Sentences with phrase «dark thrillers»

Eoin Purcell, UK leader of Amazon Publishing said: «We're delighted that Adam has chosen to join the Thomas & Mercer imprint - we're looking forward to helping bring his pacey, dark thrillers to a wider audience.

While not traditionally beautiful according to the Hollywood standards of yore, the American actress Brittany Murphy had «jolie laide» looks — big, brown eyes, a slightly disdainful mouth, a pointed chin, just - out - of - bed hair — which she used to great effect as she combined parts in ditzy comedies like Clueless and Just Married to meatier roles in the dark thrillers Girl, Interrupted and Don't Say A Word.

On the strength of this the Coen Brothers appear to do cold, dark thrillers better than they do comedies but Hail, Ceasar!

The dark thriller stars Elizabeth Olsen as a young woman in 1867 Paris whose aunt, Madame Raquin, is forcing her into an arranged marriage with her rich, but sickly, first cousin (Tom Felton).

Sean Penn bulks up, whoops some ass and atones for his sins in The Gunman, a dark thriller with a stacked cast, directed by Taken helmer Pierre Morel.

Stylish filmmaking makes this dark thriller worth a look, even if the tricky premise feels rather stale.

Layered and dense, there's clearly a lot going on in this dark thriller, although it's not easy to figure out what that might be.

Once the show ended, Aniston stuck squarely to that path, with the few early diversions (dark thriller Derailed and indie Friends with Money) not showing the kind of talent that we had seen her quietly unearth in Good Girl.

Warner Home Video has announced that it will release the theatrical cut of the dark thriller «Payback» on Blu - ray September 21 2009....

The writer / director's follow - up to A Single Man is a dark thriller starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal.

It appears the feel - good holiday film was more attractive to audiences than a dark thriller on the weekend after a tough presidential election and Donald Trump's surprise victory.

Reason: A dark thriller about the side effects of drug deals, No Country is the Coens» first and only film to win a Best Picture Academy Award.

EASTERN PROMISES scribe Steven Knight makes his directorial debut with Jason Statham in the lead for dark thriller, HUMMINGBIRD.

Premise: This dark thriller depicts a true story about wrestling, the Olympics and murder, and in doing so, comments on American ambition.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary... Arriving in theaters this weekend is James McTeigue's The Raven, his new dark thriller about poet Edgar Allan Poe on a hunt to stop a murderer who is following his words.

Perry is only one of a handful of familiar faces who play against type in the dark thriller.

The highly acclaimed, SXSW Audience Award - winning dark thriller from E.L. Katz's hits DVD & Blu - ray in exclusive, limited edition fan packages — order yours today!

Anthony Assad caught up with director of «The Observer Effect», Garret Walsh, ahead of his dark thriller's Dublin premiere.

The choice makes sense in theory — combining the dark thriller tones that made The Hangover a phenomenal success with the ribald stylings of Schumer and the empowerment fantasies which have made previous Feig films as popular as they are.

Ira Levin's novel The Stepford Wives was first filmed in 1975 by Bryan Forbes — a dark thriller about the lengths the men of the town of Stepford will go to in order to keep their wives in line, with a chilling score by Michael Small; it wasn't a huge success at first but went on to become something of a cult favourite and had its own kind of cultural impact.

Goodman and Winstead collided for the better in the dark thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane, where Winstead plays a young woman held captive by Goodman's character in an underground bunker.

So, the group must band together to survive the aliens and each other in this very dark thriller.

Jamie M. Dagg is set to direct the dark thriller The Importance of Blood for financing and producing partners Sculptor Media and The Walking Dead executive producer Circle of Confusion.

Director D.J. Caruso moved from television to feature films with the somber drama Salton Sea in 2002 and followed that up with the dark thriller Taking Lives and the sports drama Two for the Money.

A newly minted Oscar nominee for The Lobster, Lanthimos has the backing of A24 and a killer release date (November 3rd) so the dark thriller could quite easily find itself in the running in the Original Screenplay and Supporting Actress categories (for Nicole Kidman).

Sony Pictures has debuted the second official trailer for the dark thriller Soldado, the sequel to Sicario, Denis Villeneuve's intense thriller set along the US - Mexico border.

Adapted from David Ely's 1963 novel of the same name, this dark thriller gives middle - aged mopes a way out from their life's doldrums.

He supervised the production of films including George Clooney's 2005 Best Picture nominee Good Night, and Good Luck; the critically acclaimed family film and 2006 NAACP Image Award nominee Akeelah and the Bee, starring Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett; dark thriller Turistas, for which domestic rights were sold to Fox Atomic in a pre-emptive bid within hours of the film's first screening; James Gray's crime thriller We Own the Night, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall and Eva Mendes, which ranked as the largest - ever domestic sale at Cannes; and The Road, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron and Robert Duvall, which pre-sold to The Weinstein Company in a multi-party bidding war.

Joanna Penn does this very well with her blog on JFPenn.com, where she writes very readable articles about strange and sometimes macabre things in interesting places around the world («14 Weird And Wonderful Places To See In Spain», for instance, or «12 Of The World's Best Anatomical Museums»): this ties in well with the dark thriller nature of her fiction, and with the international locations used.

«This dark thriller is sure to please Connolly's fans, although newcomers might want to read the previous books in the series (starting with Every Dead Thing) before attempting this one.»

Nemesis by Brandon Reichs In this dark thriller, 16 - year - old Min Wilder and Noah Livingston share the same birthday and secret: Every two years, they're murdered by a strange man.

Reader's Entertainment caught up with thriller writer Donnette Smith yesterday to ask her about her new «dark thriller» entitled Cunjo.

Not exact matches

on July 31 that gave a glimpse into the dark psychological thriller centered on a couple visited by uninvited guests.

I'm a big fan of suspense thrillers, and «In a Dark, Dark Wood» was one of my favorites of the year.

Surely, oh dark and forbidding universe, a couple of red cards, a nine - goal thriller and Eliaquim Mangala putting the ball into his own net isn't too much too ask?

By all accounts the relationship between President Donald Trump and the Kremlin holds the makings of a dark, Hollywood thriller.

If this were some 1950s sci - fi thriller, the Doomsday Cloud would loom dark and ominous in the evening sky.

One of the best thrillers I read decades ago was actually Vine's A Dark Adapted Eye, and I'm not sure how the name fell off my radar in the meantime.

After receiving a rip - roaring reception from critics around the world, German mystery thriller Dark has been renewed by Netflix for a second season.

2018-04-07 11:28 After receiving a rip - roaring reception from critics around the world, German mystery thriller Dark has been renewed by Netflix for a second season.

Winner of two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including Best Screenplay, and created with the close participation of Dr. Zimbardo himself, «The Stanford Prison Experiment» is a chilling, edge - of - your - seat thriller about the dark side of power and the effects of imprisonment.

Now comes The American, a European - set film from photographer - turned - director Anton Corbijn (he made Control, about Joy Division's Ian Curtis), a thriller based on a 1990 Martin Booth novel that promises some high - toned excitement, and a chance to see the dark side of George Clooney - that is, the side that isn't being a handsome scamp or earnest humanitarian.

Carpenter recently completed production on the psychological thriller THE FACTORY as the female lead opposite John Cusack in the Warner Bros. and Dark Castle Entertainment film directed by Morgan O'Neil, and produced by Joel Silver, David Gambino, and Robert Zemeckis.

A complex espionage thriller that makes impeccable use of a careful pace to stretch the tension to its maximum and an appropriately dark cinematography to recreate the paranoia of the»70s and the Cold War maneuvers, while Gary Oldman underacts in a perfect performance.

There are five more murders on the way in this dark, moody thriller.

Summary: Based on Herman Koch's international bestselling novel, Oren Moverman's THE DINNER is a dark psychological thriller about a fierce showdown between two couples during the course of an ornately prepared meal at a fancy restaurant.

Last year's misleadingly titled «Fifty Shades Darker,» directed by James Foley and scripted by Niall Leonard (the author's husband), piled on the swoon - worthy luxury goods plus a few dubious thriller flourishes, even as it dragged out Anastasia's increasingly tedious ambivalence toward her adoring stalker of a boyfriend.

The grand tradition of French thrillers favors dark humor, morally dubious characters, and twisted plot developments.

I haven't read the book yet but I'm already disappointed on how the show delivered suspense and thriller (I heard the book has a darker tone).

Which would be a shame, because there's much to savor in the film, a dark and difficult sci - fi thriller about one hell of an existential crisis.