MW
MW, by Osamu Tezuka 7.5 I picked this brick up solely on Tezuka’s reputation. I can’t say that I’m a big fan, having only explored a few of his works […]
Tag Archives: Suspense
High Noon
Synopsis: Gary Cooper won the Oscar for the Best Actor in this classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of righteous cowards in the greatest […]
Grandville
Grandville, by Bryan Talbot 8.0 While the cover may not suggest it, ‘Grandville’ is more than a mere action comic. Sure, it has quite its share of action (more on […]
L’ennemi, vol. 1: Les mouches
L’ennemi, vol. 1: Les mouches, by Thierry Robberecht, Albert Pagliaro and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini 5.5 I grabbed this book off the cuff while I was at the library, browsing. I […]
No Country for Old Men
Synopsis: There Are No Clean Getaways Acclaimed filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen deliver their most gripping and ambitious film yet in this sizzling and supercharged action-thriller. When a man stumbles […]
The Player
Synopsis: Making Movies can be Murder. A studio script screener gets on the bad side of a writer by not accepting his script. The writer is sending him threatening postcards. […]
Ten Little Indians (1965)
Synopsis: One Of Agatha Christie’s Best-Loved Mysteries Ten people – eight strangers and two married domestics-attend a posh weekend at a remote castle. What’s the occasion? Each has unwittingly been […]
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween 8.25 Included on the Blu-ray and the 3-DVD edition of ‘Halloween (2007)’, this exhaustive behind the scenes documentary covers it all. From pre-production to […]
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Synopsis: This smart and suspenseful thriller scares up a bone-chilling good time with original scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis (You Again) and a hot cast of hip young stars! Now […]
Terror In The Aisles
Synopsis: A chilling excursion through the great horror movies, this compilation is not one to watch alone. Scenes from ‘Jaws,’ ‘Psycho,’ ‘Alien,’ ‘Poltergeist,’ ‘King Kong,’ ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ and more […]
Halloween II (1981)
Synopsis: Picking up precisely where its predecessor left off, Halloween II follows the same ill-fated characters as they encounter the knife-wielding maniac they left for dead in the first Halloween. […]
Irredeemable, vol. 1
Irredeemable, vol. 1 by Mark Waid and Peter Krause 7.75 What would happen if the world’s greatest superhero, The Plutonian, became one of the bad guys? What if everything he […]
Trick ‘r Treat
Synopsis (spoiler alert!): A creepy, darkly comic celebration of the scariest night of the year from producer Bryan Singer (director of X-Men and Superman Return) and writer-director Michael Dougherty (co-scripter […]
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