Sentences with phrase «list of thriller»

This time around I'm looking at a few more from the list of thriller or suspense writers.

But I took a look at the small list of thriller / suspense writers over at the Writers» Platform Building Campaign and realised that I knew several of them (get me, I actually know people!)

Not exact matches

That's why business professionals may want to take a few lessons from Steve Alten, who has published 16 books (15 thrillers and a comedy), has cracked the New York Times bestseller list four times and has sold millions of copies of his books.

Unlike previous years, Ghana recorded a lot of new faces on the nomination list; some of whom Included new actor, Joseph Otsiman who got the nod for Best Actor In Supporting Role for his performance in the drama thriller film, The Cursed Ones directed by Nana Obiri Yeboah, who was also nominated for AMAA 2016 Award For Best Director category.

This list is a mix of the thrillers, contemporary fiction, & YA novels that I've read in the last few months.

Thrillers and action films are this Chinese - American actress Lucy Liu can now add proud mother to her list of credits.

But for me the dullest and most timid aspect of this year's Oscar list is its almost ignoring Tom Ford's brilliant, ruthlessly provocative thriller Nocturnal Animals, a double - narrative about an unhappy art dealer (Amy Adams) who gets the manuscript of an unpublished novel through the post from her estranged first husband (Jake Gyllenhaal), and the action of this explicit crime thriller is dramatised as she imagines it, with this very ex-husband pictured in the lead.

Just like an Indian curry dish, the list is filled with all kinds of genres — comedy, romance, drama, horror, thriller, et al..

DreamWorks Pictures» / Fox 2000 Pictures» upcoming dramatic thriller directed by three - time Academy Award ® - winning director Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List) and starring two - time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump, Philadelphia), has been titled Bridge of Spies.

Whether you're in the mood for a nostalgia - filled pick or a serious thriller, you're sure to like something from this list of movies now available for digital rental or purchase.

Its opening film is the British - produced mountaineering thriller Everest, featuring Anglo - American glamour in the shape of Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Josh Brolin; its competition strand has an impressive list of international auteurs, including Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Alexander Sokurov (Francofonia), Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa); and a number of authentic coups, including the world premiere screening of Black Mass, the much - hyped gangster film featuring Johnny Depp as James «Whitey» Bulger, and a first look at Beasts of No Nation, the African - set war thriller that represents Netflix's most serious shot yet across Hollywood's bows.

An adaptation of the Nobel Prize - winning author José Saramago's novel «The Double» (and not the thematically similar Dostoyevsky book of the same name which confusingly, features elsewhere on this list) this psychological thriller sounds a little bit more damaged and arthouse than Villeneuve's aforementioned studio film and given uncompromising nature of that picture, we're rather psyched to see how «Enemy» turns out.

The book is listed as a thriller and I can see this working since Affleck used a lot of thriller type elements in his directorial debut Gone Baby Gone a couple years ago and I loved that movie.

Sandra Bullock's stratospheric paycheck for the Oscar - winning sci - fi thriller «Gravity» has launched her to the top of Forbes» list of top - earning actresses.

In three weeks... Look out for superior British horror thriller Kill List... Terrence Malick's dazzling keynote film Days Of Heaven is reissued...

As with 2010 — which saw Christopher Nolan's mind - bending thriller Inception snatching victory from Pixar's heart - warming sequel Toy Story 3 — the team here at Flickering Myth have put together individual lists of our favourites, which we've then used to compile an overall selection of our «Top 10 Movies of 2011».

William H. Macy, Thomas Mann, Elisabeth Rohm, Diego Luna and Michael Parks also star in this thriller, which we're bumping to the top of our must - see list for the latter half of 2016.

Kill List not only qualifies as a fantastic thriller, but it truly showcases some of the best horror elements seen on screen in many years with its twists and turns, all done in unwavering slow - burn style.

Acclaimed director Denis Villeneueve explores the war against the Mexican drug cartels with the action thriller Sicario, which topped one of our writers» individual favourite lists and claims # 9 in our countdown.

In their list, a different Michael comes out on top: Haneke's cryptic and rather brilliant 2005 thriller «Caché» (or «Hidden,» if you prefer), which only came in at # 44 on the Telegraph list, is their pick of the last 10 years.

Perhaps it was that last film that drew her to this new project, since The Invitation has elements of horror in it, though «creeper» might be a better designation for its odd take on the genre (its imdb page lists it as a «thriller»).

Because he sometimes enjoys finishing one movie while starting another (see Jurassic Park and Schindler's List), Steven Spielberg is kicking off work on Roald Dahl adaptation The BFG even as he puts the final touches to Cold War thriller Bridge Of Spies.

The website has released its 100 best reviewed movies of 2017, with Jordan Peele's social thriller «Get Out» topping the list this year.

In news coming out of the Berlin Film Market, Deadline is reporting that Milla Jovovich is set to headline the sci - fi action thriller Hummingbird, which is being directed by Marcus Kryler and Fredrik Akerstrom from a Black List script by John McClain.

What You Need to Know: Judging strictly from the logline, this may seem like a hokey Screen Gems thriller that doesn't belong on any list of anticipation whatsoever, save for one authored by the Babysitters Club.

Honorable Mentions: I'm not actually sure how «The Skin I Live In» missed out on the list; it's one of my favorite Almodóvar pictures of recent years, a nasty little genre thriller that seems to sum up so many of the director's obsessions.

Oculus was enjoyably spooky (give or take a slightly lousy ending), his Ouija prequel was surprisingly good, and his home - invasion thriller Hush even made our list of the «Best Movies Of 2016 That.of the «Best Movies Of 2016 That.Of 2016 That...

Since then, he's sold a variety of scripts, including Hitchcockian thriller Grand Piano and The Claim, which sees a single father trying to rescue his kidnapped daughter from another couple, and which landed on the 2010 Black List.

It may have been 1991's The Silence of the Lambs that led to Hannibal Lecter's iconic status as well as his anointment as cinema's all - time greatest villain (at least according to the American Film Institute's 100 Heroes & Villains list back in 2003), but the cannibalistic doctor's first on - screen appearance can actually be found in this compelling thriller which writer - director Michael Mann adapted from Thomas Harris» novel Red Dragon.

David Robert Mitchell, director of 2014's horror hit It Follows, made this list last year with this same feature and though we still don't have much details outside of the cast (Riley Keough, Andrew Garfield, Topher Grace) this looks to shift his focus from social horror to crime thriller.

Based on the bestselling novel by former spy turned author John le Carré, the movie looks like a throwback to those great, low - key political thrillers from the 1970s, and if that's not enough to pique your interest, then a brief glance at the cast list — a veritable who's who of the best British actors working today, including Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong and Benedict Cumberbatch of «Sherlock» fame — will almost certainly change your mind.

An exemplary example of not only the courtroom drama but the murder mystery thriller sets of sub genres, Gregory Hoblit's 1996 classic Primal Fear is a movie that to this day stands the test of time thanks to an anchoring turn by the once A listing Richard Gere and the firecracker debut by the ever young Edward Norton in his freakishly good role of troubled, murder accused youth Aaron Stampler.

It features artwork from the film, an overview of bonus features, a list of scene selections, and the obligatory ad for Shyamalan's other «record - setting thrillers» on DVD.

To the list of failed cinematic action heroines like TANK GIRL (1994) and BARB WIRE (1996), now add THE DEMOLITIONIST, an ambitious but fatally derivative and tepid sci - fi thriller.

«The Snowman:» A hapless crime thriller in which the protagonist's name, Harry Hole, is the least of its laundry list of problems.

He's injected odd moments of kitchen - sink realism into a gangster saga (Down Terrace) and surreal dollops of WTF horror into a hit - men thriller (Kill List); surely no one expected director Ben Wheatley to play a comedy about a camping vacation straight, right?

It's also worth mentioning how clichéd the «list of secret agents falls into the wrong hands» MacGuffin has become in the spy thriller.

Given the currency of contained horror films and psychological thrillers — «low budget horror films set within a single location» appears on every «Screenwriters Wanted» list in Hollywood — it it's no surprise that the above breakdown sounds so familiar.

Pictures comes the action thriller «Run All Night,» starring Oscar nominee Liam Neeson («Schindler's List,» «Non-Stop»), Joel Kinnaman («The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo»), Vincent D'Onofrio («The Judge»), and Oscar nominee Ed Harris («Pollock,» «The Hours»), under the direction of Jaume Collet - Serra («Non-Stop»).

The list includes «Colette,» a historical biopic with Keira Knightley as the famed French novelist; «Monsters and Men,» a drama about police brutality that features John David Washington (son of Denzel); «Wildlife,» a coming - of - age story that marks the directorial debut of Paul Dano; and «The Catcher Was a Spy,» a historical thriller with Paul Rudd.

From executive producer Ben Wheatley (director of Kill List and High - Rise) comes this knife - edged thriller about a gang of mercenary soldiers who take cover in an abandoned bulldog tank — only to find the real enemy is within.

Farewell (Unrated) Timely espionage thriller, based on the real - life exploits of a KGB defector (Emir Kusturica) who handed over a list of Soviet spies to French President Francois Mitterand (Philippe Magnan) at the height of the Cold War.

«HEARTBEAT DETECTOR» (Nicolas Klotz) I am willing to bet a substantial amount that most of you reading this list have not seen this astonishing corporate thriller.

With the political thriller «House of Cards» Netflix has established itself as a force in the world of original TV programming and made our list as the 6th best show on television.

As an agent, she represents contemporary romance, thriller, adventure, paranormal / urban fantasy, science fiction, combinations of the genres listed, middle grade (fantasy, adventure, science fiction), picture books (special stories that deliver a subtle, non-didactic message; illustrations not needed), self - help, science nonfiction, and business books.

She is seeking contemporary romance, thriller, adventure, paranormal / urban fantasy, science fiction, combinations of the genres listed, middle grade (fantasy, adventure, science fiction), picture books (special stories that deliver a subtle, non-didactic message; illustrations not needed), self - help, science nonfiction, and business books.

Two acclaimed novels (both of which earned slots on our Best Books of 2014 list) and an edgy supernatural thriller are out in paperback today:

Jonathan Lyons represents a select list of authors of biographies, history, science, pop culture, sports, general narrative non-fiction, mysteries, thrillers, science fiction and fantasy, and young adult fiction, in addition to serving as subagent in the United States for several agencies in the UK.

The first of her Cat Connolly thriller trilogy LITTLE BONES was published in May 2016 and hit the bestseller list, spending 8 weeks in the Top 10 with 4 weeks at No. 1.

This is the fifth consecutive time I've assembled, for Kirkus, a year - end list of my favorite crime, mystery, and thriller novels published in the United States during the preceding 12 months.