Sentences with phrase «of the thriller genre»

A smart subversion of the thriller genre.

Sitaru effortlessly balances the demands of the thriller genre with careful characterizations and a sympathetic, never - judgmental look at poverty and crime.

The presence of Penn, who has purposefully avoided making big - budget Hollywood films, is a testament to Pollack's reputation and power; and rarely has this supremely gifted performer been more effective, despite the inherent limitations of the thriller genre.

This may not be surprising considering the norms of the thriller genre, unfortunately it leaves the film feeling more like a Sunday tea - time melodrama, than the fascinating character thriller it could have been.

Very loosely based on Robert Ludlum's novel of the same name, indie punk Doug Liman (director of Swingers) has constructed a parable of self - discovery that can as easily be read as a subversion of the conventions of the thriller genre, a discussion of the ways in which the audience participates in the process of genre fiction, or as a science - fiction piece in which strangely robotic über menschen run amuck in a technocratic world metropolis.

But in no time it becomes apparent that the rules are different in writer - director J Blakeson's twisty feature debut — and that's what fans of the thriller genre want.

One film that has poked through this listless drought is Match Point, a flick that saw Allen test the waters of the thriller genre, and most importantly, play homage to the godfather of suspense himself.

Taylor may just be unfamiliar with the mechanics of the thriller genre, having directed the U.S. Civil Rights drama The Help (2011) and the James Brown biopic Get on Up (2014).

If you are a fan of the thriller genre, my books will be like dessert, fast and delicious.

In the hope that I might learn something about literary productivity from a true master of the thriller genre, I approached this man, who has become a legend in the self - publishing field.

CJ describes her novels as «thrillers with heart», as they focus on people and relationships, not just the crime, technology, and conspiracy that are the staple of the thriller genre.

Not exact matches

Like many books in this genre, Moore's thrillers are almost devoid of humor, but in compensation they are richly supplied with irony.

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.

But Game Control indulges neither the props of the techno - thriller not the emotional exploitation of the genre suspense yarn.

Film genres included «horror» such as The Exorcism of Emily Rose and What Lies Beneath, and thrillers, such as Pulp Fiction, The Departed, and Black Swan.

21 % of men picked erotic fiction as the ultimate turn - on, putting it far ahead of the next most popular genres — thrillers, at 12 per cent and biographies, at 11 per cent.

19 per cent of women picked thrillers as the sexiest genre a man can read.

The way to a woman's heart lies instead behind a veil of mystery: 19 per cent of women picked thrillers as the sexiest genre a man can read (James Patterson and Ngaio Marsh, take a bow!).

Instead they prefer men of mystery, with 19 % picking thrillers as the sexiest genre a man can read, so any men palming through one of Benjamin Black's crime fiction novels (real name John Banville, he uses Black as a pseudonym - it just adds to his mystery!)

The way to a woman's heart lies instead behind a veil of mystery: 19 per cent of women picked thrillers as the sexiest genre a man can read (James Patterson and Louise Penny, take a bow!).

21 % of men picked erotic fiction as the ultimate turn - on, putting it far ahead of the next most popular genres — thrillers, at 12 % and biographies, at 11 per cent.

The way to a woman's heart lies instead behind a veil of mystery: 19 % of women picked thrillers as the sexiest genre a man can read (James Patterson and Lee Child, take a bow!).

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Search Best of History Websites... Search Tom Clancy, whose complex, adrenaline - fueled military novels spawned a new genre of thrillers and made him one of the world's best - known and

A buddy - cop thriller recast as Dante's sojourn in Hell, this graphic, allusion - littered film stands the conventions of the genre on end — along with the viewer's hair.

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).

Hard to root for but mesmerising to watch, Sloane is expertly portrayed by Chastain in this dialogue - heavy lobbyist thriller that should please fans of both actor and genre.

The music is superb, the Simon Boswell piano theme is well suited and also suits for the horror genre, I don't really find this as a standard black comedy thriller, it is something like it is ripped off from Coen Brother's Blood Simple, with more of less funny dialogue but I find this a perfect thriller and quite known for its time and still is today because of Channel 4 which is now a popular channel with many sub-channels.

While Affleck embraces thriller tropes in the third act, he manages an impressive display of genre - balancing during the first two - thirds.

An excellent blend of comedy and thriller The Cabin in the Woods has redefined the horror film genre.

This apocalyptic horror thriller is a movie that will appeal less to fans of the genre than to technophobic grumps who reckon mobile phones turn people into mindless zombies.

[The clichés of the counterterrorism action - thriller genre] cohere into something with enough surface plausibility to be more entertaining than insulting.

An effective genre film that leaves an unmistakably good impression, which is something most of Hollywood's supernatural thrillers usually fail to do.

«Red Sparrow» has the nudity and sex of an erotic thriller and the stomach - churning gore of a slasher flick, but it also strives to be more than a genre movie.

Directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear), Fallen is a blend of the police drama and supernatural thriller genres.

Continues the excellent genre of thriller / history lesson that I've come to appreciate in this modernized trilogy.

A thriller that tries aggressively, but not entirely successfully, to deliver the goods of three genres — suspense, supernatural and horror.

This Northern Ireland - set thriller doesn't quite rank with the most memorable of that ilk, but it has sufficient genre appeal to attract some sales and attention around the globe.

REC 4 won't win any points for being scary or terribly original, as this is more of an action thriller than horror, but it is mostly successful due to the fact that it drops the slapstick comedy of REC 3 and goes for a more serious tone, and the setting make this stand out in the zombie genre.

As twisty thrillers of the genre go, this one is more than passable.

Back again this time with Hell or High Water, Mackenzie continues to display an ability to take tired genres and reinvigorate them with a nuance that has been sorely lacking from a lot of male - driven thrillers in recent years.

The thriller, which screened at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival and at SXSW last week, centers on a familiar genre storyline: a hero tries to protect a young child with amazing powers (usually messiah like in some way) from all sorts of conspiratorial forces (secret organizations, government agencies, etc.) that mean to use him or her for their own nefarious intentions.

Both films are post-apocalyptic sci - fi thrillers where the the population of Earth is threatened into nonexistence in a short amount of time, while the survivors do what they can in order to keep from suffering the same fate at the hands of those who have gone rabidly insane — the zombies here aren't the slow, lumbering ones we generally associate with the genre either.

The filmmakers — Ron Shelton directing a David Ayer script based on a James Ellroy story — obviously want us to swallow a bitter pill, but traditionally Hollywood genres, even the LA cop thriller, are sweet and don't have much of an aftertaste.

Akira's popularity obscures the finest examples of the medium, films that manage to balance serious metaphysical musing with actual forward momentum (the two Ghost in the Shell films, for instance); to tell adult tales in affecting ways (Grave of the Fireflies); to redefine genre thriller (Perfect Blue), action (Ninja Scroll), and fantasy (Princess Mononoke); and to present children's fables as artifacts that are as useful for adults as they are for kids (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro).

After I realized how this movie massages nuanced social commentary (about fetishization of the african american body, caucasian self - image, etc.) into a film «genre» that does not neatly fit into any particular category (it's neither thriller, nor horror, nor comedy, but a taste of all three), I was absolutely impressed.

French director Pierre Morel more or less started the «aging action star» trend with Taken, and now he's giving Sean Penn the «Neeson» treatment with The Gunman, an international action thriller that unfortunately won't be Penn's springboard into genre superstardom because frankly, the movie's sort of a bummer.

Stephen King is the author of a lot of books in the genre of thriller and horror.

Ethan Hawke continues to prove that no genre is without its merits and no story too daunting as he takes on roles as wildly different as the thrillers of Sinister and The Purge to the dramatic romance of Before Midnight.

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