In "The Ghost Writer," Roman Polanski most clearly means to evoke Hitchcock. He builds his scenes through ominous music, the rhythms of his editing and a central figure, an innocent, who struggles ...

The Ghost Writer: movie review ( PG-13 ) ( Monitor Movie Guide ) Roman Polanski’s thriller ‘The Ghost Writer’ carries his trademark cruel humor and pervasive dread.

As Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor describe it, there was no need for the cast of Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” to have long, philosophical discussions about the movie’s creepy real ...

The Story: A ghost writer is hired to polish the memoirs of a former British prime minister after the mysterious death of the original writer. The Lowdown: A complete return to form for Roman ...

Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" is a taut thriller that addresses one of the central concerns of any democracy, the accountability of its leaders, dangling as its central political piñata a ...

Welcome to "Saturday Night at the Movies". I'm your host, Glenn Holland. Tonight's film is the 2010 political thriller, "The Ghost Writer", directed by Roman Polanski.

PG, for fantasy action/violence. 108 minutes. What sounded like an awesome marriage -- Tim Burton meets Lewis Carroll in 3-D -- is more of a bad first date. A rather flat version of "Alice," with ...

In the craptacular month of February, when Hollywood typically drowns us in all-star drool like Valentine's Day, it's indecent luck having two films in play directed by indisputable masters.

COLOGNE, Germany – The European Film Academy loves Roman Polanski.The director’s political thriller The Ghost Writer has been nominated for seven European Film Awards, including best film ...