Sentences with phrase «as a thriller inspired»

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Inspired by true events, THE CONNECTION serves as the European flipside to William Friedkin's classic thriller THE FRENCH CONNECTION.

Several Ligue 1 players featured as a Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang - inspired Gabon beat Mali 4 - 3 in Beauvais in a friendly international thriller.

Inspired by nocturnal thrillers such as The Warriors and John Carpenter's Escape from New York, with his»71 the dynamite first - time feature director Yann Demange gives us his take on the Troubles, a violent 30 - year struggle over the constitutional status of Northern Ireland.

«Training Day» is still a very interesting thriller where Denzel Washington truly shines just as the lucid but equally necessary and inspired work of Ethan Hawke.

[Watch the trailer for true story - inspired The Disappointments Room right HERE] Disturbia director D.J. Caruso returns to the horror genre with a haunted house film that was inspired by true events in The Disappointments Room, a psychological thriller that they are saying is in the same vein as The Shining.

Positioned as a kind of educational thriller, Loving Vincent follows Armand Roulin (one of van Gogh's many subjects) as he unravels the circumstances that led to the young artist's suicide, spotlighting details of his life, and meeting many of the people who would inspire his paintings, along the away.

His 1928 thriller Spies (Spione) belongs to a different tradition, one that came out of the rapid - paced adventure and crime serials of the twenties that were inspired primarily by the hugely successful (and at times surreal) pulp crime serials of Louis Feuillade in France, such as Fantomas and Les Vampires.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG - 13 for intense violence and brief profanity) Chris Pine stars as the title character previously played by Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin and Ben Affleck, in this reboot of the franchise inspired by the Tom Clancy series of espionage thrillers.

Co-written by estimable Frownland director Ronald Bronstein, it's inspired by the experiences of street kid Arielle Holmes, who plays a fictional version of herself alongside actor Caleb Landry Jones in what's described as «a tumultuous drama about a New York City couple battling addiction in the midst of a love affair»... And finally, the prize for oddest remake of the week: French thriller specialist Jean - François Richet is changing gear rather alarmingly with his, er, «reboot» is the word I'm looking for, of Claude Berri's 1977 comedy Un moment d'égarement, in which two fathers take their sexy adolescent daughters on vacation — and one of them is seduced by the other's jeune fille.

Always a spirited devotee of old - school Hollywood genres, Guillermo del Toro achieves in his latest film, «The Shape of Water,» an inspired melding of creature feature, spy thriller and wondrously perverse love story, the latter sustained by Sally Hawkins» achingly delicate performance as Eliza, a mute cleaning lady who immediately bonds with the imprisoned merman (played, naturally, by Del Toro's prosthetic - happy muse, Doug Jones).

«The Collection» may have been inspired by the 1967 thriller «Wait Until Dark,» as the publicity materials claim, but it hardly strays from the torture subgenre of the «Saw» franchise.

Though it doesn't play as a thriller (it's not trying to, particularly), «Kill Your Darlings» tells the tense, disturbing, sometimes - moving backstory of a few inspired and reckless geniuses who redrew the boundaries of literary expression.

The Stanford Prison Experiment (R for profanity, sexual references and abusive behavior) Psychological thriller inspired by the 1971 study conducted by Professor Philip Zimbardo (Billy Crudup) in which college students were enlisted to serve as guards and inmates in a mock penitentiary.

When asked about the genre Black Panther fits into, Coogler described it as an «espionage thriller,» inspired by classic James Bond films.

As a writer, he is the award - winning author of Full Bone Moon, a crime thriller inspired by the 1970 murder - decapitations of two West Virginia University students, set in his home town of Morgantown, West Virginia.

Publishers Weekly described Beyond Justice as: «A riveting legal thriller... breaking new ground with a vengeance... demonically entertaining and surprisingly inspiring.»

But a lengthy conversation about artificial intelligence with a friend back in 2010 inspired William Hertling to write his first techno thriller — a move that would jump - start a successful career as a self - published author.

Mark Edwards writes psychological thrillers in which scary things happen to ordinary people and is inspired by writers such as Stephen King, Ira Levin, Ruth Rendell and Linwood Barclay.

The Remedy thriller, announced in 2005 for both 360 and PC, has gone in a matter of weeks from being almost entirely under wraps to a 360 exclusive, a May release, an episodic adventure in an untraditional gaming sense, a project inspired by Twin Peaks and as having «seasons» with planned DLC.

Inspired by underground treasure trove of famous collector Abboudi Bou Jaoudeh, the ICA will be presenting rare film posters from the archives for the first time in the UK, as well as some newly commissioned works, such as the imaginary posters of Sophia Al - Maria of the Gulf art collective GCC for her unfinished rape - revenge thriller, Beretta.

In 2007, film critic Jonathan Romney described Starr's new silent film Theda: «In a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural art of the silent - era actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporate.

Journalist Misha Glenny, whose book McMafia inspired the current BBC crime thriller starring James Norton, said he believes London has become a «centre of laundering filthy lucre» as «unsavoury characters» from around the world buy up property.