Cinema Therapy Review

Cinema Therapy Therapist

Blowout

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Brian De Palma’s thriller is something of a homage to Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterful Blowup, though there are hints of Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoia-inducing Conversation sprinkled throughout. John Travolta plays a sound-effects man who witnesses what appears to be a tragic car accident killing a presidential candidate. The audio tape he happened to be recording at […]

Topaz

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Hitchcock hadn’t made a spy thriller since the 1930s, so his 1969 adaptation of Leon Uris’s bestseller seemed like a curious choice for the director. But Hitchcock makes Uris’s story of the West’s investigation into the Soviet Union’s dealings with Cuba his own. Frederick Stafford plays a French intelligence agent who works with his American […]

Bone Collector

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Released in late 1999, The Bone Collector turns the pulpy indulgence of Jeffery Deaver’s novel into a slick potboiler that is grisly interesting. Director Phillip Noyce expertly builds palpable tension around a series of gruesome murders that lead us into the darkest nooks of New York City. Now a bedridden quadriplegic prone to life-threatening seizures […]

Suspenseful Movies in Cinema Therapy

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Here is my updated list of the 10 most suspenseful movies of all time. While the term “suspenseful movie” is somewhat subjective, I focused on three main criteria: Is the movie so suspenseful that it could change someone’s behavior? Does the movie produce pleasurable excitement and anticipation regarding an outcome? Does the movie produce the […]