Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall from their building?s rooftop. An accident, the police insist. A murder, her intuition tells her. This suspicion is confirmed by the increasingly hostile behavior of the authorities as she begins to investigate the case. It will come as no surprise to devotees of the paranoid thriller?is there any other kind nowadays??that the victim is accidentally privy to information that threatens the secret plans of a powerful mining corporation to exploit and sully Greenland?s purity. It will come as no surprise to them either that as the conspiracy surrounding Smilla begins to take form, the movie...
...fall from their building?s rooftop. An accident, the police insist. A murder, her intuition tells her. This suspicion is confirmed by the increasingly hostile behavior of the authorities as she begins to investigate the case. It will come as no surprise to devotees of the paranoid thriller?is there any other kind nowadays??that the victim is accidentally privy to information that threatens the secret plans of a powerful mining corporation to exploit and sully Greenland?s purity. It will come as no surprise to them either that as the conspiracy surrounding Smilla begins to take form, the movie...
Nowhere was this more evident than during the defending Eastern champion Ed Mosley's match at 158 pounds. This overtime thriller could have gone either way, and a victory would have caused a six point swing and given the Crimson...
...from the David Balducci novel, asks you to believe that the burglar has hidden behind a two-way mirror in a room where the President is having nasty sex with his adviser's young wife--and that our larcenous hero does nothing to stop her murder. This old-style thriller sometimes creaks in its joints as it adds an amoral aide (Judy Davis), a canny cop (Ed Harris) and a Secret Service agent (Scott Glenn) as weary as the one Clint played in In the Line of Fire. But Eastwood is less interested in political corruption than in filial care...
...offbeat is "Sling Blade," really? In some ways, Thornton's Southern-gothic thriller is an unlikely hybrid of "Forrest Gump" and "Pulp Fiction," the tent-poles of the Oscar race two years ago. That is, "Sling Blade" inhabits some fairly original territory, but doesn't deliver on all of its promises...