Articles tagged "thriller"

News

Michael Jackson couldn’t maintain the success of his blockbuster album

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[6.Jul.09] :. The record will show that Michael Jackson died June 25, but in many ways he was dead creatively long before that. The beginning of the end can be traced to Nov. 30, 1982 — the day...

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Books Review

The Narcissist’s Daughter by Craig Holden

by Peter Swanson

[2.Jul.08] :. One of the better literary thrillers I’ve read in a long while, a revenge tale that twists into a well-constructed edge-of-your- sofa-cushion murder story.

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Books Review

Manhattan Nocturne: by Colin Harrison

by Michael Antman

[4.Jun.08] :. The story turns on the fate of two illicitly filmed voyeur videos – the saddest and strangest sexual encounters ever conceived.

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News

Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ turns 25

by Glenn Gamboa [Newsday (MCT)]

[12.Feb.08] :. It should be a no-brainer. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the biggest-selling album in music history by reworking several of its best-known hits with today’s hottest singers and producers...

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Capsule Reviews

Blaze by Richard Bachman

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[18.Jul.07] :. Calamity follows lonely, brain-damaged Clayton Blaisdell Jr. in Blaze, written 30 years ago.

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News

Anthony Hopkins takes another villainous turn in ‘Fracture’

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. Hopkins: "When I tell people that I just learn my lines and that's all there is to it, my wife thinks that I'm putting down the craft of acting."

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Perfect Stranger (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Apr.07] :. While it begins dully enough for an investigative thriller, Perfect Stranger quickly skids off into abject foolishness.

 

Halle Berry’s Academy Award has made all the difference

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[11.Apr.07] :. "There was a time, before Oscar, when I could not have even got in the room with certain directors."

 

The Lookout (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Mar.07] :. Gordon-Levitt makes Chris' efforts to look at himself honestly seem quite complicated, a series of steps both typical and original.