• October 27, 2024
• At Home, Thriller

Richard Harris’s 2016 page-turner novel is now a cinematic papal thriller that is more timely and will probably be more polarizing than I’m sure he could have imagined. The...

• August 16, 2016
• At Home, Crime, Drama

The opening credits of Confirmation offer a quick history lesson. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush was struggling to appoint a judge to the Supreme Court to fill the...

• February 9, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Mystery, Television

When I see TV mini-series like BBC’s excellent State of Play, I’m reminded of how the TV medium can be as powerful as the big screen, if just given...

• February 3, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Mystery, Television

There is a scene in Page Eight that is a stellar as any you’ll see all year in any film. The fact that it takes place in a board...

• October 12, 2012
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

I was 9 years old when the Iran hostage crisis happened in November 1979. The American diplomats, captured in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, were held for 444 days....