No Country for Old Men: Blood in the Sand
Javier Bardem. Photo: Miramax When I started reading Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”, it took a while before I was hooked, until the author’s way of conjuring a desolate, bleak future…
Final Destination 3
As Wendy Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and friends are about to take a roller coaster ride, she has a premonition of a major accident and they decide not to take…
Final Destination 2
After having a vision where she dies in a violent highway pileup, Kimberly Corman (A.J. Cook) and a few others narrowly escape death... but then the strange accidents begin. The…
From Hell: The Ripper Unmasked (Again)
Johnny Depp. Photo: 20th Century Fox When I was 16 years old, I wrote a paper on Jack the Ripper. I suspect my teacher worried about my choice of subject,…
Rear Window: A View to a Kill
James Stewart. Photo: Paramount This masterpiece from Alfred Hitchcock reunited the director with James Stewart from Rope (1948), another thriller that was set entirely in one apartment. This film has…
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…