Leave it to Dario Argento (Suspiria) to cook up a truly stomach-flipping installment in Showtime’s Masters of Horror series. Argento’s hour-long Jenifer has an uncluttered through-line that combines a relentlessly destructive film noir plot with zombie attitude. Steven Weber plays a cop who kills a man about to harm a disfigured woman named Jenifer. Weber […]
Archives for October 2015
Hysteria
Hysteria brings the highly unlikely yet true story of a young doctor Dr. Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) in London, 1880, who is struggling but eventually finds a job with Dr. Robert Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce). Dalrymple is treating women for the so-called hysteria disease, really a catch-all for any and all things supposedly wrong with women […]
Saboteur
Saboteur is a riveting wartime thriller starring Robert Cummings as Barry Kane, a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses a Nazi agent firebombing the plant where he works. Of course, it is Barry who is accused of the fiery sabotage, and to clear his name he sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase […]
Torn Curtain
In Torn Curtain, Paul Newman plays cold war physicist Michael Armstrong, while Julie Andrews plays his lovely assistant-and-fiancée, Sarah Sherman. Armstrong has been working on a missile defense system intended to make nuclear defense obsolete, and naturally both sides are very interested. All Sarah cares about is the fact that Michael has been acting awfully […]