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DIED. WINSTON GRAHAM, 93, author of 12 novels about the Poldark clan, which--as embodied in the hit BBC adaptation--made landowner-banker feuding in 18th century Cornwall seem sexy. Graham also wrote 28 other books, including Marnie, which became a Hitchcock thriller...
...part: Mortals comes with the whole special-ops toy chest, including secret signals, micro-recorders, coded transmissions and even a violent and extended mission into the bush. This could have the effect of cleaving the novel into two incompatible halves - a portrait of a marriage and a political thriller - but Rush merges the two successfully and somewhat shockingly, when the doctor who is the target of Ray's surveillance becomes Iris' psychiatrist, neatly short-circuiting Ray's heretofore hermetically separate identities and violently abolishing his certainty in every truth he ever relied on. In all his identities...
...first glance, it all seemed like conventional movie fare. But about half an hour into the film, anyone anticipating a Hollywood-style thriller began to notice something was amiss. Despite the superslick credits, snappy editing, witty dialogue and driving soundtrack, the expected adrenaline-pumping scenes failed to materialize. Where were the car chases, fight scenes, stunts, gun battles and helicopter crashes? There were none. Throughout the movie's entire 119 minutes, none of the five main characters even held a gun. When a lunatic actually pulled a pistol in the station house, the whole joint?of cops, mind you?practically...
Okhotin’s story has the stuff of an atmospheric Hollywood thriller in it, with ex-Soviet officials playing psychological games and customs agents soliciting bribes at every turn...
...Bunker 13 suffers from some common flaws of the thriller. The love interest never rises above the level of a plot device, and the secondary characters are almost indistinguishable, with the standard complication that the good guys are just as bad as the bad guys. Yet on his first time out, Bahal has succeeded admirably at the genre's main requirement by creating a complex and compelling (if frequently repellent) protagonist...