Eye of the Beholder (1999)
Eye of the Beholder is the perfect example of why it’s a disaster to try to make an art film out of a standard thriller. Stephan Elliott, acclaimed for his work on The Adventures of...
Category: Mystery
The Bone Collector (1999)
Perhaps the biggest problem with the faceless killer gimmick is that when you finally see who the perpetrator is, more often than not the revelation sinks the film from being effective to laughably ludicrous. The...
True Crime (1999)
An Oakland journalist, alcoholic and womanizer (Eastwood), is given the job to write a human interest story about a man who is slated to be executed that evening (Washington). The label on the reporter...
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
A computer genius (Bierko) creates a company to invent a virtual world where people can travel into, and which resembles 1937 America in detail. But while going into his virtual world, he discovers something important...
Spellbound (1945)
An amnesiac (Peck) assumes the identity of a missing man named Dr. Edwards who was about to become the head of a psychiatric institution. He is soon discovered by a fellow female doctor (Bergman)...
Malice (1993)
Tracy (Kidman) and her college professor, Andy (Pullman), fall in love and get married, but have been unsuccessful in having children. Andy runs into a doctor (Baldwin) who is from the same school he...
Rear Window (1954)
In my humble opinion, Rear Window is one of the true masterpieces of cinema. To this day, I can’t find one aspect of this film that doesn’t inspire a feeling of awe, from Hitchcock’s (Strangers on...
Snake Eyes (1998)
There’s a heavyweight championship bout going on in an Atlantic City casino, and the Secretary of Defense is in attendance. Shockingly, he is also assassinated during the fight, and although the assassin was taken...
Blue Velvet (1986)
Here’s one of these polarizing movies you either love or hate. I guess I fit into the former category, though I must admit writer-director Lynch (Mulholland Drive, The Elephant Man) has never impressed me...
The 39 Steps (1935)
Robert Donat plays Richard Hannay, a Canadian visiting London who travels to a local show. Gunshots erupt, and during the mad dash for the exits, he bumps into a woman (Mannheim), asking to go...