Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summer movie season doesn't begin in America until this weekend, when the thriller Crimson Tide invades more than 2,000 theaters. But any savvy moviegoer already knows enough to make some confident predictions about Hollywood's hot-weather product...
Costa-Gavras, who directed the superb political thriller "Z," flails about here with no sense of proportion or subtlety. Though Costa-Gavras manages some excellent atmospheric effects, everything is overstated and obvious, and the film's messages seem to be written in big letters across the actors' broad and innocent brows...
Berendt's book recounts the bizarre story of Jim Williams, a socially prominent antiques dealer who was tried four times for shooting and killing Danny Hansford, a Camaro-driving handyman and hustler. But the book is no typical true-crime thriller; it is as close to Paul Theroux as it is to Dominick Dunne. Populated by a townful of Southern Gothic characters, from patrician bon vivants like the polo-playing Harry Cram to Williams' canny, football-obsessed lawyer Sonny Seiler to local eccentrics like maid Gloria Daniels, who conducted tours of her employer's mansion, occasionally supplementing them with renditions...
...looking over their shoulders, then they were probably worried about Maverick (more recycled television, this time with big stars), about The Client and Clear and Present Danger (best-seller adaptations, also with reliable stars) and about True Lies (Arnold, armed, dangerous and in his best mode, the high-tech thriller). All these movies did all right--a little bit less or a little bit more than expected, but in the ballpark, if not always in the field of dreams. But they weren't Gump or Pulp or Weddings, either. That is to say, the sneaky, relatively unheralded, relatively inexpensive latter...
...totally dumbing down: the continuing popularity of John le Carre's novels. He has been making best-seller lists for more than 30 years-ever since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold revolutionized espionage fiction-and he has done so with none of the typical thriller trappings. Evil geniuses do not hold the world hostage in his books; violence takes place off-page; and if there is sex, it is wistful rather than graphic, tinged with the foreknowledge that pleasure seldom lasts...