Action
Rod Lott
In 10th-grade English, after we'd read “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” Mrs. Anderson showed us John Boorman's 1981 epic, "Excalibur," or at least the parts she could show, given its deserved R rating.

Thriller
Rod Lott
With A Lonely Place to Die — which is not to be confused with A Horrible Way to Die, which I did for the better part of last year because those titles are just too damn similar — we have an excellent example of why I neither climb mountains nor go hiking.