Toward the end of the new film version of ”Sleuth,” a cell phone suddenly rings. The sound is as jarring as gunfire, and it deepens the tension in a scene between Milo (Jude Law), an out-of-work-actor ...

Remaking “Sleuth” seems unnecessary, really. Anthony Shaffer’s endlessly circulated stage thriller was filmed in 1972 by Joseph L. Mankiewicz in a prestige project featuring Laurence Olivier as the ...

There are at least five reasons the new version of the lighthearted 1972 mystery thriller-cum-relationship drama, “Sleuth,” is something different and potentially special in the way of remakes. It ...

You certainly can’t blame them for trying. A remake of 1972’s entertaining “Sleuth,” with the screen’s two Alfies — Michael Caine and Jude Law — going head-to-head, with Law in the role once played by ...

You could think of “Sleuth” as an erudite episode of “The Itchy and Scratchy Show”: Michael Caine and Jude Law fight, and fight, and fight and fight and fight, only they have Harold Pinter’s ...

Opening up this weekend is the remake of “Sleuth,” and it’s been written by Harold Pinter and directed by Kenneth Branagh.And while it’s a remake and the plot is quite well known, Sony has asked for ...

In “Sleuth,” Alfie meets Alfie. A cunning, theatrical whirligig, “Sleuth” may be one of those creations that can breathe only on a stage. On a big screen, it flops around and suffocates. A second ...

Castle Rock has acquired rights to turn the Anthony Shaffer play “Sleuth” into a screen vehicle for Jude Law. Playwright Harold Pinter has been set to adapt the play for the screen. Law will produce ...

On consecutive weeks back in December 1972, the Palomar production company and 20th Century-Fox teamed to release two films: Sleuth and The Heartbreak Kid. Now, on consecutive weekends in October 2007 ...

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