Equal parts Don’t Answer the Phone! and Barfly, When a Stranger Calls also puts seedy LA front and center. And it gets down to business with what’s now become a time-honored horror trope, one exploited by Wes Craven in Scream: the woman home alone receiving threatening phone calls originating from the basement. Here, it’s Jill (CarolContinue reading “When a Stranger Calls”
Monthly Archives: August 2018
The Edge
From downtown…from Mitch & Murray, Mr. Steak Knives himself, Alec Baldwin, stars alongside with Sir Fava Beans, Anthony Hopkins in The Edge — in this, another David Mamet-penned joint (as talky, though not as memorable as Glengarry Glen Ross). Hopkins plays a polymath billionaire, an almost Victorian era-styled adventurer named Charles, who is accompanying hisContinue reading “The Edge”
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