Sentences with phrase «other crime thrillers»

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In «Passion,» on the other hand, De Palma has taken an ordinary but well - done French thriller, «Crime d'amour» by Alain Corneau, and added his typical doubts about the true meaning of things with a focus on the surface of things.

This week: Brian DePalma's Passion, based on the French thriller Love Crime, has us recalling other American remakes of foreign - language movies.

A number of other Cannes contenders were also picked up for distribution during the festival, including Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego's crime thriller «Birds of Passage,» which went to The Orchard and the Mads Mikkelsen - starring survival drama «Arctic,» which was bought early in the fest by Bleecker Street.

In other major categories, the chilling crime thriller, Nightcrawler received three awards.

Other Boston crime dramas set for release this year are Ben Affleck's Prohibition - era thriller, Live by Night, and Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, a»70s shoot»em up set in a warehouse starring Brie Larson and Armie Hammer.

When: February 26th Why: If the prospect of John Hillcoat making a contemporary crime thriller doesn't get you excited, then the outstanding cast that he's assembled (which also includes Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul and Norman Reedus, among others) certainly will.

John can currently be seen in the revisionist thriller «The Raven» as American poet Edgar Allen Poe, and has a number of other projects in the works, including the black - ops thriller «The Numbers Station,» the Spanish - language comedy «No somos animales,» the true crime thriller «The Frozen Ground,» and two new films from director Lee Daniels: «The Paperboy» and as Richard Nixon in the star - studded «The Butler.»

The ink has settled on Reeves's other project, The Invisible Woman, described as a «Hitchcock - style thriller that probes the mind of a former beauty queen who turns to a life of crime to protect her family.»

Packed with cliches, there's nothing remotely original about this East London crime thriller, which seems to be based on other similar movies rather than an original story or characters.

The odd hybrid of small town soap opera and brutal crime thriller builds slowly — maybe a little too slowly for some — but director Richard Fleischer does an impressive job of weaving the stories and character around each other visually, with characters criss - crossing through scenes and Fleischer panning his camera to across the vast canvas to pick out threads of others stories.

Here's a rewarding artistic excursion for the new year — an erotic crime thriller two ways, one onscreen, the other onstage.

Dial M for Murder premiered at the Westminster Theatre in London in 1952, only for it to be made into an expert crime mystery thriller by Alfred Hitchcock two years later, while Wait Until Dark, another complex and dark play in the vein of Hitchcock's interests directed by Arthur Penn (who would helm Bonnie and Clyde the very next year), saw the light of day in early 1966 on Broadway, where it instantly attracted the attention of both the audience and Warner Brothers, determined to turn it into a feature film starring none other than Hollywood's sweetheart Audrey Hepburn in a much darker, insidious story than her filmography had ever witnessed.

If the trailer is any indication, Black's crackling dialogue will be just one of the highlights of this crime thriller, and surely other Black - isms (humor, Christmas, kidnapping, kids in peril, etc.) will be on full display as well.

Half - heartedly acted, poorly edited and with simply nothing at all to distinguish itself from the ranks of other crime - drama thrillers revolving around technological one - upmanship, Paranoia is a kick to the stomach thinking about the wasted potential.

Adapted from the novel of the same name by crime - fiction writer Michael Connelly (this is the first of four books in the Haller series), Lawyer struggles to find its footing within a cliché storyline reworked by screenwriter John Romano (Nights in Rodanthe) and helmed by novice director Brad Furman, whose only other film is the straight - to - DVD armored - truck thriller The Take.

Breaking the Girls (Unrated) Complicated crime thriller about a couple of college coeds (Madeline Zima and Agnes Bruckner) who enter a pact to murder each other's enemies.

Other strong supporting parts include Brooks» appearance alongside Dan Aykroyd in the funny / scary prologue to 1983's Twilight Zone: The Movie; a great turn in Steven Soderbergh's Out Of Sight as a spineless white - collar criminal in the Michael Milken vein whose mansion becomes a crime scene; and a standout role as a bad guy in the upcoming Nicolas Winding Refn thriller Drive.

The thriller from Alejandro Amenábar («The Others») centers on a father accused of an unspeakable crime who unexpectedly confesses, leading to a larger horrifying mystery.

That said, while Gringo is watchable, it doesn't do enough to separate itself from other better comic - crime thrillers.

Despite it being the duos first feature film, their astute direction assures this gritty Texan crime thriller simmers with all the right tones, atmosphere, stand - out performances and beautiful artistic flourishes, to make this little indie picture stand tall amongst the other great crime thrillers of recent years, while firmly planting the Hawkins brothers as two incredibly talented, visual and character driven filmmakers.

Hey everyone, the other»90s throwback we have for Day Four in Decades is a review by Anand of Demanded Critical Reviews, which talks about the 1997 urban crime thriller L.A. Confidential.

Directed with a terrific sense of style by longtime television show director D.J. Caruso (Taking Lives, Two for the Money), this is definitely a «walk on the wild side» that should appeal to those who like comic crime dramas like Pulp Fiction, The Boondock Saints, Fight Club, and other over-the-top funny but violent thrillers of this ilk.

His fiction includes Sutherland's Rules, a crime caper / thriller with a shimmer of the fantastic; Black Easter, a supernatural suspense novel which pits love against black magic and demonic possession on a remote, idyllic Greek island; and Free Verse and Other Stories, a collection of Dario's short science fiction work (currently 99 cents on Amazon).

Jodie Renner is a freelance editor specializing in thrillers, romantic suspense, mysteries, and other crime fiction, as well as mainstream, YA and historical fiction.

But, as a crime and thriller writer myself, I found enough examples from other genres to allow me to recognise the help in creating characters this book and worksheets provide.

He has written 14 other stories in the Voidships setting: from action - adventure, through romance to dark crime thrillers.

Under a variety of pen names, L.A. Banks also wrote in several other genres including crime, thriller, and romance.

Norton's true crime expertise and research into a real kidnapping situation set her apart from most other authors of abduction thrillers, so I hoped a Q&A with Norton would help illuminate the «why» of this trend.

His fiction includes Sutherland's Rules, a crime caper / thriller with a shimmer of the fantastic; Black Easter, a supernatural suspense novel which pits love against black magic and demonic possession on a remote, idyllic Greek island; and Free Verse and Other Stories, a collection of Dario's short science fiction work.

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I've also got my agent working two series proposals for me — one in YA, the other is a crime fiction thriller.

In addition, while romance books are clearly the most popular genre today in terms of total sales, more people have read a crime / thriller book over the last year than any other genre.

The Top Suspense Group, which includes me and fellow crime writers Joel Goldman, Lee Goldberg, Bill Crider, and eight other acclaimed thriller authors, is a good example.

Both games were announced during E3 earlier this year, along with Hidden Agenda, a gritty crime thriller for the PS4 that launched this past October in the United States and will head to other parts of the world come Nov. 22.

Others include a Jennifer Aniston and Witherspoon drama, focused on a fictional version of the morning TV show world, and a thriller starring Octavia Spencer called «Are You Sleeping,» which will delve into America's love affair with true crime podcasts.