The Most Dangerous Game

After a shipwreck, big-game hunter Robert Rainsford (Joel McCrea) is washed ashore on a mysterious island where he’s introduced to a count (Leslie Banks) who’s a fellow hunter… and has…

10 Cloverfield Lane 

After a car crash, Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up in a concrete room, chained to a wall; a man (John Goodman) who brings her food tells her that there’s…

The Man Who Knew Too Much 

While vacationing in Switzerland, the Lawrences (Leslie Banks, Edna Best) witness a murder and receive information that should be valuable to the British… but then their daughter is kidnapped. A…

The 39 Steps: Another Man Knows Too Much

Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. Photo: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation In 1934, Alfred Hitchcock had turned his first film for Gaumont British, a thriller called The Man Who Knew Too Much,…

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 

Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and her allies prepare to liberate the people of Panem and defeat President Snow (Donald Sutherland) and his troops once and for all. The fourth and…

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

After surviving another Hunger Game, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is in District 13 where the rebel leader, President Coin (Julianne Moore), wants to turn her into the Mockingjay, a symbol…

Laura: The Enigma Behind the Painting

Dana Andrews. Photo: 20th Century Fox After returning from service in World War II, the mighty Hollywood mogul Darryl F. Zanuck was reportedly furious to find that his interim replacement…

CSI: Dead Men Do Tell Tales

Photo: CBS In the fall of 2000, a remake of the old thriller series The Fugitive (1963-1967) was expected to be a hit. It was what CBS believed in. Audiences…

Falling Skies

The sci-fi series that changed showrunners more often than you change underwear started out promisingly, with an original concept by Saving Private Ryan writer Robert Rodat and executive-produced by Steven…

Hannibal

After several popular movie adaptations, author Thomas Harris’s iconic serial killer Hannibal Lecter got his own TV series – and showrunner Bryan Fuller created a distinct style. Initially, the story…