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Robert De Niro is Gil, a dangerous and obsessed supporter of San Francisco Giants baseballer Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes) in this thriller from Tony Scott (Spy Game, Top Gun)....

Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor at Cannes for his role as a brutal enforcer out to rescue a teenage girl in this thriller from the writer - director of We Need to Talk About Kevin.

When their charter plane crashes on a snowy mountain, two strangers (Winslet and Elba) must fight to survive the elements in this thriller from Oscar nominee Hany Abu - Assad...

When their charter plane crashes on a snowy mountain, two strangers (Winslet and Elba) must fight to survive the elements in this thriller from Oscar nominee Hany Abu - Assad (Paradise Now, Omar).

Not exact matches

Actor Joel Edgerton («Warrior,» «Exodus,» «The Great Gatsby») wrote, directed and stars in the film, which is clearly reminiscent of similar thrillers like «Fear,» «Fatal Attraction» and even Michael Haneke's fantastic «Caché,» but gleefully twisted enough to distance itself from the pack.

Paramount's crime thriller «The Gambler» opened to a middling $ 9.1 million from 2,478 locations, while The Weinstein Company's «Big Eyes» floundered in its debut with only $ 3 million from 1,307 locations.

Another excellent win for Arsenal last night in Nottingham, and another four goal thriller, started by another cracker from Xhaka!

Aside from that it could be another nailbiting shootout like last season's thriller against Chelsea, and if it is, one United keeper could go down in history as the one that «saved» the record.

Boston College's stretch - run offensive explosion (36 points per game in the second half of the regular season) still feels too good to be true, and a meeting with the Hawkeyes — traditionally a stylistic kindred spirit — inside a baseball stadium should remind the Eagles of the first - to -14-points thrillers from whence they came.

The Bulldogs are shooting nearly that well from deep as a team (39 percent), and they've ridden a smooth shooting stroke to success all season, not just in their semifinal thriller.

You can pretty much pick any race from Michigan and it'll be a thriller, but the 2000 CART race has to go down as one of the all - time classics in American open - wheel history.

Sportswriters decried his license — he would turn an ordinary pop fly into a thriller where three fielders ran into each other and were knocked breathless in their superb effort to save that ball from being a home run!

When we finally got our «magic 3» of Lacazette, Ozil and Alexis all playing together against Everton a few weeks ago, all three got on the scoreboard and it looked like we were back in contention for the Top Four again with a stunning 5 - goal thriller from the Gunners.

Last August it was a nightmare game from a defensive viewpoint as we conceded four times in a seven goal thriller.

The seven goal thriller between Slovenia's Olimpija Ljubljana and AS Trencin of Slovakia in the UEFA Champions League qualifiers saw two Nigerians getting among the goals from the five who took part in the tie.

Two teams in urgent need of a win will seek out comfort in each other this weekend, as Arsenal, without a win in four Premier League games, take on third from bottom Blackburn at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday, with the Lancashire club bidding to repeat their four - goal heroics in last September's seven - goal thriller between the two sides.

Watch all the goals from every Champions League match played on Tuesday evening as Chelsea edged out Sporting, Man City were held by Roma and PSG beat Barcelona in a five - goal thriller.

But Kerber, inspired by a message from Graf, made clear before the match that all the pressure was on her opponent and she mercilessly exploited her weaknesses in a thriller at Rod Laver Arena.

Stephen Lotinga, chief executive of the Publishers Association and a former adviser to Clegg, said: «The link between publishing and politics can be traced throughout history, from Winston Churchill winning the Nobel Prize in Literature to Baroness Ruth Rendell's crime thrillers and murder mysteries.

Keith Simpson on a cook book in which Norman Tebbit manages to combine his love of wild game and his sense of humour, and a chillingly plausible political thriller from Henry Porter

There's obvious appeal in what - ifs, and they aren't confined to science fiction: they feature in everything from romcoms (Sliding Doors) to thrillers (Fatherland).

Although it looks like a scene from the sci - fi thriller «Gravity,» the bright pop of light in this image comes from ASASSN - 15lh, the most powerful supernova ever discovered.

For now, he suggests a name for the chiral Majorana fermion his team discovered: the «angel particle,» in reference to the best - selling 2000 thriller «Angels and Demons» in which a secret brotherhood plots to blow up the Vatican with a time bomb whose explosive power comes from matter - antimatter annihilation.

Forget the headphones you saw in the Warner Brothers thriller Contact, as well as the guttural throbs emanating from loudspeakers at the Very Large Array in that 1997 movie.

Others who have died from HIV and AIDS include Queen's lead vocalist and songwriter Freddie Mercury; heartthrob actor Rock Hudson; Anthony Perkins, who played Norman Bates in the psychological thriller Psycho; TV dad Robert Reed of The Brady Bunch; and Tom Fogerty, lead singer of the rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival.

As for the other activities: Books may relax a busy mind (as long as they're not thrillers), but the light from the TV can keep your body in awake mode.

This riveting thriller of a book is the closest thing to a «fly - on - the - wall» story of the roller coaster ride on which Margaret Cahill embarked following her shocking and wholly unexpected cancer diagnosis upon her return with partner Stephen in 2012 from an Astrology Conference in New Orleans USA.

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.

While my taste in books ranges from YA to historical fiction to chick lit, I've found myself gravitating toward mysteries & thrillers lately.

Written by Cleveland Oakes, February 27th, 2017, at 4:33 p.m. Tweet to @Oakes945 From New York Times # 1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes a detective thriller in a police beat like no other.

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From top to toe this is one of the best crafted, best acted, most tautly presented thrillers I've seen in a really long time.

The Interpreter tries to cast itself in the Hitchcockian tradition of Secret Agent and The Man Who Knew Too Much, but apart from the film's climactic bus sequence and another nicely crafted sequence toward the movie's end, this thriller never visually builds much tension or suspense.

Brad Pitt fights back against the worldwide zombie invasion in this footage from director Marc Forster's thriller, in theaters June 21st.

With her role as the epnoymous character in Frida (2002), Hayek disappeared into her subject so convincingly that not only would she return to the good graces of critics, but earn an Oscar nomination as well.Hayek would spend the coming years enjoying superstar status with everything from comedic turns on sitcoms like Ugly Betty (which she produced) and 30 Rock, to meaty roles in dramatic thrillers like Savages.

Sharlto Copley, Mandla Gaduka and Kenneth Nkosi are shown in a scene from the sci - fi thriller DISTRICT 9.

J. Michael Straczynski's original script was jettisoned in favor of an unfinished one by political thriller specialist Matthew Michael Carnahan (State of Play, Lions for Lambs), with «LOST» - alum script doctors Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, Cloverfield) and Damon Lindelof (Star Trek Into Darkness, Prometheus) brought in later to write a host of reshoots, including a new climax and ending to the film (the repeated use and imbibing of Pepsi products during these scenes would indicate the source for much of the additional reshoot budget), that pushed the release date from a winter of 2012 release to the summer of 2013.

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.

The circumscribed aesthetic of the cheap thriller film - within - the - film that Binoche is shooting — made clear from the shot - reverse shot editing and close - ups antithetical to the look of the rest of the film, shot mostly in single takes — signals that we're somehow outside of Haneke's world, even though we're actually buried deep within its layers.

Two strangers who have met in one another's dreams come face to face in the real world with disturbing results in this psychological thriller from Mexico.

A man learns being an avenger for good is tougher than it looks in this independent thriller from filmmaker Chris Chan Lee.

No, I'll tell you what doesn't help my associating this film with «Pusher»: the fact that it's a thriller that is far from thrilling, and even then, at least this film has the courtesy to bore me in a language that I actually understand.

Those promos made the film look like a taut thriller, while the end result landed in a place far, far away from that depicted genre.

Corruption is the law of the land in the every - city of Edison, and the only soul brave enough to peer into the fire and face the wrath of an entire squad of corrupt cops is a fresh - faced journalist in this neo-noir thriller from television director - turned - feature helmer David J. Burke.

By 1965, she was working in Black Spurs, one of producer A.C. Lyles» B - Westerns, renowned for their use of aging genre stars, and Owens retired from movies after portraying Richard Egan's love interest in the low - budget espionage thriller The Destructors (1968).

In addition to being a first - rate suspense - thriller, «The American» is also a character study of Jack, aka Edward, as he runs from trouble in Sweden to hide out in a small Italian village posing as a photographeIn addition to being a first - rate suspense - thriller, «The American» is also a character study of Jack, aka Edward, as he runs from trouble in Sweden to hide out in a small Italian village posing as a photographein Sweden to hide out in a small Italian village posing as a photographein a small Italian village posing as a photographer.

Once seen in close - up (or even in a medium shot), Skelton Knaggs, with his outsized head, large eyes, and prominent ears, is seldom forgotten by filmgoers; for two decades, from the mid -»30s until his death in 1955, directors loved to use Skelton Knaggs to dress a horror set or establish a menacing mood in a thriller with his mere presence in a shot.

He made his first appearance in an American film in Victor Halperin's grisly thriller Torture Ship, playing one of the criminals on whom well - intentioned (but quite mad) scientist Irving Pichel plans to perform glandular experiments, but he soon moved up to higher budgeted films from the major studios, although still almost inevitably in sinister roles.

The film definitely had potential in being something much better due to its very good concept, but for what it turned out, it was decent and with a cool thriller that was very interesting, it saved the film from being a total dud.

If The Raven would only settle down a little, take in all the atmosphere it's created rather than rush through it on the way to the next thrill, there could have been something interesting here, a period version of Copycat, the terrific little thriller from 1995 about a killer who recreates famous serial murders of the past.