Tag: Thriller
Rust Creek Provides Thrills That Are Serviceable but Familiar
Rust Creek finds us in the company of Sawyer (Hermione Corfield), a college senior from Kentucky headed to Washington, D.C. during the week of Thanksgiving for a job interview. Seeking a route around highway traffic, Sawyer follows her…
Read More »Glass and the Power of Belief
Glass is the third film in a trilogy of films written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan that includes 2000’s Unbreakable and 2017’s Split. The third installment find us thrust into Raven Hill Psychiatric Hospital where David Dunn (Bruce…
Read More »Bad Times at the El Royale’s Momentary Thrills Can’t Save It
Bad Times at the El Royale takes place in a formerly luxurious motel that is now down on its luck run-down hotel that sits on the border between California and Nevada. One fateful night, seven strangers, Father Flynn…
Read More »Innovative, Thrilling, and Diverse, Searching is This Year’s Breath of Fresh Air at the Movies
In Searching, David Kim (John Cho) is left to pick up the pieces of his and his daughter Margot’s (Michelle La) lives following the death of his wife Pamela (Sara Sohn) from cancer. After going to a classmate’s home to…
Read More »You Were Never Really Here Explores Trauma and the Painful Ties It Binds
You Were Never Really Here follows Joe (Joaquin Phoenix), a veteran turned contract investigator/killer with a specialty in the tracking of missing girls. After taking a job involving Nina (Ekaterina Samsonov), the troublesome daughter of a New York…
Read More »Personal Shopper Burns Slowly but Brightly
Soon after the death of her twin brother Lewis, personal shopper Maureen Cartwright (Kristen Stewart) travels to Paris and attempts to user her ability as a spiritual medium to communicate with him, a power that he also possessed….
Read More »Hounds of Love Shines While Tackling Tough Subject Matter
Hounds of Love takes place in 1987, following serial killer couple John and Evelyn White (Stephen Curry and Emma Booth) in Perth, Australia. While searching for their next victim, they happen upon Vicki Maloney (Ashleigh Cummings), a high…
Read More »The Invitation: A Thrilling Intersection of Grief and Paranoia
The Invitation follows Will (Logan Marshall-Green) and a group of friends that haven’t seen each other since tragedy Will and his ex-wife Eden (Tammy Blanchard) two years prior. Eden invites her ex and their old friends to a…
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Velvet Buzzsaw is a Horror-Tinged Critique of the Intersection of Art and Commerce
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** “So much easier to talk about money than art.” Velvet Buzzsaw transports us to the swanky art scene of Los Angeles following renowned art critic Morf Vandewalt (Jake Gyllenhall), gallery owner Rhodora Haze (Rene…
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