Nov 20th, 2008 · The teen vampire movie "Twilight" opens in theaters on Friday. The movie follows the best-selling series of romance-thriller novels, set in the small and rainy hamlet of Forks on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Despite its remoteness, the town has become a pilgrimage destination for readers from around the world.
Nov 11th, 2008 · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an unlikely best-seller — it's the first book in a trilogy of thrillers written by Stieg Larsson, a previously unknown Swedish journalist who died of a heart attack in 2004.
Nov 6th, 2008 · The master of the "techno thriller," Michael Crichton, has died at the age of 66. He was battling cancer. Crichton was best known for scary stories of science gone wrong in popular books like The Andromeda Strain and "Jurassic Park.
Oct 16th, 2008 · Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis star in a cops-and-corruption thriller with supernatural overtones; adapted from the hit video game, John Moore's movie could use more nuance, but looks like a crowd-pleaser.
Oct 14th, 2008 · Brad Meltzer's latest thriller, The Book of Lies, melds together two well-known tales of familial tragedy and redemption. Cain and Abel, meet Superman.
Oct 10th, 2008 · David Edelstein reviews Body Of Lies, the new spy thriller directed by Ridley Scott and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. Set in Iraq and Syria, the film charts a young CIA operative's growing disillusionment with his superiors in Washington.
Oct 9th, 2008 · Leonardo DiCaprio, as a CIA field agent, clashes with his spymaster, Russell Crowe, over methods and morals. Ridley Scott's direction is crisp, but this thriller is all surface, no intel.
Oct 7th, 2008 · David Cornwell, who goes by the pen name John Le Carré, is back with his latest spy novel A Most Wanted Man. In the thriller, Le Carré uses his experience as a British intelligence officer to write about his view on the war on terror.