Sentences with phrase «turning as any thriller»

Not exact matches

About four years ago, Lionsgate announced it was planning to remake «American Psycho,» the Wall Street serial killer psychological thriller that boasted a star - making turn by Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman.

The Brazilian attacker made no mistake as he blasted his effort into the back of the net, sending the Stamford Bridge faithful and Conte delirious in what is turning out to be a thriller in west London.

Yevhen Khacheridi (Dynamo Kyiv): Jackson Martinez had stolen all the headlines when Kyiv and Porto played out a goalscoring thriller in Portugal, but it was the defenders» turn this time around as Khacheridi was impassable over the ninety minutes thereby keeping his club's qualification hopes alive.

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.

Caro, with his legendary meticulous research and his amazing attention to detail, tells this tale as a Western thriller and turns it into an absolutely compulsive page - turner.

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.

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.

In 2007, Ineson scored a highly visible turn as Harry Marber, a member of Scotland Yard's armed response unit, in the feature thriller Shoot on Sight.

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.

The Faculty (1998), a teen thriller that cast Hayek as a teacher who turns into an alien, was an exception, and Kevin Smith's Dogma (1999), which featured her as a celestial muse, was fairly successful with critics and audiences.

What makes A Simple Plan an exciting, thoughtful thriller isn't the plot twists, but the twists and turns of Hank's tortured conscience as one lie leads to bigger and deadlier deceits.

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.

At turns a tragedy, a courtroom drama and a revenge thriller, «In the Fade» is a shape - shifting quest through a terrorist tragedy, as outraged as it is compassionate.

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

Charting a turbulent relationship between a cloistered young woman and the vagabond man who turns her world upside down, Pearce's increasingly intense psychological thriller deftly overturns expectations as it dances between timeless fable, modern romance and murder mystery.

Starring opposite Gwyneth Paltrow, Northam won both critical praise and the distinction of being that year's thinking woman's luxury import.The following year, the actor played a supporting role in Steven Spielberg's Amistad and then went on to explore completely different territory with a turn as Mira Sorvino's husband in the big - budget giant cockroach thriller Mimic.

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.

This is a fantastically spun tale which starts out as a bleak expose about death for cash, which forms into a story of friendship, but delves back down into revenge, reemerges for justice and redemption, and then turns into a cat and mouse thriller for a while until unraveling into a blood - thirsty mess of explosions and bullets before finding its ending.

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.

The blackly comic vibe is both a boon and a bust, as it allows for a good deal of disbelief suspension when the storyline takes a turn to become a «rogue agent» thriller, but it also does severely undercut some of the emotional impact that could have been had when deaths begin to occur and we realize that none of these characters truly mean anything to us, despite the sympathetic build - up of many of them.

Director Arthur Penn, at his peak, turned the movie into an ironic blend of twisted love story, dark comedy, caustic social portrait and breezy romantic crime thriller, with Bonnie and Clyde as a pair of deadly innocents, caught up in the poverty of the Depression and the turbulence of the»30s gangster period.

The Brit has proven elastic with the release of three largely disparate feature films — the sci - fi action thriller Kill Command, the romantic drama Me Before You, and a period drama Genius, in which she takes on the effusive role of Zelda Fitzgerald — and appeared in two theater productions including a turn as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn and as Elena in Robert Icke's Uncle Vanya in London.

Close first hosted «SNL» on February 25, 1989 where — as seen below — she spoofed her star - making turn in the thriller «Fatal Attraction.»

Molly's Game (***) Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network) marks his directing debut with this tense crime / drama / thriller about Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a young woman who turns a job as a personal assistant to an obnoxious young boss into a proprietor role, organizing high - stakes Hollywood poker games that make her wealthy and hounded by the FBI.

When Gordon - Levitt's Snowden arrives for his first day at the CIA, whom should he run into but Nicolas Cage as a grizzled spy instructor, sending out a (false, it turns out) note that Snowden is actually a thriller - comedy.

Then the story turns into a feverish thriller, as Smith is chased by men in animal heads, like a humorous take on another dreamy drama, Donnie Darko.

Bravura filmmaking turns this revenge thriller into something unexpected, filling the screen with vivid characters and situations that continually challenge us as filmgoers.

Directed by John Erik Dowdle (As Above, So Below), No Escape is a tightly - wound, high - octane, action thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat for the duration, courtesy of of the Dwyers» close brushes with death at every turn.

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.»

Happily, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage also stands as a superb murder mystery thriller that will excite new and old fans alike, even if you already know who the killer turns out to be.

The third explosive chapter of the blockbuster franchise that redefined the spy thriller finds extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) coming out of self - imposed exile and on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora's Box.

Adapted from the novel by ex-CIA operative Jason Matthews, the near two - and - a-half-hour thriller twists and turns like a snake coiling around store bought prey, but has a hard time overcoming some serious distractions, such as plenty of thick, caricature courting Russian accents wending around the strict English language screenplay from Justin Haythe.

Maggie (PG - 13 for profanity, mature themes and disturbing images) Abigail Breslin stars as the title character in this post-apocalyptic thriller, set in the Midwest, as an ill - fated teen whose dad (Arnold Schwarzennegger) stands by her side after she's infected with the deadly virus sweeping the nation that slowly turns its victims into cannibalistic zombies.

It isn't high on special effects, but there is plenty of action in the second half of the movie, as the story takes a turn into a militaristic thriller, complete with car chases and explosions galore.

If all it took to be a great thriller were edge - of - your - seat theatrics, ARLINGTON ROAD would be a sure - classic, as the impressively taut direction by Pellington and believable performances by Bridges and Robbins turn up the potboiler of intensity.

Though he's best known for his role as New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano in HBO's The Sopranos, this crime thriller sees him playing a loan shark turned bar owner who works on the periphery of New York's organized crime scene, safeguarding the dirty money that flows through Brooklyn.

No Escape is a better than average thriller with a rare dramatic turn for Owen Wilson — who shines as the harried father struggling to save his family.

These are critical to a thriller such as this, but unfortunately each turn makes the film more ridiculous.

This is as much psychological thriller as musical drama and it turns on the increasingly toxic chemistry between two clearly damaged people, to the exclusion of pretty much anyone else in the film.

«The Edge of Seventeen» was written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig (it's her first feature), with James L. Brooks serving as its lead producer, and it's a teen movie that starts off funny ha - ha but turns into something more like a light - fingered psychological thriller.

Starring Jake McDorman as Brian Finch, a slacker musician whose life takes a remarkable turn, it began life as a novel, The Dark Fields, by Dubliner Alan Glynn before becoming a powerful big - screen thriller starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro.

This tense, often confusing spy - thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence as a Bolshoi ballerina - turned - spy, gets a lot of things right, but also a lot of things wrong.

Unfortunately, this type of movie isn't really what Michell is striving to make, as he turns up the fatalistic music and short - attention span cutting to seem like this is a riveting thriller in the mode of Se7en, which featured similar themes of envy and misguided betrayal.

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

Kill List not only qualifies as a fantastic thriller, but it truly showcases some of the best horror elements seen on screen in many years with its twists and turns, all done in unwavering slow - burn style.

Five years later, I felt as though I owed it to Wilde and her honesty to see her starring turn in A Vigilante, a compelling revenge thriller that shows emotional trauma is often more difficult to overcome than physical wounds.

Patrick Watson gets to the bottom of why a child made a seemingly suicide plunge for the «9th Life of Louis Drax» (Varese Sarabande), and in turn opens up a captivating, surreal world of musical possibilities as he enters an enchanted, subconscious realm of eerie voices and hallucinogenic samples, as coming back to reality with suspense - thriller stylism, as well as waltz - like rhythms.

At first just awkward, the situation turns eerily malevolent when additional guests — all white — arrive, as if Peele had crossed a movie like Betrayed, a 1988 thriller about going undercover in a white supremacist hate group, with The Stepford Wives, that twice - adapted tale of one small community's drastic solution to the problem of uppity women.

Amirpour's attempt to create a psychedelic modern - day spaghetti western backslides, as it ironically embodies its title: this film turns out to be the utmost «Bad Batch» of horror thrillers that try to critique today's society.

As it turns out, the cynics are right again as «Imperium» proves to be a depressingly familiar (when it isn't just depressing) thriller and the casting of Radcliffe only contributes further to its failingAs it turns out, the cynics are right again as «Imperium» proves to be a depressingly familiar (when it isn't just depressing) thriller and the casting of Radcliffe only contributes further to its failingas «Imperium» proves to be a depressingly familiar (when it isn't just depressing) thriller and the casting of Radcliffe only contributes further to its failings.