Thriller – Is It Worth the Watch?

The African Queen (1951)

30 October, 2022 Michael Weaver 0 Comments 5 categories

Rewatching director John Huston’s 1951 masterpiece, The African Queen, which I hadn’t seen in a very long time, I discovered it not only holds up, but looks like it could have been filmed yesterday. Almost nothing about it

Death on the Nile (2022)

28 October, 2022 Michael Weaver 0 Comments 1 category

A film doesn’t always have to be earth-shattering or cutting-edge or industry-changing, and the 2022 remake of Death on the Nile certainly isn’t. It’s old-fashioned to a fault, however that’s one of its immense charms. Director/Star Kenneth Branagh returns

Raise the Titanic (1980)

27 October, 2022 Michael Weaver 0 Comments 2 categories

Talk about a disaster. The 1980 direct-hit-to-the-iceberg Raise the Titanic lost so much money on its original release, producer Lou Grade famously said, “It would’ve been cheaper to lower the Atlantic.“ I can understand why. The ridiculously improbable plot has

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

24 October, 2022 Michael Weaver 0 Comments 3 categories

You know those movies you’ve wanted to see for years but for whatever reason you can’t find them, and then when you finally do, you’re terribly disappointed? That is not the case with 1955’s The

Category: Thriller

The African Queen (1951)

Death on the Nile (2022)

Raise the Titanic (1980)

The Night of the Hunter (1955)