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...Sixth Sense, the story of a boy with the ability to see the souls of dead people, wasn't a conventional thriller. It was reserved and meticulous, making its surprise ending that much more electrifying. "Any story is more powerful if you can relate to it in your own life," says Shyamalan. "In The Sixth Sense my approach was, Don't light the hallways with blue scary lights. Nobody's hallway looks like that, so it's not going to affect people. Make it look like your hallway when the lights go down. Now put someone walking through it when...
...Skyler, Stephen Barker Turner, Erica Leerhsen and Kim Director) know the first film was fake and are cynical of the industry built around it, yet get sucked into the legend. Then everyone goes nuts--this time with flash cuts and gross-out special effects. An all-in-the-mind thriller degenerates into the Linda Blair Witch Project...
...sold - until informed that customers had to buy five items in order to qualify for the 75 percent discount. To understand the disappointment and betrayal I felt at that moment, you should watch the slickly edited, thump- thumping trailer for "The Contender," psych yourself up for a thriller, then, when it opens Oct. 13, pay $8 to see what's actually a thoughtful political drama starring Joan Allen in business suits and Gary Oldman in a Mike Brady perm. You may want to stage a walkout yourself, and that's just what I did at Fred Segal, vowing...
Near the conclusion of Gore Vidal's Washington, D.C. (1967), a political thriller spanning the years 1937-52, the novel's hero, Peter Sanford, expresses irritable despair at the human condition as he has observed it in his treacherous hometown: "There was never a golden age. There will never be a golden age and it is sheer romance to think we can ever be other than what we are now." Now, 33 years later, Sanford pops up again as the protagonist of another Vidal novel, set in the same place and roughly the same time, and readers familiar with...
When New York Times reporters James Risen and Jeff Gerth broke it on March 6, 1999, the story of Wen Ho Lee carried the plot line of a first-rate cold war thriller. In case the gravity of the security breach was lost on readers, the Times evoked the memory of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of--and executed for--leaking nuclear secrets from the same lab to the Soviet Union. The paper quoted a former CIA official as saying the case was "going to be just as bad as the Rosenbergs...