The China Syndrome (1979)

A morning news presenter of puff pieces (Jane Fonda) with aspirations for harder-hitting investigative stuff hits the jackpot when an incident occurs at the nuclear power plant that she and her cameraman (Michael Douglas) happen to be visiting, but how critical was the event, how can they get their story to air on a corrupt news network, and how can the slow-burn thrills end without the movie simply snapping suddenly to black, are the questions that ratchet up the tension to meltdown-levels in this solid thriller.

★★★☆☆

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How to Murder Your Wife (1965)

**SPOILER ALERT**

This dated and not very funny comedy with alot of unpleasant things to say about women is about a cartoonist who conceives an elaborate (and absurd) plot to murder his comic-strip wife only to have the real one disappear which, in the last twenty minutes of a very uneven movie, creates difficulty for the cartoonist but only for one scene - an unamusing (and absurd) court case exonerates him of any wrongdoing despite his criminally gross sexism.

★☆☆☆☆

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