Movie Review: “Taxi Driver”
The first shot of “Taxi Driver” is meant to remind us of hell. Steam billows…
Browsing: suspense films
Movie Review: “Unknown”
In the past, the low-budget crime thriller has been the most significant turning point in…
Movie Review: “High and Low”
How’s this for a moral dilemma? You’re an up-by-his-bootstraps industrialist at war with your corporate…
Movie Review: “The Hit”
I have to admit up-front that this is something of a pet movie – the…
Movie Review: “To Catch a Thief”
He was “the master of suspense,” but not all of Alfred Hitchcock’s films even tried…
Movie Review: “Rear Window”
Of the millions of people who saw last year’s featherweight Shia LaBeouf suspense hit “Disturbia,”…
Movie Review: “Vertigo”
“Psycho” and “The Birds” launched the modern horror film; “The 39 Steps” helped set the…
Movie Review: “The Orphanage”
One of the more buzzed-about entries at last year’s Sundance film festival, the Spanish ghost…
Movie Review: “Chinatown”
Another classic movie, another dilemma. After all, how does one talk about Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown”…
Movie Review: “The Two Jakes”
In theory there was absolutely nothing wrong with making a sequel to “Chinatown.” Why not…