Topic: Gregory Hoblit

Film picks

Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster, 2006) 8.05pm, Sky Movies IndieWill Ferrell is taxman Harold Crick who begins to hear a voice in his head: A witty, funny postmodern comedy in the style of Being John Malkovich, with cracking performances from Dustin ...
Computers, cell phones, e-mail-how many thrillers have been bogged down by scenes of characters sitting in front of monitors, tapping into e-mail accounts, breaking codes, and altering programs? The site becomes an Internet sensation, but the FBI team proves incapable of tracing ...
Untraceable (1 1/2 stars)GregoryHoblit. Rated R.DianeLane, BillyBurke, ColinHanks. Directed by Following pretty much every clich known to the serial-killer genre, Hoblit has made his share of passable-to-more-than-passable thrillers, here he and his three screenwriters generate essentially no suspense, showing ...

Plotline ripe for the cyber age

Gregory Hoblit's thriller has a terrifying plotline ripe for the cyber age. He will murder them by fiendishly nasty means and they will die quicker the more people watch.. The cyber-psycho has considerable success even when Diane Lane's FBI detective ...
Computers, cell phones, e-mail-how many thrillers have been bogged down by scenes of characters sitting in front of monitors, tapping into e-mail accounts, breaking codes, and altering programs? The site becomes an Internet sensation, but the FBI team proves incapable of tracing ...

A+E: Screen: Short Takes: Now Playing: Fracture

Fracture (2 1/2 stars) Gregory Hoblit . 112 minutes. Rated R. Anthony Hopkins , Ryan Gosling , Rosamund Pike . Directed by Ted Crawford ( Hopkins ), villain extraordinaire of the psychological thriller Gosling ) after being arrested for the attempted murder of his wife. The film hums ...

Review: Fracture

It's nice to see Anthony Hopkins in Hannibal Lecter mode again. He's the best thing in Gregory Hoblit's murder drama, as he watches his beloved wife (Embeth Davidtz) cavorting with a policeman (Rob, played by Billy Burke), shoots her ...

Trial with errors

It's nice to see Anthony Hopkins in Hannibal Lecter mode again. He's the best thing in Gregory Hoblit's murder drama, as he watches his beloved wife (Embeth Davidtz) cavorting with a policeman (Rob, played by Billy Burke), shoots her ...