Thriller
Rod Lott
First things first: Please watch this trailer:

Thriller
Rod Lott
Whip cracks, cowboy hats and all, "Catch .44" is a crime film with a strong Western flavor, but Quentin Tarantino informs the proceedings more than anything else.

Thriller
Rod Lott
David Lynch bounced back from the big-scale disaster of 1984's "Dune" by going back to what he knows best: darker-than-ink perversity.

Thriller
Rod Lott
For a release marked "Action Double Feature," this Shout! Factory disc sure lacks, well, action. "Crime Double Feature" would be far more apt. However, it wouldn't make the movies any better.

Thriller
Rod Lott
There's a scene in "Kidnapped" in which our protagonist wakes up to find his hands tied and his head wrapped in a plastic bag. In which he stumbles blindly to the road, only to get hit by a car. In which the driver lets him use a cell phone to call his family to warn them of the approaching kidnappers. In which his daughter tells him they've already arrived, and "shot Mom."

Thriller
Rod Lott
It's fitting that a movie about being haunted by the ghost of a former spouse stars the woman who did more to destroy the so-called "sanctity of marriage" than Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor.

Thriller
Rod Lott
Here's the Michael Crichton movie you've never seen, probably because you may not have realized it was based on Crichton at all.

Thriller
Rod Lott
Eva Amurri's still new enough on the scene to be known as "Susan Sarandon's daughter." Give her time. Inheriting not only Mom's stunning looks, but ease in front of the camera, she's well on her way to making a name for herself.

Thriller
Rod Lott
Not by much, mind you, but "Carjacked" is smarter than the stupid tagline adorning its cover: "It's her car. Don't tell her what to do with it."

Thriller
Rod Lott
Asian film enthusiasts swear by "The Stool Pigeon," a critically acclaimed Hong Kong hit from last year. While I've now watched Well Go USA's Blu-ray release of it three times now, it strikes me as not spectacular, but certainly a more-than-serviceable exercise in action and suspense.

Thriller
Rod Lott
Since the 2005 French thriller "13 Tzameti" was pretty good on its own, why bother to remake it? I have a theory: Sad to say, most Americans won't willingly watch movies that are in black and white, or have subtitles, or don't have famous faces they recognize. And they sure as hell won't watch movies that fall into all three categories of "liabilities," as "13 Tzameti" does.

Thriller
Rod Lott
While the box reads "Good Neighbors," the credits read "Good Neighbours." Regardless of spelling, the Canadian thriller from writer/director Jacob Tierney is intelligent, suspenseful and almost unpredictable.

Thriller
Rod Lott
For newcomers to 1956's "The Bad Seed," its age and black-and-white nature are plusses, diminishing expectations to how diabolical it really is. Although the title says it all — this girl is evil, EVIL! — you'll be surprised how much the story gets away with for such conservative times.

Thriller
Rod Lott
So simple is the story of Gaston Leroux's 1911 novel, "The Phantom of the Opera," that it continues to be remade on stage and screen. More interesting, however, are not its adaptations, but those that tweak the setting to more contemporary, even oddball venues.

Thriller
Rod Lott
Promises the cover of 1968’s “The Venetian Affair” from Warner Archive, “Murder! Spies! Women!” They left off “Disappointment!” Released in conjunction with a multi-disc set of “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” feature films, the film stars Napoleon Solo himself, Robert Vaughn, but as ex-spy Bill Fenner, and with the espionage exploits as straight and bleak as “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.”