In the 5 years since Daniel Pearl’s death, nearly 230 journalists have been killed in the line of duty. On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl’s world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia Bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi…
Category: Political Thrillers
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
In 2002’s The Bourne Identity, he tried to discover who he was. In 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy, he exacted revenge for what was done to him. Now, he is coming home and has only these words for his pursuers: “I remember everything.” Matt Damon returns as trained assassin Jason Bourne for the latest showdown in…
The Kingdom (2007)
Tagline: Under fire. Under pressure. Out of time. Director Peter Berg, who blisteringly reinterpreted the high-school sports drama with the celebrated “Friday Night Lights,” producer Michael Mann, who has defined the high-tension crime genre for more than a decade, (“Heat,” “Collateral,” “Miami Vice”) and producer Scott Stuber (“You, Me and Dupree,” “The Break-Up”) join Oscar…
Lions for Lambs (2007)
Tagline: If you don’t stand for something, you might fall for anything. Lions for Lambs consists of three interconnected storylines: Tom Cruise as a congressman who interacts with a journalist (Meryl Streep); Robert Redford as an idealistic professor who attempts to inspire a privileged student in his class; and a third storyline about a pair…
The Lives of Others (2007)
Tagline: Nothing is private. Nothing is sacred. East Berlin, November 1984. Five years before its downfall, the former East-German government ensured its claim to power with a ruthless system of control and surveillance. Party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg Dreyman and…
Rendition (2007)
Tagline: What if someone you love… just dissapeared? Isabella El-Ibrahimi (Reese Witherspoon), the wife of an Egyptian engineer, tries desperately to track down her husband after he disappears on an international flight. Meanwhile, a CIA analyst’s (Jake Gyllenhaal) world spins out of control as he witnesses the engineer’s unorthodox interrogation at the hands of secret…