Sentences with phrase «thriller as a genre»

The Sum of All Fears is recommended primarily for fans of Tom Clancy (obviously) and those into political thrillers as a genre regardless of author.

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

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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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.

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.

Certainly, there's a subversive European flavour to Pearce's ambitious Brit - pic that keeps us guessing about its characters» motives as it slides between genres (melodrama, crime thriller, beastly chiller) with ease.

French filmmaker Luc Besson (The Family, Brick Mansions) writes and directs Lucy, a loopy, high - concept science fiction thriller that, like most Besson efforts, is actually just a dumb and goofy action genre film masquerading as a smart and insightful one.

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.

This thriller balances between the slasher genre and the psychological thriller, as we try to piece together just who the killer is, whether Alice can be stopped, and who is the next person to be killed.

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

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).

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.

[Watch the trailer for true story - inspired The Disappointments Room right HERE] Disturbia director D.J. Caruso returns to the horror genre with a haunted house film that was inspired by true events in The Disappointments Room, a psychological thriller that they are saying is in the same vein as The Shining.

As a screenwriter with limited experience, his specialty is the crime - thriller genre: Adams collaborated on Heist (2015), starring Robert De Niro, and on Extraction (2015), starring Bruce Willis.

Putting a fresh twist on familiar genre concepts, this coming - of - age thriller follows Anna (Bel Powley), an orphaned teenager who escapes her troubled upbringing at the hands of an abusive caretaker (Brad Dourif) who cements her fear of a child - eating monster known as the Wildling.

Dead pan Leslie Nielsen stars as Dick Steele, agent WD - 40, in this uneven send - up of spy thrillers and other popular genres done in the hilarious style of the Zucker / Abrams «Naked Gun» series.

Suffice to say that, although as a genre piece it's nothing new, it's still tightly and cleverly handled and unravels as a satisfying psychological thriller that's worthy of some attention.There's a strong cinematic output from our Antipodean friends at the moment, of which, Edgerton seems to be spearheading and this will no doubt convince studios to invest further in his directorial endeavours.Mark Walker

Despite devoting roughly half its running time to Ian and Sofi's relationship, I Origins is ultimately not a romance, or at least, not only a romance: As the plot advances, Cahill's film reveals new incarnations of itself in a variety of genre trappings — sci - fi parable, grisly medical drama, globe - trotting thriller, and even, in one bizarre and possibly genius scene, a Saw-esque horror flick.

The storytelling maestro, whose auteur status was championed by the French New Wave for the way he defined film as a manipulative medium, was overlooked by his industry peers because his playful, sexually menacing thrillers were seen as genre films.

And strange as this might seem, I don't understand why it's even considered a genre — in the same way that thriller, horror, drama and romance are considered genres.

But in the new thriller, «Atomic Blonde,» Charlize Theron naturally reaffirms her place as a serious contender and leading woman in the action genre.

Whereas Fallen was packaged, and ultimately delivered, as a dead serious action / thriller, I don't think White House Down marketing did enough to prep its potential audience members for the over-the-top, often times ridiculous, self - aware genre piece they would encounter.

I Saw the Devil — I put this movie off for a really long time because «revenge thriller» isn't so much my genre as «horror,» but boy, I sure am a dummy for putting the movie off for so long!

While this submarine adventure starts out as a brainy thriller with superior production design, it eventually gives in to the demands of the genre: silly plotting and corny melodrama.

Over the past 15 years, Christopher Nolan has proven himself as a master of intelligent filmmaking, generally sticking to the psychological thriller genre while mixing in action and brain - bending flourishes.

Oscar - winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald has taken on one of cinema's trickiest genres with his new thriller «Black Sea», a submarine movie starring Jude Law as a unemployed ship - builder who hires a mercenary crew to salvage...

With Le cercle rouge, his diamond - hard penultimate film, Melville mounted one of his most masterful entries in the crime - thriller genre, an elegantly stylized heist film in which a taciturn trio of thieves (Alain Delon, Yves Montand, and Gian Maria Volonté) orchestrate an intricate jewelry - store robbery, their fates hanging in the balance as a dogged police inspector (André Bourvil) closes in.

The film is the latest true - story based projected directed by Bennett Miller; part psychological drama / thriller, part sports drama, Foxcatcher reads as being a hybrid of genre tropes presents in Miller's previous biographical features, Capote and Moneyball.

Keeping the movie in the espionage thriller genre will play to the strengths of the titular Black Widow — Natasha Romanoff — as a character.

This is storytelling as symbology, traditional American genres like noir and the thriller picked apart with unsettling aplomb.

This is a Netflix original film that has been described as a modern cop thriller / drama, only with fantastical elements to give it an interesting genre element.

It had more pizzazz than anything else that seems like a Best Film of the season, it managed to be explicitly about movies without violating its trajectories as a first - rate genre film (thriller), it was rife with the best, least slavish sort of hommages, and it tapped into the moods and mannerisms of other cinéastes like Nick Ray, Hitchcock, and Hopper without for a moment ceasing to be Ein Film von Wim Wenders.

In all, A Quiet Place makes for a unique and compelling family drama, as well as a stripped down take on the thriller genre.

What they find in there is both easy to figure out (stuff is mutating), beautiful and scary and weird (stuff is mutating) and inexplicable (most of the why and a bunch of other side mysteries), explored in a mostly unsatisfactory blend of arthouse stillness and genre thriller scares, part of a burgeoning subgenre of sci - fi films that I suppose function as a counterweight to the more populist nonsense of superhero sc - fi.

It's rare to find a film that traverses the comedy, psychological thriller, romance and sci - fi genres as easily as «Eternal Sunshine».

Perhaps it was that last film that drew her to this new project, since The Invitation has elements of horror in it, though «creeper» might be a better designation for its odd take on the genre (its imdb page lists it as a «thriller»).

51) «xXx: Return of Xander Cage» Smart Rating: 34.70 Release date: Friday, January 20, 2017 Genre: Action, adventure, thriller Starring: Vin Diesel, Donnie Yen, Deepika Padukone Description: After coming out of self - imposed exile, daredevil operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) must race against time to recover a sinister weapon known as Pandora's Box, a device that controls every military satellite in the world.

One of the finest reinventions of the action / thriller time - travel genre this year is definitely EDGE OF TOMORROW and if you missed it at the cinema then have no fear, as we've got all the details of the upcoming home entertainment release — as you want this in your collection!

Beyond its description as a «modern - day noir crime thriller» set in LA, there's few details out there, but it should pique the interest of anyone who caught the writer - director's terrific 2014 genre piece.

But a third act, abruptly shaped as a revenge thriller, forgoes these human virtues for heightened genre exhilaration.

Taken as a whole, Gemini is a decent little thriller that's been spruced up by a very impressive Instagram filter; but it's all in service of a genre exercise that never quite hits its mark.

As he proved in 1999's underrated war drama / western / satire / heist / action film / comedy / political thriller / social conscience movie Three Kings, Russell is a master at defying genre.