It’s been Scare Week at The Movie Gourmet, but here are this week’s recommended current films:
- The Martian – an entertaining Must See space adventure – even for folks who usually don’t enjoy science fiction;
- Bridge of Spies – Steven Spielberg’s Cold War espionage thriller with Tom Hanks, featuring a fantastic performance by Mark Rylance.
- Sicario – a dark and paranoid crime thriller about the drug wars.
- Prophet’s Prey – a Showtime documentary about child sexual abuse in a polygamous religious cult.
On Halloween, Turner Classic Movies is bringing us a campy Vincent Price horror classic from 1959, The Tingler. It has a scary premise – a parasite embedding itself in people’s spine and feeding on them – unaware until they feel a tingle AND THEN IT MAY BE TOO LATE!
You really haven’t sampled film noir if you haven’t seen Out of the Past (1947), and it’s coming up on Turner Classic Movies on November 5. Perhaps the model of a film noir hero, Robert Mitchum plays a guy who is cynical, strong, smart and resourceful – but still a sap for the femme fatale…played by the irresistible Jane Greer. Director Jacques Tourneur told Greer, ” First half of the movie – Good Girl; second half – Bad Girl.”
