Panic Room (2002)

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Panic Room Feels Like a B-Movie ...
by pippin06 in Reel Thoughts

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"The next entry on the ole' Netflix queue is my second of four thrillers and the last in the couplet of David Fincher movies topping the list. I had never seen Panic Room, even despite cable rotation, but was always interested because of a) my fleeting interest in David Fincher and b) the fact that it had stars like Jodie Foster and Forest Whitaker in it. I was hoping that these sorts of ingredients put together could make for something that wasn't all bad, even if the premise centers on something that would certainly give me claustrophobia should I be unlucky enough to experience it. I was right, you know. It wasn't all bad. Foster plays Meg Altman, a woman going through a tough divorce and a single mother of a young, diabetic daughter named Sarah (Kristen Stewart). While striking out on their own, Meg purchases a Manhattan brownstone previously owned by an eccentric millionnaire that includes features like an elevator and a small "panic room," a people-sized vault used to hid ... " [More]

10 Awesome Homages to North by ...
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"In the new movie Eagle Eye, three characters participate in a re-creation of the famous crop duster sequence from Hitchcock’s North by Northwest. Only the plane from NbN has been replaced with an electrical tower and power lines, and it takes Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan and Anthony Azizi to perform Cary Gran’t part (Azizi also substitutes for the pilot and the farmer, I guess). Such an homage is not surprising coming from director D.J. Caruso, whose last picture, Disturbia, is currently involved in a lawsuit for being an uncredited remake of Hitch’s Rear Window. This time, fortunately, Caruso borrows enough from other films, including Hitch’s second version of The Man Who Knew Too Much[More]

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