Wes Craven’s 1984 horror film is a better movie than it is generally credited for being. Forget the tawdry sequels; this highly original, almost surrealist work stars Robert Englund as a mutilated monster who kills teenagers during their dreams.Craven takes the Hitchcockian step of layering in psychological explanations for the terror and then proving them […]
Zodiac
The film opens on July 4, 1969, with the Zodiac killer’s second attack, the shooting of Darlene Ferrin (Ciara Hughes) and Mike Mageau (Lee Norris) at a lovers’ lane in Vallejo, California. Mageau survives while Ferrin dies from her injuries. One month later, a letter written by the Zodiac arrives at the San Francisco Chronicle. […]
Mr. Lucky: The Series
Mr. Lucky (John Vivyan) was an honest professional gambler who had won a plush floating casino, the ship Fortuna, and used it as his base of operations. Staying beyond the 3-mile limit, where he could operate a gambling ship legally, Mr. Lucky played host to a wide variety of people, all of whom came to […]
The Manchurian Candidate
When Sergeant Raymond Shaw’s (Liev Schreiber) army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, he saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer Captain Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) was knocked unconscious. Shaw uses the incident for political gain, eventually becoming a vice-presidential nominee. Meanwhile Marco is haunted by dreams of what he think […]
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