Sentences with phrase «of thrillers like»

But also, the thriller in itself is unique because it's a mixture of the American dynamic, like The Firm, and the French aesthetic of thrillers like Le Cercle rouge.

The film self - consciously invokes memories of thrillers like Cape Fear and The Desperate Hours, but has none of their guile

The film, sadistic and nonsensical by turns, self - consciously invokes memories of thrillers like Cape Fear and The Desperate Hours, but has none of their guile.

It's in the mould of thrillers like Misery and The Fan, where a symbiotic relationship begins between a media personality and an obsessive stalker, though any veers towards violence as a means of conflict resolution in A Patch of Fog come only after a considerably lengthy bout of mind games first.

One wouldn't think of a thriller like Se7en as being the kind of work that would sustain repeated viewings well, but due to the film's many nuances, it remains a deeply involving work.

Not exact matches

Sounds a bit like the sci - fi thriller In Time (lLOL), but in order for on - demand companies to move past the «Uber of...» era, a huge market opportunity will consist of consumers looking for DIFM options.

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.

The 2017 Stanley Cup Final did not have a Game 7 like some of the other big series recently, but it was still a thriller.

Consider that, two decades ago, sexy thrillers like Basic Instinct and 9-1/2 Weeks were considered the height of risque popular erotic fare; today, they would hardly raise an eyebrow.

Like all of his books after Black Robe (his only attempt at historical fiction), it takes the form of a thriller, with a seductively relentless pace reminiscent of Simenon at his best.

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

The way many of us view the death of Jesus on the cross is like some poorly scripted «Good Cop, Bad Cop» scene from a crime thriller movie, except now it is «Good God, Bad God.»

Indeed, in places it reads like a thriller; and a thriller it is, imparting the thrill of embracing the faith wholeheartedly and wanting to spread it to all our friends and neighbours.

Or again, is the chance to see the story of Christ's Passion as Mel Gibson reimagined it — blood - drenched and harrowing and brilliant — worth giving the same R - rated carte blanche to Quentin Tarantino, or worse, the makers of torture - porn thrillers like Hostel and The Hills Have Eyes?

In what must have felt like a scene straight out of a Hollywood thriller, Guest Service Associate Justin LeVaughn and Guest Service Coordinator Shane Venhorst had a hand in nabbing credit card fraud suspects at the Loews Royal Pacific Resort earlier this month.

No, there are not enough pretty pictures to keep you strapped to your seat, unless you're type that reads coffee table books like thrillers, but you are liable to see something incredible if you are willing to invest the time — impossibly old structures standing impossibly, vistas off cliffs just over the side of roads serving as makeshift cycling track with no guardrails.

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.

Moving at a thriller - like pace, the book recounts the decisions he helps his patients to make and the operations he then undertakes — in both cases, often quite literally a matter of life and death.

The Coens are rare beasts in today's Hollywood, as capable of turning their hands to thrillers like No Country For Old Men but equally at home with comedies like this one.

Asking that kind of question is like asking, «Could you do a love story with more of a thriller element, like The Bourne Identity?»

Memory loss has been a stock movie plot device since the release of 1940s melodramas like Random Harvest, but lately it seems to be everywhere: in mysteries (Memento), in thrillers (Paycheck), and even in comedies (50 First Dates).

How the marine protected area (MPA) in the British Indian Ocean Territory came about reads like the makings of a thriller, as described by Fred Pearce (27 September, p 26).

It reads like a thriller, starting with the mystery of the African children with swollen faces — caused by Burkitt's lymphoma — and the controversial idea that a virus might be behind it.

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.

It was like something out of a Tom Clancy thriller.

Washington, DC — The paradox of the missing xenon might sound like the title of the latest airport thriller, but it's actually a problem that's stumped geophysicists for decades.

The paradox of the missing xenon might sound like the title of the latest airport thriller, but it's actually a problem that's stumped geophysicists for decades.

I would like to learn how to do a lot of things, like how to play tennis properly, program, build a house, start a company, or write a best - selling spy thriller.

You know just like these thriller movies where you are always wondering what will be the next move of the character.

I also like to just stay in and watch movie, I like all kinds of movies (thriller, adventure, action, comedy) and music (rnb, Zou..

It basically starts out like Fifty Shades of Grey, but morphs into one of those 90's erotic thrillers where one character becomes obsessed with someone else and starts dismantling their lives.

Rooney Mara glistens like an icicle in the new American adaptation of Stieg Larsson's pulp thriller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

«The Shape of Things» marks the last good film LaBute has made (for whatever reason he moves on to goofy Hollywood thrillers like «The Wicker Man» and «Lakeview Terrace» and the embarrassing «Death at a Funeral» remake - one would think those films were from a totally different human all together; my bet is he became a drug addict because no one looses such talent so quickly) but this wonderful, tricky and rewarding series of films is well worth your serious time and attention.

As the audience follows the slow - moving battle, punctuated by threats, confrontations and shifting alliances, the Russian - born director sets a deathtrap that snaps in a breathtaking conclusion that plays like slow motion — not the thriller type; even better: a prolonged, torturous finish which is the logical culmination of an explicitly accepted philosophy.

«World War Z» isn't your typical zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.

There's no denying that when George Clooney wants to be an «artist,» he's more than capable of making some lovely art films, and that's clearly the case here, but there's no valid reason why he should spend his money producing a painstakingly slow travelogue set in the Italian countryside like this and allow it to be disguised as some sort of «thriller.»

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.

Note to viewers tired of being psychologically hammered by (even well made) exploitative thrillers that ask one to accept superstition as reality: Just remember the sarcastic Bill Murray in Ghostbusters, reacting to uncanny evidence of demonic forces afoot in the public library: «No human being would stack books like that!»

The trailer makes it look like an edge of your seat thriller it is not.

It's not hard to remember that he once made thrillers like Three Days of the Condor (1974), but lately his brand of filmmaking has been closer to lightweights like Presumed Innocent (which he produced) and The Firm.

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.

That may sound like a bummer for people expecting a sleek and impersonal autumn thriller, but Johnson has crafted a large enough film to house all of those elements together comfortably.

There's a lot to like in the down - to - earth setup of this thriller, starring Owen Wilson as Jack Dwyer, an everyman dad caught up in a coup in an unnamed Asian country the morning after arriving there with his family.

Glazer has made a ferociously original thriller that feels like a stealth gender study, starring a moonlighting Hollywood celebrity as both object and source of a voyeuristic gaze.

If you like horror / thrillers with plenty of cartoonish blood and gore, this will hit the spot.

Sounds like another interesting political thriller from the producer, writer, director, and star of The Ides of March 67.

I didn't like the film, and felt it was very mediocre, and this is the perfect example of how a movie that uses old clichéd ideas to create a «new» thriller can turn out, it turns bad.

It feels like there's so much more to this story that's missing, either from the interview subjects» reticence to share too much or the filmmakers reluctance to embrace more of the Cold War paranoia thriller trappings the story can veer into.

The biggest appeal in this glossy cop thriller is seeing Denzel playing totally against his usual holier than holy type and if he'd taken more of these parts, I'd like him a whole lot more.

The Movie: The idea of George Clooney playing a (mostly) silent assassin holed up in the Italian countryside with gorgeous European women sounds like recipe for a solid dramatic experience, so why Focus Features is marketing «The American» as some sort of action thriller when in fact it's an arty European film, will throw some moviegoers off and just outright anger others.