Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thriller Truth Game, one of seven he has written in his spare time, Douglas Hurd described a British Prime Minister whose Cabinet waffles over a decision to send troops to a distant island republic. But the Foreign Secretary's firm response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait has united Britain behind the government's policies and won him high praise from fellow Tories...
BAXTER. A vicious bull terrier (who growls the narration) finally finds an owner meaner than he is. Jerome Boivin's minimalist French thriller is no carnival of canine violence. It rarely goes for the jugular, yet it drains the viewer bloodless...
...story seems straight from the pages of a political thriller. During the early days of the cold war, the Italian government, assisted by the CIA, sets up a clandestine paramilitary network designed to resist a communist invasion. Code name: Operation Gladio, as in a gladiator's double-edged sword. Skip ahead to last July, when a Venetian magistrate named Felice Casson, investigating a 1970s car bombing in Peteano, uncovers the network while searching through files at SISMI, the Italian intelligence service. When Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti admits Gladio did exist, a national scandal ensues. Most disturbing are suspicions that renegade...
...least for the purpose of this new techno-thriller, his best by far since The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton accepts the charge that genetic research these days is a headlong, unregulated profit-and-glory grab by microbiologists with more skill than wisdom. Suppose, says Crichton, that a respectable paleozoologist (call him Alan Grant) begins to get increasingly detailed queries from a secretive corporate donor about what infant dinosaurs ate. Grant sends in his best guess. More questions follow, and they have a ring of urgency. What is this...
...coordinated by Courtney Sale Ross, offer no definitive portrait. But they do provide a vivid personality sketch in bold -- and, in the film, often demanding and dazzling -- strokes of a man who's written and played fine music, produced films (The Color Purple) and records (Michael Jackson's Thriller) and generally become an immutable force of show-business nature. Sort of a David O. Selznick as soulman...