The film is set in East Germany during the ominous Orwellian year 1984, when as many as one in 50 East Germans was some kind of informant for the country’s state security (Stasi) organization. Stasi’s ...

Menace is sometimes much easier to communicate in film or television than on stage. Noises and music amplify the terror. Theatre Alibi’s production of The Ministry ...

Ray Milland may be certifiably paranoid but the Nazis really are out to get him in Fritz Lang‘s 1944 noir classic Ministry of Fear, screening Sunday 1/3 at Delilah’s. The Reader is free. Producing it ...

Suffused with dread and paranoia, this Fritz Lang adaptation of a novel by Graham Greene is a plunge into the eerie shadows of a world turned upside down by war.

PARAMOUNT PICTURES will make a movie of this thriller, and it will have superior dialogue. Unfortunately the first-rate writing—the capsule characterization, acute observation, and good description — ...