21 (2008)
Loosely based on the nonfiction book, “Bringing Down the House”, by Ben Mezrich, this highly sensationalized account of how several MIT students (who were mainly Asian in reality) employed a lucrative card counting system...
Category: Thriller
Rope (1948)
Hitchcock’s (Suspicion, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) first color film is also one of his most renown. It is one of his most experimental films, as he decides to try to tell this tale from beginning...
Jumper (2008)
My advice to studios: don’t plan for a trilogy when you can’t even get the first film developed thoroughly. This is what happens when a good idea gets studio-botched by too many people with...
Witness (1985)
Director Peter Weir (The Mosquito Coast, The Truman Show), in his first American production, crafts this thriller based on subtle touches and honest characterizations to success. His film would earn 8 Academy Award nominations, including...
North by Northwest (1959)
Although many people associate the famous scene of Cary Grant (To Catch a Thief, Suspicion) being chased out in farm country by a crop-duster with the movie as a whole, that stretch of film alone...
Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
The most comedic of the Beverly Hills Cop films turns out to be the least amusing, despite a veteran director (Landis, An American Werewolf in London) and screenwriter (de Souza, Hudson Hawk), ones who have worked with Murphy...
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
“More of the same” perhaps was the prevailing mantra during every phase of the conception for this sequel to the 2004 hit National Treasure, as it basically covers every base touched by the first film...
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Rather than calling this basically in-name-only sequel to the successful De Palma directed outing of 1996 Mission: Impossible, they really should have just called it John Woo XI. This basically is just a continuation of the...
Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)
Die Hard 2: Die Harder is already inherently pushing the limits of credibility by having the same character involved in a similar plot of battling terrorists at their point of attack. Some might view it...
Dick Tracy (1990)
Following on the heels of the ravenously successful Batman, director-star Warren Beatty (Heaven Can Wait, Bonnie and Clyde) gives us another crime-fighting detective from around the same era, full of stylish artwork, sets, and a score...