It seems like an easy target: the one-time Queen Bee of the Upper East Side, stuffed into an orange bikini and stranded on a rock in the middle of the ocean as a 20-foot great white shark stalks her.

While the shark is certainly a terrifying menace in The Shallows, its home environment of the sea is the very thing that allows it to be scary in the first place. While Lively’s Nancy is stranded with ...

It was a Friday night and my husband and I finally got our cable set up after a recent move. As I excitedly flipped through the options of “on demand” films, I came across the listing for “The ...