Tag: thriller
Gone Girl
When the movie opens on a quiet July morning in a small Missouri town there is no visible indication we are looking at a man who has falling on hard times. It turns out that Nick Frost has been been virtually unemployed since being laid off from his job on a magazine in NY and…
The Two Faces of January
After a overly long gestation period this lesser-known psychological thriller from novelist Patricia Highsmith finally makes it to the big screen. The year is 1962 and the story opens on the sunny steps of the Acropolis where two American tourists, Chester McFarland and his much younger bride Collette, are having fun enjoying the splendor of the…
The German Doctor aka Wakolda
In the opening scenes of this historical drama we see a distinguished looking German gentleman accosting a traveling family of 5 to ask if he may follow behind them as he is unsure about driving alone on the desolate dirt roads in the middle of the vast plains of Patagonia. The year is 1960 and…
A Most Wanted Man
In Dutch filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s take on John le Carré’s spy thriller we are very much aware of who ‘the most wanted man’ is, but like Gunther Bachmann, a German Intelligence Officer in Hamburg, we never know why he has earned this title. Gunther is very much the ‘good man’ in this intricate web of international spy/terrorist…
THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH aka ‘La femme du Vème’
When Tom an American College Professor and one-time author arrives in Paris he tells the Immigration Officer he is there to visit his wife and child. What he doesn’t reveal is that she has a Court Restraining Order out and refuses to let him see their daughter. When Tom stalks the girl the police are…
