debut of Ben Affleck. Adapted from Dennis Lehane’s 1998 novel by Affleck and Aaron Stockard, the film is set in Dorchester, Boston. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro are drawn into a search for four-year-old Amanda, whose mother Helene McCready pleads for her safe return on television. When Helene’s sister and brother-in-law hire the detectives to find Amanda, they ...

Mission: Impossible III (2006) is an American action spy film directed by J. J. Abrams, produced by and starring Tom Cruise, from a screenplay written by Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci. In the film, Hunt is restrained in a chair while a man holds a woman hostage across from him. The man demands the location of the ‘Rabbit’s Foot’. When it becomes clear that Hunt is not aware of its whereabouts, the ...

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), an American neo-noir black comedy crime film written and directed by Shane Black, follows the story of Harry Lockhart. After showing remorse in an audition for a botched burglary, Harry unexpectedly lands a screen test in New York City. Mistaken for method acting by casting director Dabney Shaw, he is then sent to Los Angeles for another screen test. At a party in LA, Harry reunites with his childhood crush Harmony Lane and meets ‘Gay’ Perry van Shrike, a private investigator hired to help him prepare for his screen test. Meanwhile, party host Harlan Dexter has recently settled a ...

North Country (2005), directed by Niki Caro, is an American drama film. In 1989, Josey Aimes flees her abusive husband and returns to her hometown in northern Minnesota with her children Sammy and Karen. She moves in with her parents, Alice and Hank, where tensions rise due to Hank’s beliefs that Josey is promiscuous and disapproves of her having Sammy as a teenager. While working at a hair salon, Josey reconnects with an old acquaintance named Glory Dodge, who suggests she apply for a job at the local iron mine. Despite Hank’s disapproval of women working there, Josey takes the job due to its higher pay. ...