Sentences with phrase «form of a thriller»

Like all of his books after Black Robe (his only attempt at historical fiction), it takes the form of a thriller, with a seductively relentless pace reminiscent of Simenon at his best.

Olivier Assayas's Personal Shopper is its own unique form of thriller, as much a Hitchcockian psychosexual mind game as it is a thoughtful meditation on grief and the afterlife.

Vaccine Nation is a dramatization of this debate, presented in the form of a thriller that will hopefully leave you breathless and make you think.

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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.

Will and I listened to this thriller in audio book form together on our trip to the Berkshires and it kept both of us on our toes from beginning to end.

I've always been interested in creative writing, and now that I'm retired I'm pursuing that interest in the form of fictional crime thrillers set in real locations.

This is a fantastically spun tale which starts out as a bleak expose about death for cash, which forms into a story of friendship, but delves back down into revenge, reemerges for justice and redemption, and then turns into a cat and mouse thriller for a while until unraveling into a blood - thirsty mess of explosions and bullets before finding its ending.

All the President's Men takes the form of a political thriller with dogged journalists as the protagonists.

Although at first i wasn't sure if i wanted to watch this movie as it is about ballet even if it is a psychological thriller, however it truly won me over, i think Natalie Portman delivers a stunning and top of the form performance that is truly worthy of the oscar.

Basically, the creature is supposed to the the mother - of - life, and this basically takes that idea and puts it in the form of a formulaic action thriller.

As a father tries to scramble and find his missing daughter, «Search» uses all the technological forms of communication to make a taut, tense and terrific thriller.

Returning alongside writer / director / producer James DeMonaco to produce the next chapter of the thriller are Blumhouse Productions» Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity and Insidious), alongside Sébastien K. Lemercier (Assault on Precinct 13, Four Lovers) and Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay (Pain & Gain, Transformers), Brad Fuller (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th) and Andrew Form (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, The Amityville Horror, A Nightmare on Elm Street).

Part of what makes German director Christian Petzold's pulp psychological thriller so special is the way it wrings complex shades of suspense and disquiet out of very basic techniques, and its finale — the most sublime gasp moment of the year in film — is a master class in simplicity of form, cut almost entirely from just two angles and carried by stars Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld, whose performances have been building to this one exchange of subtleties.

Further confirmation of that assessment arrives in the form of Awake, in which Christensen sleepwalks through a ludicrous thriller as Clay Beresford, a wealthy corporate bigshot who is forced to undergo a heart transplant to save his life.

Red Sparrow is a throwback to old - fashioned, pre-Glasnost spy thriller paradigms, where the Russian bad guys work for the state, and train intelligence officers and other recruits in various forms of manipulation and blackmail in order to further the position of the Kremlin.

True to form, the service also continues to deliver a slew of flicks you've probably never heard of but are bound to fall in love with, like the 2013 short film Tim & Susan Have Matching Handguns or the French thriller Faultless.

This also isn't the first text by Talty to receive the big screen treatment, with the author having reportedly ghost - written «A Captain's Duty» which formed the basis of Paul Greengrass» maritime thriller Captain Phillips.

It's appropriate that the end credits of Halloweens hould refer to the menacing hometown boy as The Shape: this superior low - budget thriller is form made fiercely functional, style as the delicious complicity between storyteller and audience.

Here is a movie that pulls from multiple genres to form a solid mystery thriller, at the heart of which is an intimate portrait of a broken man trying to get back on his feet again.

by Bill Chambers Although it inspired the quintessential U.S. crime picture of the past decade, Ringo Lam's 1987 Hong Kong action - thriller City on Fire suffers in a freshly - Americanized form: Dubbed and revised dialogue does not Reservoir Dogs make it, and the few nods to western pop - culture induce groans.

Netflix has released a new trailer for its fantasy action - thriller Bright, which sees director David Ayer (End of Watch, Suicide Squad) directing Will Smith and Joel Edgerton as two LAPD police officers — one human and one orc — who form a most unlikely duo working to keep the mean streets of Los Angeles safe from a sinister underworld filled with gang violence and dark forces at work.

John Krasinski's supernatural thriller A Quiet Place already has a good hook in the form of unseen creatures who kill people when they make noise — as seen in the movie's short Super Bowl teaser — but this expanded trailer adds an extra scary angle with the reveal that Emily Blunt's character is pregnant.

The purported circumstances surrounding the latter forms the basis of Roland Emmerich's foray into historical thriller territory, known simply as Anonymous.

A bold new action - thriller from director David Ayer (known for such box office hits as Suicide Squad, End of Watch and Training Day), Bright follows the story of two LAPD police officers played by Smith, a human named Officer Ward, and Edgerton, an orc named Officer Jakoby, who form a most unlikely duo working to keep the mean streets of Los Angeles safe from a sinister, fantasy underworld filled with violence and dark forces at work.

Synopsis: LIFE is an intense sci - fi thriller about a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life - form that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth.

One review on ScreenAnarchy says «it's an example of a master attempting a new direction — in the form of a good, old - fashioned, bloody, spirited 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.

√ Worst, or at least, given the talents involved, most disappointing: Nicholas Winding Refn's DOA erotic thriller «Neon Demon,» Terrence Malice's free - form «Knight of Cups» (more stream - of - consciousness drivel), the Coens» yuk - yuk sophomoric «Hail, Caesar!

With this impressionistic and often daringly enigmatic thriller taken from a short novel by Jonathan Ames, British fimmaker Lynne Ramsay («Ratcatcher», «Morvern Callar») is back on top form with a vengeance — quite literally, though that emotion is not hers but part of the story.

It can be categorized as an underdog sports drama, a political thriller, a history lesson in the Russian government of the 50s, but most importantly it centers on the teacher / coach / student relationship and the close bonds that are formed.

Deadline is reporting that Entourage star Adrien Grenier has found his next project in the form of action thriller Marauders, alongside action legend Bruce Willis.

In a recent profile with The New York Times, Jason Blum — the producer behind Get Out, Jordan Peele's massively popular 2017 thriller about a young black man who faces a terrifying form of racism in a predominantly white suburb — announced that one of his followup projects will be a horror film about black lesbians living in the «burbs, directed by Dee Rees.

«Life» is a sci - fi thriller about a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to horror when they find an evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars.

Half - formed young adult adaptations, thrillers that star Ethan Hawke because Nicolas Cage was unavailable, 3D boyband concert movies and a Riddick sequel, with only «The World's End» and «You're Next» to save the day, and a crop of good arthouse fare if they are lucky enough to playing near you («Short Term 12,» «Ain't Them Bodies Saints,» «Afternoon Delight,» «Drinking Buddies «-RRB-.

Based on the play by Michel Marc Bouchard, this seems to be more of a genre - led entry, a «psychological thriller» that, on paper, nods to «Festen» and Patricia Highsmith, and an experiment that Dolan has described as his «most satisfying journey through this form of art,» with the filmmaker leading the mostly unknown cast himself.

Deadline reports that submarine thriller Hunter Killer has found its villain in the form of Willem Dafoe.

Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven has an ace up his sleeve in the form of an Oscar - worthy performance from Isabelle Huppert in this rape - revenge thriller.

Life is an intense sci - fi thriller about a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life - form that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth.

Now there's one more, in the hazy form of Visions: a horror thriller set to star Isla Fisher and now Hell On Wheels» Anson Mount.

The final film of Brittany Murphy arrives in the form of Abandoned, a low - grade psychological thriller put together with little imagination, and thus destined to be nothing more than the answer to a morbid trivia question.

Success and honesty have become diametrically opposed forces in 99 Homes, a one - percenter housing thriller that pits a wolf of real estate in the form of an e-cigarette munching Michael Shannon against a hardworking everyman day laborer (Andrew Garfield).

Anecdotal supporting evidence arrives in the form of 36th Precinct, a top - notch criminal thriller import from France which finds a pair of cops skirting the edges of the law in the name of their jobs as well as macho competition.

WHY: Michael Bay has wasted the better part of the last decade making shitty «Transformers» films, so it's nice to see him return to form with «13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,» an exhilarating and surprisingly apolitical military thriller that reconfirms why he's one of the best action directors in the business.

The stealth campaign kept with the previous two films in the J.J. Abrams - produced franchise - the shakycam marauding monster mash Cloverfield (2008) and the elegantly claustrophobic maybe - it's - the - apocalypse thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)- both of which seemed to emerge out of nowhere, fully formed and ready to go.

The handling of the BDSM sex play is dreadfully cliched in terms of structure (3 heated romps and a final dramatic one); however, the actual presentation of the «love scenes» recalls the style of director Adrian Lyne (Unfaithful, Nine 1/2 Weeks), favoring artsy close - ups of human form, curve and the intimate sensations of touch, feel and response, rather than the raw carnality seen in something like Basic Instinct (my generation's landmark erotic thriller movie).

Both types of films come in a variety of forms or genre - hybrids: sci - fi or space, thrillers, crime - drama, war, horror, westerns, etc..

The Yakuza Sydney Pollack, USA, 1974, 35 mm, 112m East meets West in the form of two iconic stars: Japanese gangster film star Ken Takakura teams with Mitchum in a thriller set in Tokyo's treacherous criminal underworld.

Howard allows the peaks and troughs of a thriller, and in spite of this not being the most typical story for that form, the overall effect succeeds.

Martin Scorsese's remake of the Hong Kong thriller INFERNAL AFFAIRS (2002) is a thrilling return to form, a psychological gangster film whose diabolically convoluted premise follows two men living double lives, their manufactured identities sustained by a web of lies that simultaneously keeps them alive and strangles their souls.

Alas, I suppose it's not the role of the filmmaker to inform us, as that is something we should be doing ourselves, so it's hard to be annoyed at Gaghan himself for making a purist form of political thriller.