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Joanna Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers under J.F.Penn and also writes non-fiction for authors.

Joanna Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers under J.F.Penn.

Joanna Penn is an Award - nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers under J.F.Penn and also writes non-fiction for authors.

I'm a USA Today bestselling author of thrillers under JF Penn and I also write bestselling non-fiction for authors.

Not exact matches

Through the thriller's first six episodes, we see the sad - sack lawyer (played expertly by John Turturro) scratching his eczema - ridden skin with chopsticks, visiting a succession of not - very - sensitive doctors, and subjecting his feet to a string of seemingly suspect remedies, including slathering them with Crisco, bathing them in Clorox, and roasting them under UV lamps.

A sharp thriller with great atmosphere, set in Northern Ireland and tied up in the ever - knotty history of «The Troubles» (which one character refers to as «the madness of Belfast»), Bad Day for the Cut delivers its cinematic goods thanks to a smart combination of wit and violence, briskly delivered over just under 100 minutes.

The horror - thriller takes place in the small village of New Bethlehem, a devout community kept under the tight reins of the town's vigilant Elders.

A thriller like this can collapse under too much scrutiny, but in the moment, it does work as a nitty - gritty game of cat and mouse, especially when Shaun does break back into the house and outsmarts the numbskulled intruders.

After a detour with the divisive pulp thriller The Paperboy, director Daniels is back on awards - friendly terrain with this drama based on the story of real - life White House butler Eugene Allen, who served under eight different presidents.

Under the Dome is the TV equivalent [of a ham sandwich], with all the fixings: a goofy, sometimes creepy, thriller from horror maestro Stephen King about a town trapped under a large invisible barUnder the Dome is the TV equivalent [of a ham sandwich], with all the fixings: a goofy, sometimes creepy, thriller from horror maestro Stephen King about a town trapped under a large invisible barunder a large invisible barrier.

A highly schizophrenic movie that clearly wants to explore the lives of university students under stress their senior year but is forced to do so within a thriller format that requires spooky moments and malevolent ghosts.

«The Walk,» Zemeckis» account of Phillippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the old World Trade Center, would seem to be the ultimate Zemeckis set piece, rivaling the awesomeness of the plane crash and island sequences of «Cast Away,» the upside - down jet maneuver in «Flight,» the intergalactic wormhole trips in «Contact,» and the small - scaled relentlessness of the suspense sequences in his under - appreciated 2000 thriller «What Lies Beneath» (which wrung tremendous excitement from the question of whether a nearly paralyzed woman could use her big toe to remove the stopper from a bathtub drain).

One day you decide to (a) read Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Huysman's Against Nature, short novels all, (b) watch Clouzot's 1953 thriller The Wages of Fear, Anger's Lucifer Rising, Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and maybe something by Eisenstein, (c) take an LSD microdot, hot - knife some hashish and down a half - bottle of absinthe, (d) draw a warm bath and then (e), having sufficiently and systematically disorganized your senses, start to write a script.

A delicious thriller that gets under the skin à la «All About Eve,» albeit with a twist: The craft here is still theater, but of the workplace rather than the stage.

Based on Joyce Carol Oates's novel Lives of the Twins (written under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith), Ozon's L'Amant double is a fantastical, steamy sex thriller that gave critics here a much - needed jolt of humor late in this festival.

I kind of like slow paced films, especial when they are psychological thrillers... that's when a movie really gets under your skin.

Crumbling under pressure to deliver, Apted — a seventy - six - year - old British filmmaker behind movies such as 007's The World is Not Enough and The Chronicles of Narnia — struggles to find a steady pace throughout and fails to boost this rather generic and by - the - numbers thriller with energy, thought and complexity.

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.

Now You See Me, a thriller that takes place in the world of stage magic, is a film that might be flying under your radar at this point.

But rather than go down the path of political thriller or straight biopic, Arash Amel's melodramatic script stumbles, ungracefully, under its unsubtle load.

The big evening hit at the Eccles was Patrick Stettner's «The Night Listener,» an eerie, Hitchcockian thriller starring Robin Williams as a gay late - night disk jockey whose publisher friend (Joe Morton) asks him to read a manuscript about a young boy (Rory Culkin) tortured by his parents and now dying of AIDS under the care of a foster mother in Wisconsin (Toni Collette).

Even with a number of «X-Men» movies under his belt, actor James McAvoy hasn't had his fill of sci - fi thrillers just yet.

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Breslin's switched easily between genres over the course of her career, but she has relatively few straight - up thrillers under her belt so The Hive represents a bit of a change of pace for her.

Your guess is about as good as ours, because the plot of the Michael Arlen Ross («Turistas «-RRB- penned thriller is being kept under wraps.

Such heady concepts get lost under what director Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3, U-571) and the screenwriting team of Ferris and Brancato (Terminator Salvation, Catwoman) really want to do with the somber Blade Runner - ish premise, and that's to make a sci fi / action / thriller.

With a remarkable eye for detail, this low - key sci - fi thriller really gets under the skin as it probes the nature of humanity while keeping us on the edge of our seats.

With a combination of practical and CGI effects and tight story that boils down to a single night of hell, this is the kind of thriller that gets under your skin and stays with you after you leave the theater.

The Guillotines has spent a bit of time on the development turn wheel and because of this, Lau, who already has an iconic crime thriller under his belt, feels like more of a hired gun.

It's a raw psychological thriller centring on two cop brothers, Joe and Chrissie Fairburn, who commit the ultimate crime and soon see their world collapse under the weight of their former Police Chief father's shadow.

Under the renewal of their deal, IMAX will be showcasing the previously announced Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and this December's In the Heart of the Sea, as well as a slew of upcoming movies like Guy Ritchie's spy thriller The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ritchie's currently filming King Arthur movie, David Yates's 2016 adventure film Tarzan, Andy Serkis» motion - capture Jungle Book: Origins, the thriller Geostorm, and more.

Props are owed to Dennis Villenue's masterfully told cartel procedural Sicario, the under - appreciated mile - high disaster epic Everest, Alex Ross Perry's gut - wrenching Queen of Earth, and Joel Edgerton's slyly insidious thriller The Gift all for taking us somewhere we never want to go again.

Under Brad Anderson's tight and precise direction, the script from Gilroy (who went on to write and direct Michael Clayton, along with the Jason Bourne films) is almost a throwback to the kind of international thriller Hollywood has forgotten how to make.

Full of straight - faced suspicion, suspense and a whole lot of grey, Scribe is a film that buckles under their weight of its American thriller inspirations.

For me, Prisoners is part an engrossing family drama and part a chintzy, lurid thriller, jammed together in a way that lacks conciseness, focus, or ability to avoid collapsing under the sheer weight of the many cheap and cheesy plot contrivances that are far too out of their element to cap off a drama that builds up so well.

Of Unknown Origin (Blu - ray) Details: 1983, Scream Factory Rated: R, violence, language The lowdown: Peter Weller stars in this thriller about a successful Wall Street executive whose New York brownstone becomes a battlefield when he finds himself under siege by a determined group of home intruders — namely some very pesky ratOf Unknown Origin (Blu - ray) Details: 1983, Scream Factory Rated: R, violence, language The lowdown: Peter Weller stars in this thriller about a successful Wall Street executive whose New York brownstone becomes a battlefield when he finds himself under siege by a determined group of home intruders — namely some very pesky ratof home intruders — namely some very pesky rats.

A much more gripping aquatic thriller, Below, snuck onto screens with little fanfare a couple of weeks ago, and it deserved far better than the under - the - radar dump release Miramax / Dimension gave it — but then the WWII setting and lack of a name star in its cast, not to mention the atmospherics - over-cheap-jolts approach adopted by David Twohy, go a long way toward explaining why this one spent considerable time on the «Max shelf.

Ostensibly both a remake of the Southern Gothic erotic thriller by Don Siegel from 1971 and also an adaptation of Thomas P. Cullinan's 1966 novel «A Painted Devil», Coppola (who also wrote the screenplay and won the Best Director Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival) smartly and slowly unravels her tale via the female gaze in a film that, if one is patient with it, slowly pulls you under its sunlit and fainéant spell.

A blackmail thriller about a persecuted director (Richard Basehart), set in the world of British studio filmmaking, and directed (under the pseudonym «Joseph Walton «-RRB-, by blacklist victim Losey.

Pictures» and Village Roadshow Pictures» sci - fi thriller «Edge of Tomorrow,» under the direction of Doug Liman («The Bourne Identity,» «Mr. & Mrs. Smith»).

Fresh from Venice Film Festival and pitched somewhere between romantic drama and erotic thriller, it stars Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson and Matthias Schoenaerts and is billed as a «dazzling, sensuous portrait of desire, jealousy and rock «n» roll under the Mediterranean sun».

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»).

With American Assassin set for release in theaters next week, we've got an exclusive preview of Oscar - winner Steven Price's (Gravity) score for the spy thriller; check it out here... AMERICAN ASSASSIN follows the rise of Mitch Rapp (Dylan O'Brien) a CIA black ops recruit under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley (Michael Keaton).

In the chilling science - fiction thriller Under The Skin, The Avengers «Scarlett Johansson plays a black widow of another kind.

«Zodiac» (2007) Savides» first collaboration with David Fincher was the wildly over-the-top «The Game,» a kind of hyper - intelligent fuck - you puzzle - box thriller about a very rich man put through his paces by a shadowy organization under the guise of an elaborate role - playing game.

We're almost as excited by Screen «s news that the busiest writer alive, Jack Thorne (one of our Screenwriters On The Rise picks this year), and director Tom Harper, who were behind the excellent, woefully under - seen «Scouting Book For Boys» a few years back, are getting back together, for a political thriller called «War Book.»

Pictures» and Village Roadshow Pictures» sci - fi thriller EDGE OF TOMORROW, under the direction of Doug Liman («The Bourne Identity,» «Mr. & Mrs. Smith»OF TOMORROW, under the direction of Doug Liman («The Bourne Identity,» «Mr. & Mrs. Smith»of Doug Liman («The Bourne Identity,» «Mr. & Mrs. Smith»)

The trailer promised an engaging thriller following an assassin under the guise of an accountant who also happens to fall on the autism spectrum.

Director Michael Zinberg showed a strong understanding of the show's occasionally overlooked spy thriller dynamic by kicking off the episode with Bobbi and Hunter under interrogation and flashing back to how they landed in this predicament.

Focus Features» upcoming thriller Thoroughbreds may seem like it's being helmed by a long - time filmmaker with plenty of features under his belt, but it's actually the debut movie for writer / director Cory Finley.