• November 21, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

The Devil’s Double is one of those films that is very very difficult to watch (think The Last King of Scotland), knowing it is based on true, horrible events....

• November 21, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Thriller, War

Director Kathryn Bigelow’s tale of an Iraq war bomb squad is a lesson in film editing for maximum impact. The Hurt Locker has the urgency of news footage (which...

• November 21, 2013
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller

A lot has happened since The Hunger Games. Jennifer Lawrence won an Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook, and proceeded to charm the world with her smarts, self-effacing humor and...

• October 27, 2013
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Shortly after seeing the original Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs a few years back, I heard that the rights had been optioned by Brad Pitt, of all people, for...

• October 27, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

At first thought, I was expecting a totally tasteless disaster movie based on Flight 93 that was hijacked on 9/11/2001 and crashed (or shot down?) in a Pennsylvania field....

• October 26, 2013
• At Home, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

28 Days Later opens with a rather deliciously ironic scenario of a bunch of well-meaning activists breaking into an experimental lab in Cambridge to free a bunch of test...

• October 16, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

First of all, let me put this out there… Per Wikipedia: The term “Fifth Estate” has no fixed meaning, but is used — following a formulation that dates back...

• October 12, 2013
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Thriller

So, though I never thought it possible, Bill Paxton may have single-handedly redeemed himself with this one film. The best thriller of the year that nobody went to see,...

• October 12, 2013
• At Home, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

There’s just something creepy about some urban legends and how they sometimes become self-fulfilling prophecies. If you plant a suggestion of something—like inevitable death—into someone’s mind, sooner or later...

• October 12, 2013
• At Home, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

I always imagined that The Wicker Man would be about a great big Wicker Man lumbering across the countryside, wreaking havoc and scaring the bumpkins. Oh, and he’d also...

• September 23, 2013
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Denzel Washington is just so damn good that he can play a bad guy so despicable and sleazy that it nonetheless takes most of a film for the audience...

• September 23, 2013
• Action, At Home, Thriller

My friend and I, I’m sure, were the only people at the Unstoppable screening who high-fived each other in excitement at the mention of a train full of Molten...