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The Complex History of 'Gay Panic' and the 2001 Thriller
The Deep End
The 1947 novel is about protecting a teenage daughter's sexual 'virtue'. The 2001 film changes that character to a gay son, and plays with how his sexuality leads to a domestic panic.
By
Matthew John Phillips
| April 16, 2021
Escape Your Travel Limitations With These 10 International Thriller Series
South African spies, Tokyo gangsters, and crooked Aussie politicians: check out these series from across the globe.
By
Kris Calvin
| April 14, 2021
Hitchcock, The Voyeur: Why
Rear Window
Remains the Director's Definitive Film
Hitchcock was a master of obsessive looking and daydreamed about filming acts of sexual voyeurism. In
Rear Window
, he found a new vision.
By
Edward White
| April 13, 2021
The 100 Best, Worst, and Strangest Sherlock Holmes Portrayals of All-Time, Ranked
Once you eliminate the least compelling Sherlock Holmes performances, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the best.
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| April 8, 2021
Ian Pearce, Location Manager for
Lewis
, Talks Filming in Oxford with Frederick Weisel
"Few mystery series owed as much as Lewis did to its locations, where crimes were committed and investigated among the staid, historic Oxford colleges"
By
Frederick Weisel
| April 5, 2021
The Relationships Were What Made 'Justified' Truly Special—They're Why We're Still Watching Today
Over six seasons, 'Justified' explored the complex, twisted roots of Elmore Leonard's distinct vision of Harlan County.
By
Keith Roysdon
| April 2, 2021
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Which International Thriller Should You Binge This Weekend?
By
Dwyer Murphy
| April 2, 2021
Few Films Understand the History of Blackmail and Queer Criminalization Better than Basil Dearden’s
Victim
By
Victoria Wiet
| April 1, 2021
Revisiting
The Anderson Tapes
, Sidney Lumet's Wisely Paranoid Heist Film, 50 Years Later
By
Jesse Pasternack
| March 26, 2021
Comfort in the Uncomfortable: How Christopher Nolan Uses Noir to Get Weird
For decades, Nolan has been playing with the tropes of noir and daring viewers to go somewhere unexpected.
By
Nick Kolakowski
| March 26, 2021
Hitchcock Presents: A Brief History of the Weird, Wild Hitchcock Shows That Once Dominated TV
In the 1960s, Alfred Hitchcock was everywhere, and his anthology series became a hotbed for young talent and strange stories.
By
Keith Roysdon
| March 24, 2021
That Time Scientists Discovered a Creature in Loch Ness and Then Realized It Was a Sunken Prop from
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
An amazing example of life imitating art, concerning a movie about how the Loch Ness Monster isn't really the Loch Ness Monster.
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| March 22, 2021
Betrayal Is Timeless: The Evolution of George Smiley
In 1961, John le Carré's readers were introduced to a new kind of spy, a “breathtakingly ordinary” man.
By
Bruce Riordan
| March 19, 2021
Cutter and Bone: Two Masterpieces Deserve Their Proper Due
Four decades on, Newton Thornburg's novel and the Ivan Passer adaptation still resonate as a defining vision of modern America.
By
Zach Vasquez
| March 19, 2021
Fifty Years Later,
Get Carter
Is Still the Iconic British Gangster Film
How the Michael Caine revenge flick attained cult status and changed the face of British crime cinema.
By
Andrew Nette
| March 18, 2021
This Saint Patrick's Day, you should watch
The Fugitive
Most people don't realize that the beloved thriller is a "Saint Patrick's Day movie," or even what that means, but it is. Oh, it is.
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| March 17, 2021
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