Mark Kermode: Despite the claims of gun lobbyists that "an armed society is a polite society", there's plenty of evidence that keeping a firearm in your house makes it a more (rather than less) dangerous place to live. In the gripping opening movement of this self-consciously pulpy, 80s-set thriller, fidgety father and husband Richard Dane (Michael C Hall, shedding the killer instinct of his title role in Dexter) loads and then accidentally discharges his daddy's gun, responding with tre find out more...
Phyllis Dietrichson is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who inspires in her nothing but contempt, but rather than leave him Phyllis decides to kill him and collect on the insurance policy she's had set up with the help of her lover, and naive partner in crime, insurance salesman Walter Neff. The only flaws in their plan are the company's reluctance to pay out so much, the diligence of Neff's increasingly suspicious colleague, (and his 'little man'), and the exemplary ruthlessness of Ph find out more...