Sentences with phrase «of classic thrillers»

After their manipulation of horror conventions in As Above, So Below, No Escape takes the best elements of classic thrillers and turns in something unique.

And for those wondering where you'll get your shark fix when the week comes to a close, not to worry: A digitally remastered version of the classic thriller Jaws comes out on Blu - ray August 14.

Twenty years since the release of the classic thriller Speed starring Keanu Reeves, the Avengers director Joss Whedon has spoken for the first time...

Like something out of a classic thriller, the cool cane chair in brilliant white creates a vantage point from which to soak up the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

This classic disturbing thriller, which highlights a group of circus sideshow acts who take vengeance on their leader when a beautiful trapeze artist does him wrong, was banned in the UK for 30 years and wasn't available in the country until a home - video version was approved in the early 1990s.

An alleged prequel to the sci - fi / horror / thriller classic Alien (1979), the director Scott was always hesitant to speak of it in such prequel terms, and instead spoke of it in larger and vaguer terms — and....

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.

Head out to enjoy Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller, «North by Northwest» outdoors on a big screen at North Carolina Museum of Art's museum park theater, 9 p.m., Friday, Aug. 12.

My interests include movies (comedy, action, thriller, little bit of romance), music (rock, reggae, classic rock, anything similar), riding back roads, hanging out with...

Technology advanced and filmmakers grew more ambitious, from the high - tension thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock to modern classics from Christopher Nolan, Nora Efron, Quentin Tarantino, and countless more.

The man with no name may have been the character that made Clint a star, but it was Harry Callahan that made him an icon; he is the personification of tough guy charisma in one of the all - time classic cop thrillers.

(One might also be reminded at times of Carol Reed's classic IRA thriller Odd Man Out.)

A slick, beautifully photographed, action - packed, international thriller with a number of wonderfully, ludicrously entertaining set pieces, a sprinkling of dry wit, myriad gorgeous women and a classic psycho - villain.

The story itself uses the parody of horror cliches to its advantage to create a plot that is classic suspense / thriller inspired alongside comedic elements that don't interrupt the plot but rather compliment it.

A smart, sharp and outragiously weird crime - thriller that «s loaded with a great sense of classic film noir style, ideas and star - power.

Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century.

By the time the note - perfect conclusion rolls around, The Killing has cemented its place as one of Kubrick's very best films and, in addition, one of the all - time classic heist thrillers.

Hitchcock classic that is unusually light - hearted and charming for the master of psycho thrillers.

Featuring Carlos Gallardo, star of Robert Rodriguez's cult - classic debut El Mariachi, Bravo is a tense action thriller about a musician struggling to stop a criminal rebellion.

Got ta love classic Hitchcock, back when thrillers weren't just canned recopies of an Alfred Hitchcock film — I'm talking to you here DISTRUBIA.

Seemingly out of their elements, Cliff and Cydney make the classic mistake of befriending the wrong people, a thriller staple, but the filmmaker never goes on automatic pilot; he composes with soft focus photography to give a sense of ambiguity at key moments whenever both couples are within the same frame.

I love American cinema from the 70's and I'm a fan of Peter Yates» classic cop thriller Bulllitt, so it was a no - brainer for me to accept an offer to review Yates» 1973 crime drama The Friends of Eddie Coyle.

«Warm Bodies» star is currently in negotiations to join Alcon Entertainment's recreation of the classic 1991 action - thriller

Venturing to Hollywood for the first time, Refn won Best Director at this year's Cannes Film Festival for Drive, a retro action thriller that evokes the minimalist force of classic Walter Hill or William Friedkin films while giving Los Angeles a distinct»80s ambience.

The producers of Liam Neeson thriller Non-Stop are developing an updated version of the classic supernatural horror film

Langley said the follow - up with will be more of a thriller than Fifty Shades which played out like a classic love story, albeit with hardcore sex at the centre.

Macdonald tries to capture the political thrills one might find in the classic paranoia thrillers of the 1970s, especially the Alan J. Pakula films All the President's Men and The Parallax View.

Critics Consensus: In Cold Blood is a classic docudrama with a fictional thriller's grip — and a pair of terrific lead performances from Robert Blake and Scott Wilson.

Critic Consensus: In Cold Blood is a classic docudrama with a fictional thriller's grip — and a pair of terrific lead performances from Robert Blake and Scott Wilson.

1 BABY DRIVER (Edgar Wright) The best movie of the year is a popcorn thriller, an art film, and a gearhead classic that grossed over $ 100 million.

Nicolas Pesce's debut feature The Eyes Of My Mother views its deeply disturbed heroine through the lens of hardy, immigrant - born midcentury stoicism, and Pesce chose a similarly controlled - yet - disturbing film for our marathon: The Night Of The Hunter, Charles Laughton's classic thriller starring Robert Mitchum as a killer who disguises himself as a preacheOf My Mother views its deeply disturbed heroine through the lens of hardy, immigrant - born midcentury stoicism, and Pesce chose a similarly controlled - yet - disturbing film for our marathon: The Night Of The Hunter, Charles Laughton's classic thriller starring Robert Mitchum as a killer who disguises himself as a preacheof hardy, immigrant - born midcentury stoicism, and Pesce chose a similarly controlled - yet - disturbing film for our marathon: The Night Of The Hunter, Charles Laughton's classic thriller starring Robert Mitchum as a killer who disguises himself as a preacheOf The Hunter, Charles Laughton's classic thriller starring Robert Mitchum as a killer who disguises himself as a preacher.

Reports out of Hollywood are that director Walter Hill has secured the funding through Lakeshore Entertainment for the remake of Robert Aldrich's classic thriller.

With deliberate echoes of classic Hammer horror, this moody and inventive thriller gets under our skin with its deeply personal plot, which pays as much attention to horror as emotion.

The filmmaker lures you in and then, like any classic thriller, hooks you until the final gasp — the low hum of a motorbike replacing John Williams» iconic notes in «Jaws.»

King and Knight are also partnered on the action - thriller «The Red Circle,» a remake of the classic French film that will be reset in Hong Kong.

Here is something most neo-noir miss: the classic noir weren't just super-stylized thrillers or sex dramas (though many were), they were psychological portraits of a nation wounded by war and horrified by the dawning Atomic Age.

Vacancy A suspenseful, classic thriller, in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock, starring Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale, that will keep you on the edge of your seat and your heart pounding!

Starring C. Thomas Howell (Red Dawn, E.T.) and Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club), this horror / thriller version of the classic Bigfoot tale «follows a group of teens that are thrust into a nightmare beyond their wildest imaginations when the creatures begin to try and mate with the girls and kill off the guys — and no one believes them, except for Zeke Jesterson (Howell) and Sheriff Jim Taylor (Holt Boggs, Hostage), whose daughter has been kidnapped by the savage beasts.

Next week we get Ruby Sparks (very good, unexpected, non-traditional romantic comedy), Killer Joe (William Friedkin's grotty NC - 17 thriller, starring Matthew McConaughey), Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (documentary about the Chinese activist, said to be very inspiring), The Graduate (45th anniversary engagement of Mike Nichols» classic), Farewell My Queen (French period drama, said to be quite good), plus the wide releases of the Total Recall (possibly only for junk food fanatics, but who knows yet), so it's a good weekend to catch up on any holdovers you might have missed.

It's an incredible thriller, a throwback to classic Hitchcock films (particularly Rear Window), and features one of the best characters ever in a Carpenter film: Lauren Hutton's amazing Leigh Michaels.

Before Ken Follett wrote epic, thousand - page bestsellers like Pillars of the Earth, he wrote sleek, taut thrillers like The Big Needles, and sci - fi classics like Capricorn One.

I had a window before I promote Green Inferno, and I wanted to make a movie like Roman Polanski or Paul Verhoeven made when they were young, a classic psychosexual thriller that's not a horror movie, but would have everyone on the edge of their seats.

His slangy eloquence, his brilliance at scene making, and his nose for the zeitgeist fostered a slew of smash movie classics, including the seminal silent gangster film Underworld (1927), which won the first Oscar for best original screen story, and its sound - film successor, Scarface (1932); the screwball satire Nothing Sacred (1937); and the seductive romantic thriller, Notorious (1946).

Recommendation: In the vein of a sci fi thriller classic (still too early to say for sure but I already feel pretty comfortable saying it), 10 Cloverfield Lane is a film for adrenaline junkies.

Alfred Hitchcock never made a more purely entertaining film than North by Northwest (Warner), a classic «wrong man» thriller with a romantic cast and a breathless series of adventures across a cross-country romp.

Roland Emmerich is directing this one, hopefully getting the political thrillers out of the way quickly before starting on the sequel to classic alien lol - athon, INDEPENDENCE DAY.

Sony Pictures Classics adds, «This is an amazing movie, a great American drama, thriller, and perfect evocation of New York in the 1940's as you have never seen on screen before.

The set features eight films all together, including two of his early British thrillers (the classic Sabotage with Sylvia Sidney and lighter and lesser Young and Innocent), his World War II drama Lifeboat and all four films made for David Selznick: the Gothic classic Rebecca (Hitchcock's only film to win an Oscar for Best Picture), the Gregory Peck films Spellbound and The Paradine Case, and the romantic masterpiece Notorious.

That's the foundation of many a classic heist or men - on - a-mission thriller and this film offers it as a kind of skewed redemption for a misfit band of former military men, most of them drummed out for conduct unbecoming (you know, petty schemes and such), many of them fallen into cons and criminal schemes and all of them adrift in the post-war culture.»

2:45 p.m. (11:45 a.m.): «The Postman Always Rings Twice» (Tay Garnett, 1946) John Garfield and Lana Turner make the screen blaze as the bloody, adulterous lovers in this hot - as - hell, cold - as - ice movie of the steamy James M. Cain classic noir sex - and - murder thriller.