Word: whodunit
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...kinky sex (a personal favorite for weirdness is the drugged-out scene between Karen and a girl dressed as Alice in Wonderland)—enough of the latter for the MPAA to slap the movie with an NC-17 rating. Underneath all that, however, is a simplistic whodunit (was it the loose cannon? The straight arrow? The butler?) without too many character nuances getting in the way. Scenes with the mother of the dead girl, intended to add a more human dimension to the murder, tend toward the maudlin and ill-advised. The central scene of the movie, which...
Well, for starters, the movie never tries to shove a lesson down your throat, and is driven not by characters’ quest to attain a moral high ground, but simply works as a nicely warped whodunit. Cinephiles will appreciate the homages to classic horror flicks sprinkled throughout the script. And if for no other reason, keep in mind that as hand-drawn animation quickly disappearing from screens, Wallace and Gromit may be the final vestiges of a manifestly man-made medium all too quickly succumbing to machinery...
...although the expected buckets of bodily fluids are there, “Venom” lacks suspense and tension. The killer’s identity is known from the beginning, eliminating the whodunit element so crucial to keeping most slasher flicks watchable. And when the fiend is not killing people during the day, he’s driving around town as if his tow truck were an ice-cream truck...
Annie Anderson is a serious, investigative journalist who goes to work for Handbag, a fashion magazine. When the designer she's profiling takes two slugs in the chest, Annie is plunged into two surefire plots: a whodunit and a satirical fashion-world expos. Baker is the editor of Britain's Cosmopolitan, so she knows whereof she writes--and she actually writes well. Annie and her colleagues have real inner demons to nip at the heels of their Manolos. By the end of Fashion Victim, you may even believe that models have feelings...
...books you own, the way you decorate your house, whether you wear a tie or not are all signs of something else," he explains. "That's semiotics in a nutshell." His earlier novels neatly adapt this philosophy to the thriller format - Rose, for example, is a medieval whodunit set in a monastery, Foucault's Pendulum a conspiracy of sects and secret societies. The new storyline plunges the author into a forensic examination of nostalgia. "By definition, the word nostalgia is the desire to return, to return to childhood or your 20s or 30s," says Eco, adding, "I'm fine where...