The Frame

from the pen of Jandy Stone

Posts Tagged ‘murder’

The Shining

By Jandy • Oct 9th, 2007 • Category: Capsule Reviews

One of my friends was totally flabbergasted when I told her I hadn’t seen The Shining. So she made me watch it, despite the fact that I a) don’t like horror movies and b) don’t like eighties movies. And you know, she was right. How Kubrick manages to take a movie with acting this bad [...]



Zodiac

By Jandy • Oct 9th, 2007 • Category: Capsule Reviews

Serial killer movies fascinate me, especially the ones where the killer leaves clues to his identity to taunt the police. So I was totally primed to love David Fincher’s Zodiac. I think without a rewatch, I’m going to say that I liked it a lot, and it was extremely well-done, but I’m not sure I [...]



D.O.A.

By Jandy • Sep 14th, 2007 • Category: Capsule Reviews, Film Reviews, meta

A man staggers into a police office to report a murder…his own. He’s been poisoned with an antidote-less poison, and he spends the rest of the film trying to convince the police what’s happened and trying to figure out who poisoned him and why. It’s all tied up with various crime rings and such, I [...]



The Letter

By Jandy • Sep 14th, 2007 • Category: Capsule Reviews

Bette Davis shoots a man on her front porch, claiming self-defense–but as could be expected, there’s more to the story, bound up in the letter of the title. It’s a good Davis vehicle, but not great. She owns the screen, but I’m not sure it’s worth her. It’s a strange, strange day when I start [...]



Green for Danger

By Jandy • Jul 24th, 2007 • Category: Capsule Reviews, Uncategorized

Rather slight but entertaining British WWII black comedy/suspenser. Alistair Sim, as perfect as ever, plays a detective brought in to solve a murder committed among a group of army doctors and nurses, a task made more difficult by the suspects’ complex romantic involvements and friendships; basically, all of them have motive and opportunity. This film [...]