Stories by @rwhite18
7,380 stories
Videodrome (1993)
A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
Dead Ringers (1998)
Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
Sisters (2022)
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Christopher Nolans The Truman Show
An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.
Broadcast News (2007)
Intelligent satire of American television news. A highly strung news producer finds herself strangely attracted to a vapid anchorman even through she loathes everything he personifies. To make matters worse, her best friend, a talented but not particularly telegenic news reporter, is secretly in love with her.
Basic Instinct (1982)
A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.
Showgirls (1985)
A mysterious young drifter who calls herself Nomi Malone hitches a ride to Las Vegas, Nevada, and begins working as a dancer, and sets about clawing her way to the top of the Vegas showgirls.
The Full Monty (2007)
Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.
RoboCop (1977)
In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.
True Romance (1963)
In Detroit, a pop culture nerd steals cocaine from his new wife's pimp and tries to sell it in Hollywood, prompting the mobsters who own the drugs to pursue the couple.
Denis Villeneuve's Hereditary
A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.
Denis Villeneuve's The Departed
In this crime-action tour de force, the South Boston state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. While Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by their double lives, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations they have penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there is a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy - and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save themselves. But is either willing to turn on their friends and comrades they've made during their long stints undercover?
Bridget Jones's Diary (1991)
Bridget Jones is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.
Legally Blonde (2011)
Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen, is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school. While she is there, she figures out that there is more to her than just looks.
Christopher Nolan's Die Hard
A New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Christopher Nolan's The Departed
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Men (2012)
Harper retreats to the countryside to be alone in the wake of a tragedy, but her unease at the town's leering and uncannily similar men grows into a fully fledged nightmare as her arrival awakens something primal in the forest.
Annihilation (2028)
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Scarface (2023)
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
True Romance (1973)
In Detroit, a pop culture nerd steals cocaine from his new wife's pimp and tries to sell it in Hollywood, prompting the mobsters who own the drugs to pursue the couple.