Thrillers

Whedon’s A Goner

Variety reported that Universal Pictures has paid seven figures for Goners, a fantasy thriller spec script Joss Whedon wrote and will direct. Film will be produced by Mary Parent and Scott Stuber. The studio premiered Whedon’s directorial debut, Serenity, on Thursday night at Universal City Walk. Pic opens Sept. 30. Whedon doesn’t give much detail ….

Fall Film Synopses for 2005

Here are some of what we have to look forward to this Fall film season. The long-awaited adaptation of the best seller “Memoirs of a Geisha,” director Rob Marshall’s follow-up to “Chicago,” stars Ziyi Zhang as a poor Japanese girl who becomes a geisha goddess. Other big films include Steven Spielberg’s “Munich,” a thriller about ….

The Constant Gardner

In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa’s companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa’s widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the ….

Yes film synopsis

Some kind of polemical erotic fable from the British filmmaker Sally Potter, moved to contrive a variation on “Hiroshima, mon amour” in the aftermath of September 11. She casts Joan Allen as an adulterous wife who leaves husband Sam Neill in Paris to pursue a Middle-Eastern lover to Beirut. The affair is ornamented by dialogue ….

Shadow of a Doubt

One of Hitchcock’s earlier films released in 1943 starring Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright. This movie is very suspenseful and shows why the well loved director is the father of the suspense thriller. Cotten plays Charlie, a lonely drifter decides to visit his older sister and her family in Santa Rosa California. Young Charlie, played ….

Case #5: High Tension, War of the Worlds, Push Off, I’m On Vacation

This Week’s Case(s): High Tension/War of the Worlds/Push Off, I’m On Vacation That’s right. I’m at the Aqua Teen famed South Jersey Shore. Rather than getting all uppity at A.O. Scott for shit-canning some mildly obscure sequel to a big budget softcore vampire noir, I’d rather just briefly tell you why recent releases High Tension ….

Case #4: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

This Week’s Case: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Released: 1993 Director: Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm Starring: The Voices of Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Abe Vigoda, and Mark Hamill Synopsis: A new villain, The Phantasm, is murdering its way through the Gotham underworld all the while leading police to believe that Batman has turned to homicide. The plot thickens ….

What’s Next for Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore is in negotiations to star opposite Clive Owen in the Alfonso Cuaron-helmed sci-fi movie Children of Men, Variety reported. Strike Entertainment is producing the adaptation of P.D. James’ novel for Universal Pictures, set to start production in September. Children of Men would wrap in time for Moore to move over to another sci-fi ….