Film, Spies, Thriller
Film: Black Sunday
John Frankenheimer’s output from the 1960s is stylish, stirring, and memorable, but his later work doesn’t tend to work…
August 2, 2022-
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Film, SpiesFilm: Ronin
Revisiting John Frankenheimer’s spy thriller Ronin (1998) over the weekend, I was struck by how old it looked, a…
March 25, 2020 -
TelevisionTV: Homecoming (Season 1)
Based, remarkably, on a podcast, Amazon Prime’s Homecoming is another feather in the cap for Sam Esmail, creator of…
January 3, 2019 -
Film, History, World War IIFilm: The Train
There’s something about director John Frankenheimer’s output from the 1960s that speaks to my aesthetic. Add his anti-war war…
March 10, 2018 -
Film, SpiesFilm: The Holcroft Covenant
I spent most of The Holcroft Covenant (1985) thinking to myself: “Is this really the same John Frankenheimer who…
March 6, 2017 -
FilmFilm: Hysteria
What happens when Hammer Films throws its hat into the Hitchcockian thriller ring? The answer, quite literally, is Hysteria…
February 13, 2017 -
Film, Spies, Spy 100 ProjectSpy 100, #6: The Manchurian Candidate
Its inclusion on the list is unassailable, but on this viewing I wonder if The Manchurian Candidate (1962) might be…
December 29, 2014 -
Film, SpiesFilm: Seven Days in May
John Frankenheimer’s conspiracy thriller Seven Days in May (1964) is considered the middle chapter in his “paranoia trilogy,” a…
September 8, 2014 -
Film, Science FictionFilm: Seconds
On first viewing, years ago, John Frankenheimer’s Seconds (1966) made a powerful impression on me. I’ve been wanting to…
July 21, 2014 -
FilmFilm: Mirage
An intriguing, Twilight-Zoney thriller, Mirage (1965) is definitely a product of its era, but it’s quirky and still quite…
February 13, 2014 -
Fantasy, Fiction, Spies, ThrillerNovel: Mind’s Eye by Paul McAuley
I enjoyed a pair of Paul McAuley‘s near-futurish thrillers from earlier in the decade, Whole Wide World and White…
October 27, 2009