P4M MOVIE REVIEW: Arlington Road

We checked out an advance screening of a excitingly disturbing thriller called Arlington Road, coming in March, the story of a nice professor (Jeff Bridges) living in suburban Washington D.C., whose new, squeaky-nice, all-American neighbors (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack) may or may not be militia-type, anti-U.S. government terrorists. Tautly directed by Mark Pellington (Going All The Way), the film builds on some of our most cherished strains of national anxiety (and shows at least one VIB-- Very Important Building-- being blown up, but the real shudder-inducer is the dynamite score by Angelo Badalamenti (Blue Velvet) and soundscapers extraordinaire, Tomandandy: pure sonic paranoia.