Tag: Thriller
The Long Walk Highlights Modern Day Cultural Issues
One of Stephen King’s earliest works finally makes it to the big screen in the latest film adaptation of the legendary scribe. In The Long Walk, a group of young male teens who inhabit a dystopian, post-war America…
Read More »Caught Stealing is a Throwback, Simple Crime Thriller That Mostly Entertains
Fresh off directing Brendan Fraser’s Oscar winning comeback role in 2022’s The Whale, director Darren Aronofsky returns to theaters with a throwback crime thriller. In Caught Stealing, Hank (Austin Butler) is a baseball obsessed California boy now working…
Read More »Drop is an Inspired Hitchcockian Thriller
A new mystery thriller hit theaters as Drop introduces us to Violet (Meghann Fahy), a widowed mother who after a tragic encounter with her abusive husband is finally embarking back out on the dating scene. She agrees to…
Read More »Vampires and Spirits: Sinners Keeps You Entertained From Dusk Till Dawn
Director Ryan Coogler has been on a hot streak in movie theaters essentially from his very first feature, 2013’s Fruitvale Station, through his last film Black Panther Wakanda Forever, the followup to his monumental hit Black Panther in…
Read More »Black Bag is Sleek and Streamlined Mystery Goodness
The Thin Man was a highly successful comedic mystery series that spanned movies, radio, television and the theater from the 1930s through the 1990s. The characters Nick and Nora Charles, first portrayed by legendary actors William Powell and…
Read More »Nicole Kidman Shines in Babygirl’s Tale of Power and Vulnerability
The erotic thriller has been a critically endangered species in modern cinema, with the once prolific genre almost completely disappearing from movie theaters. Writer/director Halina Reijn is looking to change this with her latest effort. Babygirl introduces us…
Read More »The Order is Topical but a Bit By The Numbers (Middleburg Film Festival)
Real life events are used to power a new crime thriller hitting cineplexes. Based on the 1989 book entitled The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, The Order places us alongside FBI agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) who after…
Read More »Conclave Is an Engrossing Political Thriller That Also Deftly Explores Religion (Middleburg Film Festival)
Coming off of the success of 2022’s All Quiet on the Western Front, director Edward Berger returns to cinema with the adaptation of a 2016 novel. Conclave finds us alongside Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) following the sudden…
Read More »Strange Darling Subverts Expectations in Entertaining, Enlightening Fashion
Every year, an indie darling emerges in the film scene to near universal acclaim and hype among cinephiles. For 2024, an indie horror thriller seems to have taken the title. Strange Darling is set in the Pacific Northwest…
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A House of Dynamite is Horrifyingly Thrilling and Tense
Kathryn Bigelow has been away from movie theaters since 2017’s criminally underrated Detroit, but the acclaimed, Oscar winning director has finally returned to the big screen with a deliciously thrilling film about a disastrous event with A House…
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