Thriller
Dressed To Kill
For director Brian DePalma, the summer of 1980 was a best of times, worst of times. Though he had hit a commercial home run with "Carrie" four years earlier, he subsequently suffered critical misses with "The Fury" and "Home [...]
The Name of the Rose
"The Name Of The Rose" is a dark murder mystery set in a monastery in Italy during the 14th century. It is a film of European origin and thus, hardly surprising, it has a very different flair than Hollywood productions. Instead of the glossy, [...]
And Soon The Darkness
'And Soon The Darkness' seems to have a lot going for it. It is a remake of a good, yet underseen 1970 British thriller of the same name, it has two beautiful female leads, a well-known male lead, and a distribution company (Anchor Bay) known [...]
The Disappearance Of Alice Creed
Sometimes simple execution can be the best solution. Richard Linklater's underrated drama 'Tape' comes to mind as a film that took a simple approach to telling a story. There were a total of three characters and the film has one location. [...]
The Maltese Falcon
Humphrey Bogart was the epitome of the classic tough-as-nails gumshoe. In many of his films, his characters became iconic portrayals of heroes and unlikely-heroes alike, as he conquered the world with his films and created memorably movie history. Many of [...]
