Sentences with phrase «such as thrillers»

Adrenaline genres such as thrillers, adventure, and suspense make incredibly versatile blending ingredients.

Presently the self - pubbed world is ideal for a lot of commercial fiction, particularly in genres such as thrillers, mysteries, fantasy, etc..

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Shaun Cassidy, best known for genre thrillers such as «Invasion» and «American Gothic,» wrote the pilot and executive produces.

He's so far knocked out 10 legal thriller books, which were translated into more than 20 languages and osmosed into movies such as «Presumed Innocent» and «The Burden of Proof.»

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.

As expected, these non-blockbuster appearances put her career in the doldrums, compelling her to toil for her paycheck in such indifferent films as the 1986 thriller Where are the ChildrenAs expected, these non-blockbuster appearances put her career in the doldrums, compelling her to toil for her paycheck in such indifferent films as the 1986 thriller Where are the Childrenas the 1986 thriller Where are the Children?.

These numbers appear at the beginning of Tony Scott's latest melodramatic thriller, aptly unnerving as they set up just such an event: a young man is taken from his wedding celebration.

His resumé — in this capacity — includes such films as Kafka (1991), Eisenstein (as the famous Russian director), and Jonathan Demme's political thriller remake The Manchurian Candidate (2004).

After such summertime laugh - at - death thrillers as «Con Air,» «Face / Off» and «Air Force One,» «The Peacemaker» manages to come up with a novel idea — the hero and heroine actually weep for the deaths of innocent victims.

Inspired by nocturnal thrillers such as The Warriors and John Carpenter's Escape from New York, with his»71 the dynamite first - time feature director Yann Demange gives us his take on the Troubles, a violent 30 - year struggle over the constitutional status of Northern Ireland.

Corbijn isn't making a stereotypical Hollywood thriller, with the stakes spelled out in neon and the loud fight scenes spaced every few minutes, but he doesn't seem to realize there is such a thing as being too vague, and in his efforts to make some kind of art - house / thriller hybrid, he goes too far the other direction and creates a nicely rendered film with no emotional hook.

Wasn't too sure what to expect with this being based on a children's fable yet filmed as a serious horror / thriller flick, to my pleasant surprise it was quite enjoyable and had a nice gothic almost German expressionist type feel to it that you might expect from directors such as Burton or Gilliam.

Soon turning up in such features as The Long Kiss Goodnight and Rounders, the natural beauty began to gain even more footing in her feature aspirations with her turn in the Robert DeNiro heist - thriller The Score in 2001.

First - time 31 - year - old director Koldo Serra's thriller The Backwoods (AKA El bosque de las sombras, 2006) re-charts thematic territory covered, in years prior, by such well - worn classics as Deliverance and Southern Comfort, and such B - grade horror pictures as Savage Island (2004).

The following decade found Corey appearing in such films as Sinatra (1992), Beethoven's 2nd (1993) and the action thriller Surviving the Game (1994).

A gripping thriller with themes and characters that most networks are uncomfortable portraying in their shows such as jihad, Islam and the War on Terror.

As the stakes escalate, Mark Perez's script still organically makes time for the characters» realities, like Max and Annie having trouble conceiving a child, without such story points feeling too forced, and plays on the expectations of thriller plot twists more than once.

Additionally, the arduous process of buying and selling property in New York is portrayed with such fine attention to detail, that it almost plays as a ticking clock thriller.

He proved ridiculously endearing as a grizzled, broken - down, beer - swilling little league coach with a marshmallow heart in The Bad News Bears (1976), and further expressed his comic persona in such comedies as 1993's Dennis the Menace, in which he played the cantankerous Mr. Wilson, and the romantic comedy I.Q. (1994), which cast him as Albert Einstein.Though many of his roles were of the comic variety, Matthau occasionally returned to his dramatic roots with ventures such as the crime thriller Charley Varrick (1973) and The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 (1974).

Washington also reeled in large audiences in action roles, with the top box - office draw of such thrillers as The Pelican Brief (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), and The Siege (1998) attesting to his capabilities.

Despite such ill - founded critical misgivings, Russo has continued to do strong work playing strong women: The acclaimed Get Shorty (1995) featured her as a B - movie actress, while she re-teamed with Gibson for Ron Howard's crime thriller Ransom (1996) and Lethal Weapon 4 (1998).

In a special league with other spy thrillers such as The Third Man and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, director Lawrence has fashioned a thrill - a-minute hijinks film that takes place both in the West and in Moscow (with Budapest substituting for the Russian capital).

Find new hit shows such as Ladies of Letters and enjoy even more with the crime thriller season in full swing.

Unlike series co-star Biel, Mitchell remained with the program throughout its run, and through many character changes that found Lucy marrying Kevin Kinkirk, working as an associate pastor, giving birth, and surviving both a miscarriage to twins and clinical depression.Although Mitchell branched out from television into cinematic work as early as 1996, with a turn in the fantasy - action thriller The Crow: City of Angels, and continued intermittent film appearances (such as a supporting role in 2005's slasher movie Saw II), she made no secret of her real passion: performing country music as a guitarist and vocalist.

In recent years, Andrew Stevens has both starred in and directed several low - budget thrillers, among them Terror Within 2 (1990), Night Eyes 3 (1993), and Scorned (1994), and has also directed episodes of such weekly TVers as Silk Stalkings, Swamp Thing, and Walker: Texas Ranger.

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

Such concerns become moot once the picture passes a certain point, however, as Death Wish transforms into just the sort of unapologetically ruthless and violent thriller that rarely gets made nowadays (ie its very existence is a delightful novelty)- with the movie's second half boasting a series of gleefully over-the-top instances of R - rated mayhem (including an awesomely cringeworthy torture sequence involving a scalpel and battery acid).

For a grim period in the late»80s, Nolte's career was threatened by his unrestrained drug and alcohol use, but a subsequent rehabilitation strengthened his career, paving the way for roles such as Jake McKenna in Oliver Stone's neo-noir thriller U-Turn (1997) and his Oscar - nominated turn as Sheriff Wade Whitehouse in Paul Schrader's Affliction (1997), a picture Nolte also executive produced.

Sean Harris is known for creating intense, offbeat characters in an eclectic range of films, such as Rowan Joffre's BRIGHTON ROCK, HARRY BROWN, THE RED RIDING trilogy, 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE, and the 2005, award - winning horror thriller ISOLATION, OUTLAW AND CREEP.

While infinitely lighter and more comically charged than these two thrillers, there are still some jumps here, such as a tense shot of Brooks emerging with a kitchen knife.

We told you the other that that Jason Flemyng, best known for his collaborations with Matthew Vaughn and roles in such pics as X-Men: First Class and Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, recently sank his teeth into directing with vampire thriller Eat Local.

He didn't start with an easy one either, as making such a far - fetched thriller fly requires a subtle touch and excellent characterizations, both qualities that he brings to bear without any appearance of awkwardness.

As with any such thriller that involves the thorough confusion of the audience, plot holes could be found if we looked hard enough.

One of the most versatile actors in cinema at the moment, Tom Hardy has peppered his career with blockbusters like «The Dark Knight Rises», indie dramas like «Locke» and the gritty thrillers such as «The...

This movie is bad enough for non-techies as a thriller, but if you know anything at all about computers the film is nothing less than a brutal assault of stupidity on all of your senses of such magnitude, the government should also crack down on MGM for releasing it.

While the subject matter is the stuff that good films are made of, and the quality of the direction and acting are worthy of admiration, where The East fails is in the contrivances involved in the farfetched plotline and the unevenness in the thriller elements (such as a scene in which the cell dresses up to the nines to infiltrate a party for pharmaceutical bigwigs that would feel more at home in a Mission Impossible movie) that undermine what could have been a chilling and realistic story of corporations run amok.

In 1944, Harrison became a full producer at Universal Pictures; true to her Hitchcock heritage, she was responsible for such thrillers as Phantom Lady (1944) and Uncle Harry (1945).

Such an approach renders the immense complexities informing each side's dilemmas too simplistically, as a means for a more digestible, straightforward narrative of familial betrayal and conventional thriller - level espionage.

Clute was just as active in the 1970s, jumping between theatrical thrillers such as Breakout and Executive Action and dozens of television series.

This is an old - fashioned spy thriller, and as such it succeeds.

Yet that stylistic clarity is as much a product of the film's often strained cinematic high points, such as when Mosab is told «welcome to the slaughter house» by a prison guard, a line clearly inserted to elicit a thriller - order ethos that's too easy a gesture to the ubiquitous violence of the war's innumerous military and civilian conflicts.

Director D.J. Caruso, who has helmed forgettable fare such as Taking Lives and Two for the Money, strikes all the right keys as the picture makes its transition from comedy to romance to thriller.

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.

His 1928 thriller Spies (Spione) belongs to a different tradition, one that came out of the rapid - paced adventure and crime serials of the twenties that were inspired primarily by the hugely successful (and at times surreal) pulp crime serials of Louis Feuillade in France, such as Fantomas and Les Vampires.

He has directed dramas such as George Washington, All the Real Girls, and Snow Angels, as well as the thriller Undertow, all of which he wrote or co-wrote.

She points to such «hot tickets» as Joss Whedon's «Dollhouse» (Fox), a thriller about a shadowy, mind - control agency starring Eliza Dushku, and «Nurse Jackie,» Showtime's newest series starring Edie Falco.

She has appeared in thrillers such as Shaft (2000) and Changing Lanes (2002) and independent comedy films like About a Boy (2002), In Her Shoes (2005) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006).

Bold colours, costumes, Austrian pop music (Naked Lunch mix the soundtrack), devilish performances, and candid material seek to match this film with the likes of other psycho - thrillers, such as the work of Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, Drive, Only God Forgives) and even the deftly affecting films of Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful).

Most of the ingredients are here for something special - a decent enough cast, the man behind the visuals of most of Christopher Nolan's works, and a high - concept sci - fi thriller that delves into such heady topics as «neo-ludites» and the...

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.