Written by Ken Follett and Stanley MannDirected by Richard Marquand I’d never been a big fan of spy thrillers, but Eye of the Needle is a film I’ve watched a few times […]
Movie Review: Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds – Not As Scary As I’d Been Led To Believe
Written by Daphne DuMaurier and Evan HunterDirected by Alfred Hitchcock For quite some time I’d been terrified of this film. All I knew from my parents was that it was hideously scary, […]
Movie Review: The Manchurian Candidate – You’ll Never Look at a Deck of Cards the Same Way…
Written by Richard Condon and George AxelrodDirected by John Frankenheimer I had never seen the original version of The Manchurian Candidate until just prior to seeing the remake. The two movies are […]
Movie Review – The Manchurian Candidate (2004): The Wrong Time for a Thriller About a Presidential Race?
Written by Richard Condon, George Axelrod, Daniel Pyne, and Dean GeorgarisDirected by Jonathan Demme I hadn’t seen the original Manchurian Candidate until a few months prior to seeing the remake. A discussion […]
Air Force One: Harrison Ford for President!
Written by Andrew W. MarloweDirected by Wolfgang Petersen (Originally written in 2002) Is the era of the Hollywood blockbuster action over? I think that’s a question everyone is asking right now, and […]
Move review – The Right Temptation
Written by Larry BrandDirected by Lyndon Chubbock There was a sweet surprise waiting for me in this film. I found myself glued to my seat, knowing that there was more going on […]
Movie Review – Jaws: Why Beach Attendance Went Down in the Summer of ’75
Written by Peter Benchley and Carl GottliebDirected by Steven Spielberg Once upon a time, a man named Peter Benchley wrote a little novel about a seaside town terrorized one summer by a […]
Thoughts From the Mountain Top 