Thriller

Rising Sun

March 13, 2007 // 0 Comments

"We may come from a fragmented MTV rap video culture, but they do not." Michael Crichton doesn't have a reliable track record when it comes to movies adapted from his best-selling novels. Like John Grisham, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and [...]

Haven

March 9, 2007 // 0 Comments

haven: n 2: a place of safety 3: a place offering favorable opportunities or conditions —Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Safety is the one thing that everyone desires in Frank E. Flowers' "Haven, " a multi-character [...]

Derailed

March 9, 2007 // 0 Comments

"I got all kinds of guilt…" Morality tales are often packed with warnings about the ways we should proceed through our lives. On one hand, they tap into our subconscious and remind us that consequences lurk in every corner of every decision we [...]

Flightplan

March 7, 2007 // 0 Comments

"People will think what I tell them to think. That's how authority works." 'Flightplan' brings Jodie Foster back to her dark roots in this thriller that sadly fails to fully engage its audience, though. To be reasonable, [...]

The Wicker Man: 2-Disc Collector's Edition

February 20, 2007 // 0 Comments

The cult movie scene has perhaps never had as mystifying an entry as Robin Hardy's 1973 art-house hit "The Wicker Man." Shrouded in mystery and controversy, the story behind the film is just as provocative as the end result, which has been [...]

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

February 15, 2007 // 0 Comments

"The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope… because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life… maybe we can too." When "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" was released in [...]

Black Rain

February 7, 2007 // 0 Comments

"Theft is theft. There is no gray area." Ah… the eighties. I came in on the front end of this decadent, cheese-filled era at the ripe, old age of two and checked into the nineties when I was nearly twelve. I remember being fascinated by the [...]

Black Rain

February 7, 2007 // 0 Comments

"Theft is theft. There is no gray area." Ah… the eighties. I came in on the front end of this decadent, cheese-filled era at the ripe, old age of two and checked into the nineties when I was nearly twelve. I remember being fascinated by the [...]

Unknown

February 5, 2007 // 0 Comments

"I don't know… I can't remember…" I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked up a copy of "Unknown" — I had only seen a synopsis and a mediocre review on an episode of Ebert & Roper. What I wasn't [...]

Satan's Playground

January 26, 2007 // 0 Comments

The low-budget horror scene of the 1970s is paid loving homage by cult indie director Dante Tomaselli in his latest horror effort, "Satan's Playground." Known in small circles for his surrealist and artsy approach to horror, Tomaselli [...]
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