Sentences with phrase «as a thriller writer»

Whether you agree with the views expressed in this novel or not, my primary obligation as a thriller writer is to give you an exciting rollercoaster ride.
The world of Eden is not always fully developed — readers will likely walk away with a few questions — but Charbonneau's skill as a thriller writer will hook readers as the tension between the siblings grows and the Trial of Succession rushes towards an explosive end.
Needless to say that now, after I experienced Hunter: A Thriller and I saw what Robert did as a journalist and still does as a thriller writer, I'm honored that he approached me asking for a honest review.
The Vigilante Author: As a thriller writer, I second those priorities.
A little background: Keith wrote this modern - day pirate novel before becoming well - known as a thriller writer, and before the explosion in online marketing opportunities.

Not exact matches

With interesting project choices (along with directing Whiplash and La La Land, he also wrote thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane) and his skill as a writer and director, Chazelle is showing why he may be one of Hollywood's next great filmmakers.
This thriller from director Matt Shakman and writer Roberto Patino follows Liam Hemsworth's Dwayne McLaren as he tries to use a bad situation to get rich quick and get out of Cut Bank, Montana with his girlfriend Cassandra (Teresa Palmer).
You Were Never Really Here This grim, artful New York crime thriller about a tormented thug - for - hire (a rivetingly contained Joaquin Phoenix) confirms writer - director Lynne Ramsay («We Need to Talk About Kevin») as one of the most exciting and exacting film stylists of her generation.
Described as a contemporary thriller, «The Vatican» was hotly tipped during Showtime's development season in 2013: not only was Scott producing and helming the pilot, but it was based on an idea by Sony chief Amy Pascal, penned by Oscar - nominated «Quiz Show» and «Donnie Brasco» writer Paul Attanasio (who was intended to be the showrunner) and starred a very hot cast.
Yet the horrific circumstances of his chemical castration and the very real realities of his life as a gay man are sidestepped by the faux thriller set - up of the film, a device that conveniently allows a heterosexual writer like Moore (who's Oscar acceptance speech granted us insight into how his version of Turing lacks any on - screen interiority as a gay man) to touch upon the subject as a clichéd trope.
When the nominations for the César Awards — known in glib terms as the French Oscars — were announced last month, I wrote that I anticipated a tight race between Roman Polanski's widely acclaimed Euro thriller «The Ghost Writer» and Xavier Beauvois's lofty Cannes prizewinner «Of Gods and Men,» with the latter just winning out.
Writer and director Taylor Sheridan (writer of Hell or High Water and Sicario) delivers a tightly wound suspense thriller as intense as it is unpredicWriter and director Taylor Sheridan (writer of Hell or High Water and Sicario) delivers a tightly wound suspense thriller as intense as it is unpredicwriter of Hell or High Water and Sicario) delivers a tightly wound suspense thriller as intense as it is unpredictable.
Joaquin Phoenix received the actor prize for his performance as a schlubby, severely troubled hit man in Scottish writer - director Lynne Ramsay's stylish and violent crime thriller «You Were Never Really Here,» an Amazon Studios production.
Writer and director Alex Garland manages to take a high - concept premise — a reclusive, Steve Jobs - like genius (Oscar Isaac) invites a young employee (Domhnall Gleeson) to test the android he created (Alicia Vikander) to see if she's truly intelligent — and tuns it into a claustrophobic, tense thriller, as the three circle each other through an hour and a half of vicious psychological manipulation and constant shifts in the balance of power.
Filmmaker Ivan Sen is a quadruple threat as writer, director, composer and cinematographer of this wily Australian thriller.
Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor at Cannes for his role as a brutal enforcer out to rescue a teenage girl in this thriller from the writer - director of We Need to Talk About Kevin.
The summer 2018 movie season is set to begin early, as writer - director Vaughn Stein's thriller, «Terminal,» will be distributed in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD this Friday, May 11, by RLJE Films.
From director Clint Eastwood and writer Peter Morgan (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland), a dramatic thriller with Matt Damon starring as a former professional psychic....
I suspect it was somewhere around the time of Infernal Affairs, as Alan Mak and Andrew Lau's crime thriller adopted the speed and rhythm of Johnnie To's Milkyway thrillers, matched it with Lau's bright, digitally slick blues, grays and blacks, and neglected to add To and his vast team of writers» depth of purpose to their ingeniously wicked plot schematics.
But now that you think about, and as people start to see the movie, it will make a lot of sense, in terms of the tone and twists, as well as the thriller aspect,» the writer said, before adding that «we got really excited, because we knew it was the right choice to make.»
Jordan Peele, the mastermind of «Get Out,» a social thriller about American racism, became the first African American to earn producer, director and writer nominations for a single film; the academy nominated a female cinematographer, «Mudbound's» Rachel Morrison, for the first time in its 90 - year history; and Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman recognized as a director, feted for her wry, observational coming - of - age story «Lady Bird.»
Gilroy's career has mostly been as a writer, but the 2014 psychological thriller Nightcrawler was his debut film as a director — and my god, what a gem of a movie!
Writer / producer Luc Besson (who also co-wrote the Liam Neeson action thriller) has essentially been making the same movie for the last 20 years, and although most of his Euro - trash action films haven't been as successful as «Taken,» they're always a lot of fun to watch.
About Bright Set in an alternate present - day, this action - thriller directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad, End of Watch, writer of Training Day) follows two cops from very different backgrounds (Ward, a human played by Will Smith, and Jakoby, an orc played by Joel Edgerton) who embark on a routine patrol night that will ultimately alter the future as their world knows it.
I could also give credit to the writers for naming the main character in this cat - and - mouse thriller «Tom and Jerry,» but really, it only took as much brainstorming to come up with that trivial tidbit than just about anything else in this archaic, brain - dead thriller.
In the grand tradition of «Night of the Living Dead» comes a film, from writer - director Jordan Peele, that functions as both frightening horror thriller and racially conscious satire that confronts the dark underbelly of American racism in its more insidious, less obvious forms.
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Jake Gyllenhaal gives a brilliant, career - best performance as Lou Bloom, a perversely charismatic, wildly ambitious, and completely unscrupulous sociopath with a disturbing work ethic in writer - director Dan Gilroy's riveting edge - of - your - seat thriller, «Nightcrawler.»
WHY: Robert De Niro may be choosing better scripts these days, but he's not immune to appearing in bad movies, as evidenced in this direct - to - video thriller that plays like a mix between «Speed» and «John Q.» Director Scott Mann and writer Stephen Cyrus Sepher have created an incredibly predictable crime flick that uses just about every cliché in the book, from the desperate father trying to save his child, to the villain with a crisis of conscience.
Beyond its description as a «modern - day noir crime thriller» set in LA, there's few details out there, but it should pique the interest of anyone who caught the writer - director's terrific 2014 genre piece.
Derek Luke and Lindsay Sloane have joined the project «Seeking A Friend At The End of the World,» Bryan Singer is producing the unfortunately titled Internet thriller «uwantme2killhim,» «Rabbit Hole» actor Miles Teller will star in «21 And Over,» which will be directed by ««The Hangover» writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, «300» writer Kurt Johnstad has been drafted to rework the script for James Mangold «s «The Gunslinger,» and lastly, «Saw» director Darren Bousman is going to helm what is being described as a «The Shining «- style horror tale called «The Barrens.»
Calvary — a darkly comic thriller that reunites writer - director John Michael McDonagh and actor Brendan Gleeson has been unveiled as the opening gala for the 2014 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
It may have been 1991's The Silence of the Lambs that led to Hannibal Lecter's iconic status as well as his anointment as cinema's all - time greatest villain (at least according to the American Film Institute's 100 Heroes & Villains list back in 2003), but the cannibalistic doctor's first on - screen appearance can actually be found in this compelling thriller which writer - director Michael Mann adapted from Thomas Harris» novel Red Dragon.
Baby Driver Rated R for violence and language throughout Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93 % On DVD and Blu - ray Writer / director Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) gives us a Tarantino-esque thriller about a hot shot driver who is working off a debt with crime boss Kevin Spacey by serving as the best getaway driver in the world of bank robbing.
Green Room by George Wolf The 2013 revenge thriller Blue Ruin heralded writer / director Jeremy Saulnier as a filmmaker bursting with the instincts and craftsmanship necessary to give familiar tropes new... read more →
Soderbergh makes a more than impressive debut, as a writer and as a director, and crafts a one - of - a-kind drama that grips you like no Hollywood thriller could.
Catherine Hardwicke, who directed the first Twilight movie, will direct this adaptation of the first novel in the popular series of young adult novels by James Patterson, the writer of thrillers such as Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider.
Psychological thriller «Split» is, as revealed in its final moments, a spin - off from the writer - director's well - received 2000 superhero drama «Unbreakable.»
Hardly the mere home invasion thriller it's been marketed as, this is an angry film for an angry time, a heavy, at times lumbering, allegorical work about woman and man, nature and God, painstakingly made from a script the writer - director claims he dashed off in five days; its unrefined, somewhat all - purpose symbolism is evidence of an almost demonic process, and its confusions, self - lacerations, and silliness would be less welcome if Aronofsky hadn't in the process mounted the most technically impressive filmmaking of his career.
The Scandinavian writer - director Assur describes Close Far Away as «a dramatic thriller about people's behavior in vulnerable situations.»
John Michael McDonagh (writer of Ned Kelly) makes his feature directorial debut with this crime thriller that apparently has a decent amount of comedy as well.
We're almost as excited by Screen «s news that the busiest writer alive, Jack Thorne (one of our Screenwriters On The Rise picks this year), and director Tom Harper, who were behind the excellent, woefully under - seen «Scouting Book For Boys» a few years back, are getting back together, for a political thriller called «War Book.»
Her finest and most structurally adventurous effort to date, Ramsay's latest film «You Were Never Really Here» is both new territory for the writer / director (it can be loosely seen as a violent, Park Chan - wook-esque action - thriller of sorts with a trauma - ridden, hammer - wielding antihero at the center) as well as her usual psychodrama terrain, filled with scarred human beings.
It's an entertaining psychological thriller, starring his wife Emmanuelle Seigner as a famous author and Eva Green as a ghost writer who wants to take over her persona.
It is indeed something way, way worse as writer - director Brian Taylor lays down just a tiny early clue as to how this dark comedy thriller will end.
A couple of trailers today, starting with Alexandros Avranas» thriller «Dark Crimes» starring Jim Carrey as a cop who finds similarities between an unsolved murder and a crime outlined in a book by famed writer Krystov Kozlow (Martin Csokas)...
In an informal poll of over 100 newspaper, magazine, and online film critics and movie writers, Jordan Peele's horror satire «Get Out» emerged as the clear winner, edging out Michael Showalter's romcom «The Big Sick,» Edgar Wright's car chase thriller «Baby Driver,» and James Mangold's existential superhero flick «Logan» as the consensus choice as the favorite film of 2017 so far.
The independent production is skillfully cobbled together on a microbudget (as horror films often are) by writer / director team Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead — the minds behind similarly Lovecraftian indie thrillers Resolution and Spring.
Writer and director Walter Hill's latest violent noir thriller The Assignment fits comfortably alongside Johnny Handsome and Extreme Prejudice as far the veteran filmmaker's extensive filmography is concerned.
In the sci - fi thriller «Midnight Special,» writer / director Jeff Nichols proves again that he is one of the most compelling storytellers of our time, as a father (Michael Shannon), goes on the run to protect his young son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), and uncover the truth behind the boy's special powers.
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