Thriller

Fallen Angel

March 1, 2006 // 0 Comments

In its line of "Fox Film Noir" releases, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has unearthed the 1945 thriller "Fallen Angel, " which gave me another great opportunity to go down memory lane and revisit a film I hadn't seen in a [...]

A History Of Violence

February 23, 2006 // 0 Comments

When I first inserted "A History In Violence" in my DVD player I did not know what to expect, really. Then it reads there "A film by David Cronenberg." Okay… I had no idea. I remembered the trailers for the movie I had seen and it [...]

How To Kill A Judge

February 3, 2006 // 0 Comments

Though mostly recognized for his "Django" character Italian actor Franco Nero has actually covered a very wide variety of personalities in his 40-year career and still keeps adding new facets to it every year. Blue Underground has now prepared a [...]

Class Of 1984

January 26, 2006 // 0 Comments

I remember when I first saw "Class Of 1984" in the early eighties, it seemed like a bad futuristic nightmare. Living back in Germany at the time, a world so dark and menacing as it was depicted in the film was simply unthinkable. How times have [...]

The Butterfly Effect

January 24, 2006 // 0 Comments

When "The Butterfly Effect" came out in 2004, many people originally had reservations about seeing it, as Ashton Kutcher was known then almost exclusively for his role as Kelso on "That 70's Show" and no one knew whether he'd [...]

Red Eye

January 17, 2006 // 0 Comments

Vulnerability of the mind as opposed to vulnerability of the body as witnessed in a typical slasher-style horror flick is just what Wes Craven serves up in his new thriller "Red Eye." Cautiously approaching this film with bated breath to see if [...]

Dark Water: The Darker Cut

January 16, 2006 // 0 Comments

Feeling a sense of familiarity while watching "Dark Water", I couldn't help but become reminded of previous Japanese horror films that were remade for the North American audience such as "The Ring", "The Ring 2" and [...]

Flightplan

January 13, 2006 // 0 Comments

"Flightplan" is a movie that touches upon every parent's worst nightmare and as such is an incredible emotional and suspenseful film for everyone who has children of their own. It is also Jodie Fosters first major movie since "Panic [...]

Where The Sidewalk Ends

November 30, 2005 // 0 Comments

In their "Fox Film Noir" line of products 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has now prepared Otto Preminger's 1950 film "Where The Sidewalk Ends." It is a bad cop noir story in which hot-headed cop Mark Dixon (Dana Andrews) [...]

The Bird With The Crystal Plumage

November 29, 2005 // 0 Comments

Unsuspecting American tourist and writer Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante) helplessly witnesses a possible attempted homicide, while spending time in Rome, in Dario Argento's first film as both writer and director "The Bird with the Crystal [...]
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