Gravity: More Science, Less Hollywood

Sandra Bullock. Photo: Warner Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and the most famous person working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, was surprised the other day to…

Dexter: Brother, Friend, Serial Killer

Michael C. Hall. Photo: Showtime After the final season of Dexter, it's kind of hard to remember how well received this show was at first. The main title sequence was…

Man from Majorca: Lawless City

Sven Wollter and Tomas von Brömssen. Photo: SF This film would make a good double bill together with Call Girl (2012). Sharing a similar look, they would appeal to an…

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

David Lynch wasn't ready to let Twin Peaks go after the first two seasons, which is why he made this prequel that follows murder victim Laura Palmer's (Sheryl Lee) last…

Notorious: Spy Games

Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Photo: RKO In the mid-1940s, the legendary Hollywood producer David O. Selznick had plenty of opinions about the casting of Alfred Hitchcock's upcoming thriller Notorious.…

CSI: NY

The second spin-off to CSI (2000-2015) was a lot less colorful than CSI: Miami (2002-2012), but then its lead character was introduced as a man who had lost his wife…

Death on the Nile 

While traveling on the Nile on board the riverboat Karnak, Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) passes time solving the murder of a young, female passenger. Meticulously staged in terms of costumes…

Death of a Pilgrim 

Lars Martin Johansson (Rolf Lassgård), head of the Swedish National Criminal Investigation Department, discreetly gathers a suitable group of detectives, aiming to take a fresh, comprehensive look at the 1986…

CSI: Miami 

The first spin-off to the hugely successful CSI (2000-2015) took the same formula of explaining the forensic science behind violent crimes, but adopted a sunnier attitude that bordered on the…

The Stepfather: Terror in Pink

Photo: New Century Vista Film Company In June 1989, FBI agents arrested an accountant by the name of Bob Clark in Virginia. A friend of the Clarks had watched an…