Tag: Thriller
Love Lies Bleeding: Performances From Its Stars Can’t Overcome The Film’s Choices
Rose Glass has written and directed a few highly touted indie films, the most recent being 2019’s Saint Maud, and now she returns to multiplexes with a new Romantic thriller that involves drama, love, and violence. Love Lies…
Read More »Argylle’s Twists and Turns Elevate It From Descending Into Total Cliche
Director Matthew Vaughn has returned with his latest action packed film. Argylle introduces us to author Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard) who writes the best-selling spy novel series of the same name about a secret agent who’s on a mission…
Read More »Eileen’s Bland Story Fails to Take Advantage of Its Talented Cast (Sundance Film Festival)
A new film based on a novel of the same name brings together a skilled cast of actors. Eileen brings us into the mundane, and often painful, life of a shy young woman of the same name, played…
Read More »Saltburn Tackles Class Stratification Using A Familiar Gothic Story (Middleburg Film Festival)
Emerald Fennell burst onto the scene of talented writer/directors with 2020’s Promising Young Woman and three years later, she makes her anticipated return to multiplexes. Saltburn begins on the campus of Oxford University with freshman student Oliver Quick…
Read More »Cat Person Navigates the Modern Dating Scene (Sundance Film Festival)
As social media becomes more and more ubiquitous in our lives, Hollywood has sought to replicate the fast burning popularity of viral content in its film productions, hoping that lightning strikes twice. Cat Person closely follows the 2017…
Read More »Fair Play is an Explosively Thrilling Portrayal of the Deterioration of a Relationship (Sundance Film Festival)
Career or love. Increasingly, this is a question that faces many young professional women as they navigate modern American culture and find themselves feeling as if they have to choose one or the other. Trying to balance “having…
Read More »Oppenheimer Explores Guilt, Crisis of Conscience in Fusion of Biopic and Tense Procedural Drama
A three-hour biographical drama shot partially in black-and-white does not usually sound like a recipe for a mid-summer theatrical release, but the formula for blockbuster success changes when director Christopher Nolan is involved. His latest film seeks to…
Read More »Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning – High Octane Action + a Topical Villain = Summer Blockbuster Done Right
After the unexpected box office shattering performance of Top Gun: Maverick last summer, Tom Cruise has been cemented in the minds of many as the king of the box office and savior of the theatrical experience. Halfway through…
Read More »Knock at the Cabin is an Engrossing Thriller That Asks Some Existential Questions
Director M. Night Shyamalan returns to the big screen with his latest film Knock at the Cabin. While couple Andrew (Ben Aldridge) and Eric (Jonathan Groff) are vacationing at a remote cabin in the woods with their young…
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The Killer is as Cool and Stylish as its Protagonist
Director David Fincher makes his return to the movies with a new action thriller tale of an assassin laser focused on revenge. The Killer stars Michael Fassbender as a nameless assassin, hereby referred to as just The Killer,…
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