Tag: What Lies Beneath
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What Lies Beneath Had Harrison Ford Marvelously Playing Against Type
In the fading summer of 1999, Robert Zemeckis took a break from the filming of Cast Away to make What Lies Beneath, a ghostly thriller set against the banks of Lake Champlain in picturesque Burlington, Vermont. Taking cues from several Old Hollywood classics of the genre but adding a spectral twist to proceedings, Zemeckis went…
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‘The Woman in the Window’ Review: A Housebound Thriller, Starring Amy Adams as an Agoraphobe, That’s Too Contrived to Thrill
Real-estate porn can work for a thriller — or against it. Sometimes, it’s part of a movie’s mystery and allure: the luxe nooks and crannies where bad vibes can hide. (See “Rosemary’s Baby” or “What Lies Beneath.”) But in “The Woman in the Window,” the stately Harlem brownstone in which Anna Fox (Amy Adams) lives…
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Water Cooler: Force Friday, Joker, Gemini Man, Watchmen, Dark Harbor, Marianne, House of Torment, What Lies Beneath
On the October 9, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler. Opening Banter: We Are All Back Together! At…