Sentences with phrase «war thriller about»

Not exact matches

He decided to write a novel about them, as well, and in 2000, Bantam published Deep Sound Channel, a thriller about a war fought in the South Atlantic in 2011.

Playing like a prequel to All the President's Men (the final coda nods towards the opening of Alan J Pakula's masterpiece), Steven Spielberg's Vietnam - era thriller recalls the 1971 revelations of the Pentagon Papers — a devastating internal report that detailed how «the White House has been lying about the war».

Naranjo numbs sensation to make his points about the drug war's damage to Mexico, turning Miss Bala into a thriller from the dissociative first person perspective.

In Mr. Spielberg's hands, that decision becomes a ticktock thriller about the freedom of the press, the White House's war on that constitutional right and the middle - aged woman who defended freedom in a fabulous gold caftan.

A vengeful game of one - upmanship turns deadly in this urban thriller about a hotshot young attorney (Ben Affleck) and a recovering alcoholic (Samuel L. Jackson) whose minor fender - bender devastates both of their lives and quickly leads to an escalating war of dirty tricks and manipulation.

This year's biggest downer — which is not to take away from the qualities of the film — «Amour» represents a change for director Michael Haneke, whose «Funny Games» is a remarkable thriller about the takeover of a household by two psychopathic youths and whose «The White Ribbon» looks at mysterious goings - on in a feudal village in Germany prior to World War I.

But it's actually a psychological thriller about how soldiers and scientists fight wars - against the enemy, and each other.

War (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity and graphic violence) Revenge thriller about an FBI Agent (Jason Statham) intent on tracking down the assassin (Jet Li) who murdered his partner (Terry Chen).

Despite no previous acting experience, Katie Jarvis is the heart and troubled soul of Fish Tank, the gripping coming - of - age drama from Andrea Arnold and the most exciting new release in a week also highlighted by the arrival of Storm, Hans - Christian Schmid's thriller about crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian war of the early 1990s, and the on - screen return of Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness.

But it also plays upon those thriller conventions to force the audience to think about violence and revenge and terrorism and war.

However, «The Monuments Men,» also directed by Clooney, looks tonally very different from those relatively serious - minded political thrillers, with the rather fine trailer showcasing an unusually gentle, humorous tone for a film about World War II.

After teasing a number of different ambitious projects in 2017 — including an adaptation of Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next film.

Double Take, Johan Grimonprez's quasi-experimental meditation on (among other things) the Cold War tension of the late fifties, the space race and the culture of commercial television, turns Hitchcock into the main character of an abstract thriller about the director meeting his own double.

The movie is a post-apocalyptic thriller about a small - town girl (Robbie) who lives alone on a farm in the only valley with breathable air in the wake of nuclear war.

Those viewers looking for a gripping thriller or a great war flick should probably look elsewhere, as this Robert Redford directed piece is only about trying to provoke thought.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (R for violence, profanity, sexuality and nudity) Screen adaptation of John le Carre's classic, espionage thriller, set at the height of the Cold War, about a disgraced, former head of British intelligence (Gary Oldman) who comes out of retirement to catch the Soviet mole who has infiltrated the agency's highest echelons.

«It's been a long time (since) you could find a new story about World War II,» Clooney said, perhaps revealing he has yet to watch John Frankheimer «s breathless thriller «The Train,» which covers similar territory and is also based on a true story.

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Actor Domhnall Gleeson of «Harry Potter» and «Unbroken» is back on HuffPost Live to talk about starring in the sci - fi thriller «Ex Machina» and to discuss the highly - anticipated film «Star Wars: The Force Awakens.»

Then, next year brings Chris Evans» Cap back for a story ripped from Ed Brubaker's comic book run about Bucky (Sebastian Stan) recovered, resurrected, brainwashed and augmented into lethal killer Winter Soldier for what is promised as a blend of spy thriller and World War II hero Steve Rogers continuing to find his place in the modern world.

The trailer, and the final poster (also below), feature quotes from Martin Scorsese praising the «audacious» concept of this thriller about Civil War confederates who end up trapped in a field filled with mushrooms.

This is a thriller about the drug war on the U.S. - Mexican border.

«Star Wars» actor Adam Driver is attached to star in Spike Lee's «Black Klansman,» a crime thriller about the KKK.

The studio won a heated bidding war with several other studios for this thriller about an American family who are in the middle of an Asian coup.

Burns initially described the picture as provocative thriller about the pharmaceutical industry and «the war on sadness.»

One of the standout movies from 2017 is Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan's intense and riveting WWII thriller about the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940 at the beginning of World War II.

Beirut (R for profanity, violence and a nude image) Espionage thriller, set in the Eighties during Lebanon's civil war, about a retired U.S. diplomat (Jon Hamm) coaxed back into service by a CIA agent (Rosamund Pike) to negotiate the release of a kidnapped colleague (Mark Pelligrino).

Out: Now screening (M, 134 minutes) Director: Gareth Edwards Cast: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn Outline: Set in the day and hours before 1977's original Star Wars, the first side story from the now Disney - owned galaxy far, far away is a dry heister thriller that becomes a war movie about the necessity of sacrifice, with the rebels led by the wayward Jyn Erso (Jones) and the wary Cassian Andor (Luna).

Collider's own Christina Radish recently spoke with screenwriter Steven Knight in anticipation of the upcoming World War II thriller Allied, and Knight talked briefly about his involvement in scripting The Girl in the Spider's Web.

The slate of 12 international titles vying for a $ 25,000 prize include «High - Rise,» a British adaptation of J.G. Ballard's dystopian novel, and «Land of Mine,» a Danish - German post-World War II thriller about a team of schoolboy POWs who are tasked with the removal of still - active buried land mines.

Nicolas Cage continues his portfolio - fattening run of action flicks with «Season of the Witch,» a medieval - set adventure thriller about a pair of returning Crusaders who stagger back from the war to discover their homeland ravaged by the plague — and are charged by their town elders with transporting a suspected witch to a faraway land.

Drug War (Unrated) Explosive crime thriller, set in Tianjin, China, about a convicted meth dealer (Louis Koo) who fingers members of his former drug cartel in order to avoid the death penalty.

The Hollywood Reporter has word that the legendary filmmakers will team for an untitled thriller set during the Cold War, about the true story of attorney John Donovan's negotiations with KGB agents over the release of a fallen spy plane pilot.

The Debt (R for violence and profanity) International espionage thriller, set in 1997, about three former Mossad Agents (Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson and Ciaran Hinds) who come out of retirement to track down a Nazi war criminal (Jesper Christensen) back on the loose after already being apprehended by them 35 years earlier.

The film, which marks Garland's directorial debut, is described as an intense psychological thriller in which Caleb (About Time «s Domhnall Gleeson, soon to be seen in Star Wars Episode VII), a 24 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan (Inside Llewyn Davis star Oscar Isaac).

I hate to keep repeating myself, but World War Z is an intense, nail biting, edge of your seat thriller filled with intelligent horror and real emotion than I can't say enough great things about.

It allows Haggis to tell a bruising yarn about the trauma caused by war while serving up a tautly paced, emotional thriller.

The Beguiled Focus Features — limited 6/23, wider 6/30 Dir: Sofia Coppola Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Colin Farrell What It's About: Based on the novel by Thomas Cullinan and previously made into a film by Clint Eastwood, Oscar - winner Sofia Coppola adapts this post-Civil War western / thriller about a house of sheltered women (led by Oscar winner Nicole KidmaAbout: Based on the novel by Thomas Cullinan and previously made into a film by Clint Eastwood, Oscar - winner Sofia Coppola adapts this post-Civil War western / thriller about a house of sheltered women (led by Oscar winner Nicole Kidmaabout a house of sheltered women (led by Oscar winner Nicole Kidman)...

Iles wrote his first novel in 1993, a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess, which became the first of twelve New York Times bestsellers.

Now Amazon is describing his newest novel, Reamde, as «a high - stakes espionage thriller about a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game!»