Carl Franklin was a busy actor, primarily on TV, when he turned director; he did a few films for Roger Corman, including "Full Fathom Five" (1990), then in 1992, directed "One False Move," a tense, involving latter-day film noir. This...
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"Wrong Turn" is tense and well-directed, and was successful enough to produce two straight-to-video sequels, which seem to have just replayed more or less the same story. Which would make them very blurred carbons, since the original film itself is...
"It's so horribly sad," says one character, "how is it I feel like laughing?" In a sense, replacing "sad" with "suspenseful," this could be said about "North by Northwest" itself. Alfred Hitchcock and his screenwriter Ernest Lehman intended it as...
Cormac McCarthy took the title of his novel "No Country for Old Men" from the first line of William Butler Yeates' "Sailing to Byzantium," a poem about old age. The book, and movie, are not about old age, but partly...
"Nights in Rodanthe" is a well-acted, competently-written movie shot in an almost impossibly-beautiful but ruggedly rustic house on the shore of one of North Carolina's "Outer Banks," not far from Cape Hatteras National Seashore. This is an area that's been...
"South Pacific" is one of the great, almost legendary, hits of Broadway, running almost five years in its initial engagement. It starred Mary Martin and opera baritone Ezio Pinza; many standards originated in the show--"Some Enchanted Evening," "Younger than Springtime,"...
"GoodFellas" is so good, even triumphant, in so many ways it's just about impossible to know where to begin. The movie is so rich and detailed that half an hour into it, I could hardly wait to see it again,...
Some have described this warm, ingratiating movie as a "chick flick," probably because the main characters are all female and because it doesn't have any action, although it opens with a shooting. But it's a serious, sincere movie; most viewers...
