Jimmy Fennell Pleads Guilty to Kidnapping, Sexual Misconduct

The former Georgetown Police sergeant's conviction casts doubt on his innocence in the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites

"...and affirmed his plea of guilty to charges of kidnapping and improper sexual conduct with a person in custody...."

Sept. 26, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Not Forgotten

This unusual U.S.-Mexico border film is a thriller starring Simon Baker and Paz Vega, and it's screening in Austin prior to its national release.

"...is scraped raw in the process of solving the kidnapping mystery. Integral to the story is the religious cult..."

May 1, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Everybody Knows

Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem charm in this slight tale of lost loves and kidnapping

"...changes course and the celebration gives way to a kidnapping plot. Laura’s flirtatious teenage daughter Irene (Campra) disappears from..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Road to Juarez

Conventional Mexican crime drama

"...out to be a pretty conventional narrative about friendship, kidnapping, and Mexican drug cartels. Jacob (Perez) and Robbie (Koontz)..."

April 24, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

King's Ransom

A mirthless comedy about venal people doing stupid things.

"...a madcap movie about a series of ill-conceived, inter-related kidnapping plots is instead a jumble of disconnected characters, shabby..."

April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cecil B. Demented

"...leads a devoted band of cinema terrorists in the kidnapping of movie diva Honey Whitlock (Griffith) during the world..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fargo

The Coen brothers return to their Blood Simple roots with this bizarre, dialect-strewn tale of a kidnapping gone very wrong that's filled with the their trademark graveyard wit and unique camera angles.

"...Simple roots with this bizarre, dialect-strewn tale of a kidnapping gone wrong that's apparently based on a true story..."

March 22, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Flight of the Innocent

"...is one of those who regularly derives income from kidnapping the children of wealthy northern families, but when his..."

Jan. 28, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rain Without Thunder

"...Furthermore, New York state has just put a “fetal kidnapping” law on the books, whereby it would be illegal..."

March 19, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All the Money in the World

Christopher Plummer mesmerizes as the greediest man alive

"...at the 11th hour. This recounting of the 1973 kidnapping of billionaire Scrooge-a-phile John Paul Getty’s grandson, J. Paul..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Trade

This drama about international sex trafficking is tremendously sincere but also brutal.

"...Kreuzpaintner (Summer Storm) must make real the horrors of kidnapping, enslavement, and rape without exploiting his characters or his..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Big Lebowski

A case of mistaken identity embroils the supremely go-with-the-flow character of the Dude (Bridges) in an intersecting mix of kidnapping, pornography, German nihilists, sultry women, gumshoes, missing money, and missing toes.

"...and thereby becomes embroiled in an intersecting mix of kidnapping, pornography, German nihilists, sultry women, gumshoes, missing money, and..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Manny & Lo

"...kind; their family ties involve, quite literally, bondage and kidnapping. After the death of their mother, 16-year-old Manny (Johansson)..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Operation Finale

Nazi hunting history may be accurate, but lacks tension or gravity

"...the high-stakes gambit of what is essentially an international kidnapping – the Israeli team is tasked with bringing Eichmann..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sicario

Taut, morally ambiguous thriller is set on the U.S./Mexico border

"...wide. Kate Macer (Blunt), the head of the FBI kidnapping-rescue unit conducting the raid, loses two men in the..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Horrible Bosses 2

Common work-related frustrations erupt into a fitfully funny wish-fulfillment comedy.

"...the criminal deeds involved from premeditated murder to mere kidnapping...."

Nov. 28, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Sleepless Night

Purloined cocaine, his kidnapped son, and a den of thieves who wish him ill cause one man to have a very desperate night in this taut French thriller.

"...a crime boss named Marciano (Riaboukine), who's not above kidnapping Vincent's teenaged son (Seghir) in order to get his..."

May 11, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hoodwinked Too!: Hood vs. Evil

Back for another installment is this rude animated riff on Red Riding Hood and other fairy tales.

"...evil-minded siblings, Hansel and Gretel (Hader and Poehler). The kidnapping occurs while Red (Panetierre) has been off training with..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Disappearance of Alice Creed

A kidnapping caper with only three characters and one basic location, this masterful British film ratchets up the suspense to mind-frying proportions.

"...those films one better, though (no mean feat). A kidnapping caper with only three characters and hardly more than..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Mighty Heart

Based on the true events surrounding journalist Danny Pearl’s kidnapping and murder in Pakistan, this drama by Michael Winterbottom and starring Angelina Jolie is more aloof than melodramatic.

"...events of The Wall Street Journal correspondent Danny Pearl’s kidnapping and murder in Pakistan should be advised that helmer..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Hoboken Hollow

This Texas-made slasher film draws on the early Eighties Ellebracht slave-ranch case in Kerr County for its story, but like the real thing, it's a bloody mess.

"...Brodericks, a West Texas family trading in goats, cedar, kidnapping, forced labor, torture, rape, and murder. We know that..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Shawn Badgley

Captive Audience

How a homegrown kidnapping thriller became the most popular film in Venezuela – and angered the Chavez administration in the process

"...of the increasingly common South American phenomenon of "express kidnapping," in which a person is snatched off the streets..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

The Chumscrubber

Teens, suburbia, five sets of dysfunctional parents, and the suicide that looms over it all.

"...pressure … only they kidnap the wrong kid. The kidnapping plot, along with pill-addled Dean’s increasingly nightmarish visions of..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cellular

Feels like a B-picture, but a smart, finely tuned one that wouldn’t have been out of place in Roger Corman’s mid-Seventies stable.

"...a Brentwood soccer mom who’s the victim of a kidnapping, locked in a nameless attic by Snatch’s Statham and..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Screwed

"...when a browbeaten butler Willard Fillmore (Macdonald) stages a kidnapping in order to ransom millions from his harridan employer..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Big Hit

"...a moonlighting gig with his buddies and ends up kidnapping Keiko (Chow), the goddaughter of head honcho Paris (Brooks,..."

May 1, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Palmetto

"...match, who enlists Harry's reluctant aid in the faux kidnapping of her stepdaughter Odette (Sevigny). She needs a bagman..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Switchback

"...intertwined storylines of the killer's murderous rampage and the kidnapping of an FBI agent's young son starts off as..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Excess Baggage

"...Petulant brat teenager Emily Hope (Silverstone) fakes her own kidnapping to get the attention of rich putz daddy Alexander..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Bandit Queen

"...She stood accused of many counts of murder and kidnapping, though many regarded her actions as an avenging angel..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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