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...Time Warner), seem to be quietly confident. Their ace in the hole is director Wolfgang Petersen, who, having directed The Perfect Storm and Das Boot, knows from terror and tension on top of and beneath the waves. Poseidon could just be the preposterous, grip-the-armrest thriller people love in summer. Or, like the ship, it could be a sinker. -By Belinda Luscombe...
Everyone has wondered what it would be like to be maimed and mangled by a great white shark. Oliver A. Horovitz ’08 actually did something about it. Longing for off-the-wall events at Harvard, Horovitz decided to blend inner tubes, Swedish fish, and a 1975 thriller. The result? The “MAC Attack,” which lured adventurous students to the MAC pool, getting them to shell out to sit in inner-tubes while watching Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” on a large screen...
...withholding them from reviewers was completely unnecessary. Similarly, the two horror movies that have been denied advance screenings—the second installment in Kate Beckinsale’s vampire franchise “Underworld Evolution” and a remake of the 1979 thriller, “When a Stranger Calls”—hardly relied upon the press for commercial success. Horror films are guaranteed an audience of genre aficionados who can be relied upon to turn out en masse for opening weekend. Disparaging word of mouth between fans, not hostile reviews, is what sinks fear...
...biggest problems, however, is simply that this movie could have been made 10 years ago. The events of the last five years should make this sort of tense terrorist thriller more exciting, more vital, more visceral. This could really happen, a viewer should think. Instead it devolves into an entertaining bastard child of “The Fugitive,” “The Peacemaker,” and “24”—a program that has all the urgency “The Sentinel” lacks...
Black Swan Green proceeds (more in the manner of a scrapbook than a thriller) through the seasons of the year, and then, exactly at the midpoint of the novel, Jason stumbles upon an exotic old lady--a Belgian Miss Havisham--who throws open the doors on an alien world of poetry and music and Continental panache (everything forbidden to an English boy). Madame Crommelynck also starts to comment on what we have been reading, asserting that "Beautiful words ruin your poetry" and "A poet throws all but truth in the cellar." Suddenly, as in the works of Thomas Pynchon...