North by Northwest: Rushmore Rumble
Cary Grant. Photo: MGM According to one biography on Alfred Hitchcock, it was Bernard Herrmann who introduced screenwriter Ernest Lehman to the director. They hit it off and decided to…
The X-Files: Agents and Aliens
Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Photo: Fox “The truth is out there”. That was the slogan that ended most episodes’ opening credit sequence and in that lies the reason why…
Final Destination
High school student Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) has a nightmare where he and his classmates die in a plane crash; the dream is so vivid he skips an upcoming flight...…
Ice Station Zebra
An American nuclear sub heads for the North Pole on a rescue mission; on board is a British agent (Patrick McGoohan) who won’t tell anyone what he’s up to... as…
Man on the Roof: The Enemy Within
Sven Wollter and Thomas Hellberg. Photo: SF By 1976, American audiences had already familiarized themselves with Martin Beck. He was the Swedish police detective who starred in a series of…
Signs
Pennsylvania farmer Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) discovers huge circles in his corn field; similar events are taking place all over the world and mankind soon learns that aliens are on…
French Connection: How It Was Broken
Gene Hackman. Photo: 20th Century Fox In 1971, William Friedkin was not happy at all. The French Connection had the potential to become not only his breakthrough but also a…
The Man Who Knew Too Much
For some reason, Alfred Hitchcock felt that the 1934 version of this story was something he could improve upon; if he was wrong or not is still a matter of…
Clear and Present Danger
As Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) climbs the CIA ladder, the President declares an illegal war on Colombian drug cartels. The sequel to Patriot Games (1992) was made by the same…
The Village
The people of a small, isolated Pennsylvania village have a special agreement with creatures that inhabit the surrounding woods, but an accident brings about changes... M. Night Shyamalan's first major…