Sentences with phrase «miltiary espionage thriller»

I have a romance novel project on the backburner, a sexy espionage thriller based on Anna Chapman (intellectual property alert!)

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).

The fact is there is really a very very good espionage thriller here... underneath the dreadful fact Statham has been miscast.

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.

A solid Cold War espionage thriller.

This espionage thriller is still a fairly conventional network series and not nearly as subtle and complex as «The Americans.»

Much ballyhooed for its on - location filming in and around the United Nations building in Manhattan «The Interpreter» works better as a captivating drama than it does as an espionage thriller due to some sticking plot points that prevent the audience from

proclaims a Russian oligarch out of central casting while staring down Jennifer Lawrence's dress in the espionage thriller Red Sparrow.

Too violent and plot - light for Le Carré fans, not pacy or twisty enough for Bourne addicts, not shiny and fun enough for those craving James Bond and far too classy for the John Wick crowd, Red Sparrow is a good - looking, well performed, somewhat worthy espionage thriller that it's hard to recommend to anyone.

In contrast to the tonally exploitative, post-9 / 11 catastrophe smut of the Avengers tentpoles, the former plays as a clever espionage thriller built on political intrigue, disguised as a comic book movie.

An old - school espionage thriller with a movie - biz comedy twist, all the better for being (almost) entirely true.

But it's impossible to watch it without comparing it to last summer's stylish and kinetic «Atomic Blonde,» another physically demanding espionage thriller starring Charlize Theron.

Gripping Drama - Fuzzy Politics Kidman And Penn Elevate UN Thriller By Cole Smithey Much ballyhooed for its on - location filming in and around the United Nations building in Manhattan «The Interpreter» works better as a captivating drama than it does as an espionage thriller.

Playwright and screenwriter (The Reader) David Hare has gathered quite a cast to star in his espionage thriller Page 8.

This is an unmistakably Asian variant on the action movie, a sleek, slick, entertaining espionage thriller in the John Woo mold.

Although 2000 AD starts out as a routine potboiler espionage thriller of little significance, it gets supercharged about halfway through into an exciting actioner worth watching.

The modern espionage thriller is consumed with technology, prioritizing a high - tech surveillance state over the grunt work that used to be a spy's stock in trade.

Red 2 (PG - 13 for profanity, drug use and pervasive violence) Espionage thriller finds former, CIA Agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) coaxed back out of retirement and reunited with his elite team of spies to track down a portable nuclear bomb that's landed in the hands of terrorists.

With a new trailer for espionage thriller THE IMITATION GAME on its way this week, the good folks at StudioCanal have sent us a short Vine — which contains new footage from the trailer — to whet our appetites.

Premiering August 13th on TNT is Legends, a new espionage thriller developed for TV by three - time Emmy award winner Howard Gordon (24, Homeland).

• Part of the genius of Burn After Reading is the way it employs the somber aesthetics of an espionage thriller to tell a story that is, at its core, a sex farce (though admittedly one with an unusually high body count).

Much of its domestic comedy - meets - espionage thriller set - up was actually cribbed from the 1991 French farce La Totale!

The miltiary espionage thriller lacks teeth but is bolstered by a good performance from Manoj Bajpayee

Counterspy is a cartoon love letter to espionage thrillers and cold war unease.

Based on the British television series Spooks, MI - 5 is an action - packed espionage thriller.

Director Francis Lawrence has reconnected with his «Hunger Games» star Jennifer Lawrence for a dark espionage thriller about a Soviet spy ring called «sparrows.»

Gene Hackman stars in an intricate espionage thriller in which he is asked to accompany military prisoner Tommy Lee Jones from Europe to America.

While there are plenty of high points to recommend here from the giddy sophisticated comedy - romance Jewel Robbery (1932), a Pre-Code Ernst Lubitsch wannabe, to the eclectic political espionage thriller British Agent (1934) to the exotic and risque melodrama Mandalay (1934), I cast my vote for THE HOUSE ON 56TH STREET (1933) as the quintessential Kay Francis vehicle and an excellent introduction to the actress.

Whatever one might think of Allied, a glossy World War Two espionage thriller starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard as secret agents who try to forge a viable family life in the midst of a world on fire, it's worth celebrating that Robert Zemeckis is firmly dedicated to filming flesh - and - blood people again.

I have never seen the TV series but I enjoyed this espionage thriller.

Here's a movie that calls to mind both espionage thrillers (the «James Bond», «Mission: Impossible» and «Bourne» series, notably) and the work of Charlie Kaufman («Being John Malkovich», «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind», etc.), while also weaving a deeply affecting character study, as DiCaprio's character is haunted by his dead wife (Marion Cotillard) and... Well, you'll see!

It's still a good novel, but the level of intrigue almost felt like the novel should have been part of a different series, since it was more reminiscent of espionage thriller than a murder mystery.

It takes a special kind of film to lose me immediately, and «Paranoia,» a particularly sad espionage thriller with very little espionage and zero thrills, did just that.

Jennifer Lawrence takes the bull by the horns as a Russian spy in white - knuckle espionage thriller Red Sparrow.

Whether you know nothing about the game, or you are a grand master, the story of Bobby Fischer's rise to the world championship, and the toll it took on his already fragile psyche, has all the suspense and intrigue of an espionage thriller.

Roadside Attractions has released a new trailer for the espionage thriller Our Kind of Traitor.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a tense and dense espionage thriller, that weaves its story like a tightening noose, until the audience is left breathless in the cinema.

The MCU has always thrived on its ability to refocus superheroes through different lenses, from Captain America: The Winter Soldier's hardboiled espionage thriller to Ant - Man's heist movie.

This is a competent enough, if plodding, espionage thriller with mostly compelling actors (except for the lead, Jessica Chastain, a lightweight who is mysteriously being called great in this film, and who just received a Best Actress nomination) that tells the story of the painstaking intelligence gathering that led to the ultimate revenge killing, when U.S. Navy Seals exacted retribution for the murder of 3000 people on September 11, 2001, on U.S. soil.

Jennifer Lawrence lifts a solid espionage thriller.

THE VERDICT: A solid espionage thriller that's lifted by its charismatic leads, Red Sparrow commits to the brutality of its subject matter, meaning it's never easy viewing.

That is the proposition posed by Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a spellbinding espionage thriller which was nominated for Academy Awards in the Best Actor (Oldman), Screenplay and Score categories.

As discussed above, The Interview looks more like an espionage thriller than a comedy with its dark, contrasty visuals.

In 2012, she was cast in the erotic thriller Passion, the romantic drama To Wonder, the romantic comedy About Time, and an espionage thriller in A Most Wanted Man.

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.

The Cold War espionage thriller is just one of the many genres and modes of cinema subtly referenced in Barcelona and that comparatively define Stillman's distinct brand of comedy.

Can her sexy espionage thriller Red Sparrow turn that luck around?

In some ways it plays like a sardonic post-script to their great success, The Third Man, in others a transition film between the gritty but heroic espionage thrillers of the forties and fifties and the far more ambivalent and skeptical work of John Le Carre, as seen in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold just a few years later.

One story's that of a race, one is that of an espionage thriller, one's science - fiction, one's a pulpy jungle - trekking affair, etc., etc..

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (R for violence, profanity, sexuality and nudity) Screen adaptation of John le Carre's classic, espionage thriller, set at the height of the Cold War, about a disgraced, former head of British intelligence (Gary Oldman) who comes out of retirement to catch the Soviet mole who has infiltrated the agency's highest echelons.