Sentences with phrase «action thrillers»

The homoerotic themes that have been associated with John Woo's best - known Hong Kong action thrillers are basically carryovers from the work of the late French cult director Jean - Pierre Melville, to whom Woo's 1989 The Killer is explicitly dedicated.

If you didn't see that coming, then you haven't seen very many action thrillers.

Charley Varrick (1973)-- 9:00 PM, 35 mm «characteristically clean, fascinatingly and unfussily detailed, beautifully paced — a model of movie craftsmanship and a pointed affront to those slovenly wrecking derbies and indiscriminate bloodbaths that have been passing for contemporary action thrillers the last year or so.

I have so many ideas in my head for fast - paced action thrillers.

Before he became «Fargo's» Mike Milligan, Bokeem Woodbine starred in everything from action thrillers to biopics.

From sci - fi action thrillers, action movie continuations, and Brazilian crime dramas, Braga has been bringing her own delightful mix of badassery and humanity to the big and small screens.

If you're desperately waiting for Liam Neeson to move away from generic action thrillers, 2014 looks like it could be off to a promising...

«Everest» is just as competently made as the director's two action thrillers, and yet strangely, it's also as emotionally distant and perfunctory.

The early 1970s to the late 1980s was a unique moment in Australian cinema history; a time when censorship was reigned in and home - grown production flourished, resulting in a flurry of exploitation films — sex comedies, horror movies and action thrillers — that pushed buttons and boundaries, trampled over taste and decency, but also offered artistry within their escapism, giving audiences sights and sounds unlike anything they had seen in Australia before.

The big gala presentations range from upcoming comic book geekery with Green Lantern to Nicholas Winding Refn's thriller Drive (fresh off rave reviews from Cannes) to the premiere of Richard Linklater's latest Bernie, with stops along the way for indie dramas (A Better Life), British genre films (Attack the Block), action thrillers (The Devil's Double), and Guillermo Del Toro - produced scary fun (Don't Be Afraid of the Dark).

Why are so many action thrillers always being lifted from overseas?

The Commuter marks the fourth collab between Neeson and Collet - Serra, who previously teamed for the action thrillers Unknown (2011), Non-Stop (2014), and Run All Night (2015), but it may be the last team up we see from them for a while.

Although it certainly has its flaws, Taken is a cut above many recently released action thrillers and should provide enough entertainment to be worth the ticket price

The tale is pure pulp, a catalogue of seventies martial arts revenge dramas and American B - movie action thrillers, and the style is pure Tarantino: snappy titles, a timeline that leaps back and forth through the story, a mad mix of styles and musical references, and an attitude of loving affection for his inspirations.

It's no exaggeration to say that the Bourne trilogy redefined modern action thrillers.

The score is clearly not as «arty» as those for which he has become famous, but having said that, there can't have been many scores for action thrillers in recent years featuring extensive and detailed solo passages for recorder.

Thomas Newman is one of the leading film composers of his generation, but it was hard to imagine how Skyfall would turn out — action thrillers are not things that figure remotely prominently in his filmography.

Take a look at the intriguing mix of indie comedies, documentaries, and action thrillers now available on demand!

Take a look at the intriguing mix of indie dramas, horror films, and action thrillers now available on demand!

It's almost a guarantee that January, typically a barren month for movie releases, will be littered with sub-par action thrillers starring angry men; take a chance on In the Fade instead.

Spy action thrillers should be a dime a dozen instead of $ 21 / # 18 a pop in IMAX, but ubiquitous they certainly are.

Part of the film's appeal is that it's written and directed by Luc Besson, he of the smarmy eurotrash action thrillers, and so he's willing to drag the film into a murky, R - rated morality that an American blockbuster simply wouldn't be willing to go.

Action thrillers assail but rarely test us; this is the tautest, most provoking, and altogether most draining example ever made.

I enjoy many hobbies from boardway shows, chatting online programs, writing, reading horror, scinec fiction, action thrillers, love oldie but goodie music, weaghting lifting and daily love to walk 4 miles to...

After two romance flops in 2012, the Gerard Butler White House action thriller solidifies the actor's genre in theaters.

Xbox 360 will also see a new genre of game, the psychological action thriller, launched this year in the form of a new title called Alan Wake, according to Bach.

Here's Michelle Dockery (or Lady Mary, as she's known to most) at the premiere of her latest flick, the action thriller Non-Stop.

Lol I love laughin and watching a good horrow, action thriller or educational drama.

Charli XCX and French Montana just dropped the best action thriller of the year.

Elizabeth Banks, Ed Harris and Edward Burns co-star in this propulsive, twisty action thriller.

With the Evil Soviets pacified and ex-Nazis too old to put up a fight, the «fun» action thriller Speed turned to the Mad Serial killer.

This action thriller takes a grim vision of the future where brutality is a virtue and mercy will cost your life.

Directed by Anton Corbijn from a book by Martin Booth, «The American» is an action thriller that refuses to deliver action or thrills, instead engaging in a brand of arty formalism rarely seen outside cinema studies classrooms.

While some might tire of Scorsese's seeming obsession with the matter, it is just this pre-occupation which lends The Departed an extra dimension to lift it above the straightforward action thriller upon which it is based.

Based on Martin Booth's novel, «A Very Private Gentleman», it is less a action thriller than a visual paean to Clooney's ability to look so good while never being permitted to smile.

Director Mimi Leder has crafted a familiar, but enjoyable, action thriller.

A riveting and exhilerating edge of your seat action thriller.

In this Neo-Noir, heist gone wrong action thriller, two stoners, Steve and Billy, smoke the stash of dope they are supposed to sell.

The following decade found Corey appearing in such films as Sinatra (1992), Beethoven's 2nd (1993) and the action thriller Surviving the Game (1994).

A talented kick - boxer attempts to retire and finds himself framed for murder in this stylish action thriller.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt is a bike messenger with an envelope that dirty cop Michael Shannon desperately wants in this late summer action thriller from writer / director David Koepp.

The Movie: The idea of George Clooney playing a (mostly) silent assassin holed up in the Italian countryside with gorgeous European women sounds like recipe for a solid dramatic experience, so why Focus Features is marketing «The American» as some sort of action thriller when in fact it's an arty European film, will throw some moviegoers off and just outright anger others.

«The Peacekeeper» wants to be a taut action thriller with a message on the arms race.

Five young people find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack in this sci - fi action thriller directed by Chris Gorak.

Wayans isn't sure whether to send up Shaft and company or simply to remake the action thriller.

That same year, Pepper further enhanced his visibility with a role in the action thriller Enemy of the State.

Set primarily during one sustained action sequence (a shootout in an abandoned warehouse), «Free Fire» cooks as a straight, no - frills action thriller with comedic elements.

He appeared in the motor - cycle action thriller Torque, as well as Barbershop 2: Back in Business.

Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones, Robert Mammone and Rick Hoffman star in this bone - cracking, hard - driving action thriller.

If something has been missing from your TV screen since «24» went off the air, like an unapologetic, fist - pumping, nonstop action thriller with compelling good guys and loathsome bad guys, Cinemax's new Strike Back needs to be your appointment television for the next 10 weeks.