In George A. Romero's deeply silly 1993 Stephen King adaptation The Dark Half, Timothy Hutton stars as Thad Beaumont, a writer whose highbrow pretensions don't pay the bills. When Thad needs to ...

In George A. Romero's deeply silly 1993 Stephen King adaptation The Dark Half, Timothy Hutton stars as Thad Beaumont, a writer whose highbrow pretensions don't pay the bills. When Thad needs to ...

Based on a novel in a series by Richard Stark, the alter ego of the late, great Donald E. Westlake, the film is basically a heist-and-payback movie.

Richard Stark's Parker is the kind of anti-hero that America isn't meant to create anymore, let alone enjoy. A cold hearted killer with the will to do the kind of things that most flinch at.

Stark contrasts "Parker" marks the first time onscreen that Donald Westlake's iconic anti-hero thief Richard Parker is actually called by the name used in the author's 24 pseudonymous Richard ...

That's the launching pad for Hackford's film, based on the Donald Westlake novel "Flashfire" -- one of the 24 novels in the "Parker" series that Westlake wrote under the pseudonym Richard Stark ...