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