A journalist in France (Kristin Scott-Thomas) in a rocky marriage becomes obsessed with the fate of a child whose family was arrested, along with thousands of others, during the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup of 1942.  What the journalist doesn’t realize is […]

Although Jaws made me afraid to go in any body of water larger than a bathtub, I’ve always loved shark movies, despite so many of them being, well, awful.  Shark Night 3-D had possibilities, even beginning with an attack reminiscent of Chrissie’s […]

The philosophical mystery thriller The Debt questions whether the quest for truth should trump a nasty situation in which an expedient lie provided easy answers for the world but left lasting psychological repercussions for three people bound together by their actions. […]

Contagion is the latest medical pandemic thriller from Hollywood, following in the tradition of Panic in the Streets (1950) and Outbreak (1995).  The deja vu factor of Contagion is that it reminded me of the all-star disaster flicks of the 1970s.  Then, we were wondering who […]