Search Details

Word: thrillers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...between them in goods and investment, making each the other's most important market. Who's the biggest employer in France after the government? The 1,250 American companies operating there. What were the top movies in Germany last week? Mel Gibson's What Women Want and the Hollywood thriller Hannibal. Vivendi owns Universal, Daimler owns Chrysler, and top Daimler executives (like many in multinational European companies) are required to speak English. It's true that Hispanic and Asian immigration and business ties are shifting America's focus to the south and west, and that all the transatlantic cultural overlap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Kind of Allies? | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

Genius, so much fiction tells us, is the flip side of madness. In this busy, woozy thriller, a psychotic park dweller known as the Caveman (Samuel L. Jackson) is afflicted with "brain typhoons" and visions of "moth-seraphs." That gives him just the intuition needed to sleuth out a murder case involving a chic photographer (Colm Feore) of the Mapplethorpe stripe. The Caveman has lapses of logic, but fewer than you will find in George Dawes Green's improbable script. Despite Jackson's typically bravura turn, this Valentine massacre marks a step backward for the gifted director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Caveman's Valentine | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...said he thought the film succeeded as a thriller, but said he had mixed-feelings on its historical value...

Author: By Allison I. Rogers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Defense Secretary Discusses Cuban Missile Crisis | 2/22/2001 | See Source »

When these two teams met last month in Cambridge, the Bulldogs won an overtime thriller and managed to shut down Crimson forward Dan Clemente, the team's leading scorer...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Title Hopes Fade as M. Basketball Loses to Yale and Brown | 2/20/2001 | See Source »

...Hong Kong movies, melodrama is never mellow, and Yuen is ever eager to place women in apalling jeopardy. DoDo Cheng gets kicked into barbed wire in the 1988 Tiger Cage. An even snazzier thriller, the 1989 In the Line of Duty 4, has plucky Cynthia Kahn battle a predator on the top of, on the side of and nearly under a speeding ambulance; later she takes on two thugs as the hero's mom hangs trussed from a 12-m rope next to an electrified fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yuen Wo-Ping, Martial Master | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

Previous | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | Next