Word: thriller
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...deep into the new thriller Edge of Darkness. People are dying violently every few minutes; conspiracy theories are sprouting like kudzu. And Mel Gibson, as a Boston cop trying to find his daughter's killers, tells somebody it's the moment of truth. "You had better decide," he says, "whether you're hangin' on the cross or bangin' in the nails." Ouch. It's a reminder that Gibson, the movie star, is also Gibson, the director of the polarizing religious epic The Passion of the Christ, in which his one onscreen appearance showed him driving the first nail into Jesus...
...nearby plant run by the usual oily CEO (Danny Huston). In streamlining the original show's cast of malefactors, which included British and U.S. corporations and intelligence agencies, trade unions and the IRA, the movie reduces the story from a panoramic conspiracy to another one-guy-against-the-system thriller, and Edge loses its political edge...
...performance, Guest encourages students to seek out the lesser known works in the collection, especially “Targets” and “Saint Jack.” “Targets” documents the life of a crazed serial killer in a reinvention of the thriller genre. Simultaneously, Bogdanovich presents a parallel story line in which the director himself profiles aging horror film legend Boris Karloff in the twilight of his career. Guest feels that while the sensationalism of the former plot line and the bittersweet sentimentality of the latter may appear diametrically opposed, they nonetheless...
...ultimate irony of “Sherlock Holmes” is that it is every sort of movie except a mystery. Guy Ritchie’s adaptation of the adventures of the sleuth of Baker Street is by turns a thriller, an action movie, and a comedy—and in each of these, it succeeds. But a truly great film would take its cue from what made Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s series so great—the mind-bending experience of witnessing Sherlock Holmes rewrite the story the audience thought they understood into an entirely...
Another Guruge who had a stellar day played on Harvard’s side, as the sophomore faced Nayelly Hernandez Perez in a five-game thriller. Like Tiong on Sunday, Guruge came back to win it from two games down...