#High Crimes

[ridenwithbiden]

#HIGH CRIMES #MUELLER #JAN 6th #PUTINS PUPPET #TREASON #FRAUD #RAPE

[saggernooseai]

#hanged #execution #gallows #public execution #executionbyhanging #executed #hanging scene #hanging #death by hanging #public hanging #noosed #mutineer #mutiny #high crimes #hang'em #guys in distress #whump

[oinchynugget]

My husband gave me one of my Christmas presents early. He got me the limited edition yellow vinyl of The Damned Things' High Crimes 😭

#adventures in the life of laramie #the damned things #joe trohman #andy hurley #high crimes

[passed-out-real]

Adam Scott Filmography Part 1

Dead at 21 (1994)

Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)

High Crimes (2002)

Tell Me You Love Me (2007)

August (2008)

Step Brothers (2008)

The Vicious Kind (2009)

Leap Year (2010)

Party Down (2009‑2010)

Operation: Endgame (2010)

#Adam Scott #Dead at 21 #Hellraiser: Bloodline #High Crimes #Tell Me You Love Me #August #Step Brothers #The Vicious Kind #Leap Year #Party Down #Operation: Endgame

[leclisserosso]

Jim Caviezel in High Crimes

#jim caviezel #high crimes

[stayallnite]

nowplaying Cells by The Damned Things out of High Crimes

#nowplaying #the damned things #high crimes

[in0ctobercountry]

their playbook

Trudeau for treason

Saturday, April 20, 2024

Pierre Poilièvre rightfully said,”I condemn these pro-genocide antisemitic chants.

We stand with Jews in Canada and around the world against these malicious words and deeds.”

#hatespeech #crimes against humanity #trudeau #high crimes #ottawa #parliament #Youtube #cbc #toronto sun #canada

[raurquiz]

#happybirthday @AshleyJudd #ashleyjudd #actress #RobinLefler #startrek #thenexgeneration #thegame #doublejeopardy #bug #heat #delovely #helen #someonewlikeyou #divergent #insurgent #Allegiant #rubyinparadise #highcrimes #OlympusHasFallen #ADogsWayHome #barry #BerlinStation

#happybirthday #ashley judd #actress #robinlefler #startrek #the next generation #the game #double jeopardy #bug #heat #delovely #helen #someone like you #divergent #insurgent #allegiant #rubyinparadise #high crimes #olympus has fallen #adogswayhome #barry #berlin station

[techaddictsuk]

Violent Rome (1975)

"Violent Rome" catapulted Maurizio Merli to stardom as Commissioner Betti, a cop-cum-vigilante. Directed by Marino Girolami, this action-packed film blends thrilling police drama with vengeance, marked by a standout car chase and brutal realism.

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#A Special Cop in Action #Betti #Daniela Giordano #EuroCrime #Forced Impact #High Crimes #John Steiner #Marino Girolami #Maurizio Merli #Poliziotteschi #Poliziottesco #Richard Conte #Street Killers #Umberto Lenzi #Violent City #Violent Naples #Violent Rome

[karadin]

SUPREME COURT DECIDES TO TAKE UP CASE THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS IMMUNITY FOR CRIMES COMMITTED DURING AND AFTER HIS PRESIDENCY - AS THE CASE HAS NO BASIS IN LAW, IT’S A DELAYING TACTIC TO AVOID FEDERAL CONVICTIONS BEFORE THE ELECTION.

#youtube #us supreme court #conservative court #favor for trump #donald trump #high crimes #trump court cases #trump criminal

[cappedinamber]

High Crimes (2002)

Directed by Carl Franklin

Cinematography by Theo van de Sande

#high crimes #carl franklin #theo van de sande #2002

[adamwatchesmovies]

High Crimes (2002)

High Crimes could’ve been something had it dug into its story potential. As is, it’s fine as a piece of disposable entertainment… until the conclusion.

Attorney Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) is shocked when the FBI arrest her husband, Tom (James Caviezel). She’s told his real name is Ronald Chapman and that he’s been hiding ever since he murdered nine unarmed civilizations in El Salvador during a covert military operation in 1988. She’s determined to help the inexperienced lawyer, First Lieutenant Terence Embry (Adam Scott), defend her husband but when the evidence points to a conspiracy at work, she hires embittered former military attorney Charlie Grimes (Morgan Freeman) to assist.

The movie starts on the wrong note by showing Claire winning a new trial for her client: a man accused of rape. They never show you the details of the case but a part of you knows she’s one of these unscrupulous lawyers you hate, the kind that will bully a witness to make the jury question their authenticity. Even with this false step, the movie could’ve worked if it asked the right questions. Let’s say you’re a lawyer and you’re used to representing people you know are bad but can’t be proven villainous in a court of law. What happens when someone you love is accused of a crime? What happens if you suspect they did it? While High Crimes sows uncertainty within the audience (to varying effectiveness), in Claire’s mind, he’s innocent. This makes the film simply about the court case, and nothing else. Not necessarily a flaw but it is a missed opportunity.

As the conspiracy against Tom/Ronald is uncovered, things get more interesting. When the prosecution has counters to every move the defense makes, the evidence is largely circumstantial and even the judge appears to want to get this affair dealt with as quickly as possible, you start to believe there's something fishy going on. It makes you wonder why they have military courts at all except to sweep shady operations gone wrong under the rug. There certainly doesn’t seem to be any desire to get true justice, not from the way things are done here.

The question is not whether the film is emotionally manipulative; it’s whether it will push your buttons in a way that remains fun. For the most part, it is. You want to hear what really happened and it’s satisfying to see Claire gather evidence to piece together the big picture. Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman are both excellent performers. I’ll even call their characters memorable enough that if the book the film is based on was part of a series, they could’ve done more of these with the two leads teaming up again.

Unfortunately, what works about this legal thriller just narrowly outweighs the bad and when we get to that conclusion, the scale falls down towards the negative. You could cut this movie short by a good 15 minutes and have a much better picture, a tale that leaves you uncertain and with a slight chill down your spine… but nah. Instead, director Carl Franklin makes the answers really clear-cut and easy. It all comes down to a tussle in which someone has to die so the whole thing can be resolved without any ambiguity.

A movie like High Crimes can only end in one of two ways and once you’ve figured this out, the movie could only earn itself so many stars. Once you realize which of these two would be the most shocking, the kind this movie would choose to have a “surprising twist”, you know there's only one possible ending. The highest score High Crimes could earn drops another star. Still, it could’ve been fine. A cycle of new evidence, suspense, and devastating countermove can be fun if it pays off in the end. Unfortunately, High Crimes does not pay off. (Widescreen version On VHS, June 3, 2021)

#High Crimes #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Carl Franklin #Yuri Zeltser #Grace Cary Bickley #Ashley Judd #Morgan Freeman #Jim Caviezel #Amanda Peet #Tom bower #2002 movies #2002 films

[shitpostingkats]

I'm sorry I'm still not over Riz taking the High Fantasy Equivalent Of Speed except no one remembers he weighs 25 pounds soaking wet so instead of Calming The Hell Down like we all know in our heart of hearts Riz would do if he actually took properly dosed stimulants he just sprints through all 9 phases of hyperfocus and ascends to neurodivergent godhood and starts solving mysteries you've never heard of and then becomes paranoid that someone's gonna take his memories so he goes up to a pirate and asks them to tattoo his red string conspiracy board on his flesh

#also he's sixteen and on spring break in cancun #what. what do you think this pirate thought when a highschooler with pupils wider than god walked up and asked for a chest tat of NIGHT YOR #Riz's coffee chugging is an attempt to self medicate change my mind. you can't. #Riz fucking Gukgak #he sleeps with a sword. he sleeps for four hours a night. he offered to bite a guys eye out and shove it into his best friends skull. #he can't stop breaking into crime scenes. #d20 #dimension 20 #fantasy high #riz gukgak

[oinchynugget]

Did you know that if you take The Damned Things catalog, add in Patrick Stump's solo stuff, calculate the average, then multiply that by Pete Wentz, you get Fall Out Boy?

#it's true. i checked my work. the math is right. #adventures in the life of laramie #fall out boy #patrick stump #joe trohman #andy hurley #pete wentz #the damned things #ironiclast #high crimes #soul punk #truant wave

[dick-chugger]

Seriously why are the people on this sub kind of funny sometimes

#house md #hate crimes md #hatecrimes md #gregory house #eric foreman #james wilson #lisa cuddy #robert chase #hilson #theres a surprisingly high amount of people there who agree that house is so very autistic #r/okbuddyvicodin

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Man. If I had a nickel for every time Zac Oyama and Lou Wilson had to rp a breakup-coded fight between their “platonic besties” characters because Zac’s character was experiencing a hard personal internal struggle and decided to leave a group/cause that he wasn’t actually invested in and mostly just joined because Lou’s character was passionate about it and Lou’s character was canonically very charismatic and good at garnering followers/admirers but Zac’s character was one of his only true friends that he fully trusted and was loyal to and Lou’s character was really hurt when Zac’s character left, less by the actual action of leaving and more by the implication that he didn’t care about Lou’s character enough to stay I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s fucking RUDE that it’s happened twice.

#listen. listen. it’s better if none of the bad kids are romantically involved with each other #i don’t actually ship gorgug and fabian that much #but zac and lou can’t just pull that nonsense during the ravening war and then turn around and do the EXACT SAME THING to me in jy #this is a hate crime against me personally and also chandler #zac oyama #lou wilson #the ravening war #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #colin provolone #thane delissandro katzon #gorgug thistlespring #fabian seacaster #colindeli #dimension 20 #d20