Sentences with phrase «type of thriller»

Holland tries to make a completely new type of thriller and point out every possible social problem whilst at it.

So I wasn't expecting its story of a young Australian women visiting Berlin to develop into the very particular type of thriller that it did.

To everyday people, court cases are portrayed on TV and movies like some type of thriller mysteries with lawyers being quick thinking, well dressed detectives.

Part of that was just being an homage to that type of thriller.»

Luc Besson's 1991 «La Femme Nikita» remains the best of these types of thrillers and offers rousing action sequences, as well as a compelling journey, for its female protagonist.

THE FROZEN GROUND is constructed from true events and these type of thrillers can occasionally slip away into the dramatised side of reality.

I use the vigilante concept to distinguish my book from other types of thrillers.

Not exact matches

No, there are not enough pretty pictures to keep you strapped to your seat, unless you're type that reads coffee table books like thrillers, but you are liable to see something incredible if you are willing to invest the time — impossibly old structures standing impossibly, vistas off cliffs just over the side of roads serving as makeshift cycling track with no guardrails.

As the audience follows the slow - moving battle, punctuated by threats, confrontations and shifting alliances, the Russian - born director sets a deathtrap that snaps in a breathtaking conclusion that plays like slow motion — not the thriller type; even better: a prolonged, torturous finish which is the logical culmination of an explicitly accepted philosophy.

A mild box office performer, the sheer power of the picture was lost to catty industry gossip, with media types reporting more on the studio itself than the nifty thriller they produced for their debut.

The biggest appeal in this glossy cop thriller is seeing Denzel playing totally against his usual holier than holy type and if he'd taken more of these parts, I'd like him a whole lot more.

Hitchcock would be proud of this trainbound suspense thriller with Woody Harrelson playing against type.

Not likely to appeal to a wide range audience (this is not a film dependent on special effects or action sequences), the international thriller is the type of science fiction film we don't see often enough.

With both actors performing against type — Jonah Hill in particular is known for melodramatic roles in «The Wolf of Wall Street,» about a financial tycoon, and «Moneyball,» about the use of technology in baseball — «True Story» is a gripping, fascinating film, a psychological thriller without the melodrama we associate with highly commercial works.

[notification type =» star»] 98/100 — Drive is a masterpiece of vividly realized contradictions — a brilliantly stylized character study, a brutally violent love story, a slow - burning noir thriller of bright, neon - lit beauty.

Lesley Coffin: Because people go into a film expecting one thing from Michael Shannon and he proves not to be like that here and the film has an undercurrent of suspense and thriller, is that type of casting against type an asset you were looking to exploit?

Dead Calm is worth seeking out for two types of people: Nicole Kidman (Days of Thunder, Malice) fans interested in some of her early pre-Hollywood work and thriller fans bored with the current crop of routine thrillers.

The book is listed as a thriller and I can see this working since Affleck used a lot of thriller type elements in his directorial debut Gone Baby Gone a couple years ago and I loved that movie.

Screenwriter Tony Gilroy (The Bourne Legacy, Michael Clayton) certainly has success with these types of governmental espionage thrillers.

Perry is only one of a handful of familiar faces who play against type in the dark thriller.

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.

He scored a string of intimate dramas, westerns and family movies beforehand, and this was really one of the first times he had a pretty straight action thriller to score - the type Jerry Goldsmith does before breakfast.

The film has a surprisingly fresh take on this type of covert ops government - led action thriller.

To understand Dario Argento, there are two types of films you need to know about: his kaleidoscopic graphic novel - style horror, and his Hitchcock thriller pastiches.

While the latter is ratcheted up, to the Guards» credit, their film not more of a supernatural horror film but a psychological thriller along the lines of the original, and it almost works as its own thing, mostly thanks to Banks (obviously relishing the chance to play against type) and the talented young lead actresses.

Crisp little B - thriller about a barful of New York City types held captive by a maniac.

For those who don't normally watch action thrillers, they will find Non-Stop to be a lot more enjoyable than those that see several of these types of films a year.

Affleck plays up the jokiness of the script, and while that famously light approach has worked elsewhere, it isn't quite what's needed in this type of action thriller.

Most of Mann's projects are in the action / crime / thriller genre, which usually isn't the type of thing you'd generally want to throw in slow - developing, sullen moments of moody reflections.

Both types of films come in a variety of forms or genre - hybrids: sci - fi or space, thrillers, crime - drama, war, horror, westerns, etc..

Phoenix is the type of invigorating, character - driven thriller that just gets better and better with each viewing, the final construct a powerhouse of human emotional turmoil and resurrection that's downright extraordinary.

But at the movies, it's blockbuster season, and summer 2018 is stockpiled with enough sequels, effects extravaganzas and popcorn thrillers to beat the heat, or whatever type of weather Michigan decides to throw our way.

Alongside Owen playing to type, they provide the film with its dramatic impetus, turning a standard game of IRA - infused cat and mouse into a solid slow - burn thriller.

Red Sparrow, the new film from Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence and star Jennifer Lawrence, is a convoluted spy thriller with as many twists and turns as one might expect from this type of movie - and one shocking ending.

While I thought the first movie had a bad ass concept of a night where all crime is legal, I was a bit disappointed that the movie was a simple home invasion type thriller.

With the political thriller theme comes more realistic types of action.

: There is a better than average chance that Piercing will be a highly stylized dripping with atmospherics type piece and we'll soon find out if Pesce reteamed with DP Zach Kuperstein on this psychological thriller, but we're more curious in seeing how the filmmaker appropriates the source material and possibly steers clear of Takashi Miike imprint.

Jeff Nichols» retro - tinged science fiction thriller Midnight Special looks like the type of film you don't want to know too much about before you see it — which means the tidbits we've gotten (a poster, an early trailer, one thrilling clip) are tantalizing rather than being especially revealing.

It was not to be, as Impostor is a rather old - fashioned paranoia thriller, very similar to the types of stories written during the McCarthy era, with people worried about the motivation of their fellow man and whether they were the seekers of their own people's destruction.

Twelve years he would put his own type of influential thriller on the map in The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme (The Truth About Charlie, The Agronomist) made an homage to the master of the contemporary thriller himself, Alfred Hitchcock.

Even The Perfect Guy's regressions, though, are sadly familiar; this is Sony genre subsidiary Screen Gems» second annual low - rent thriller starring talented black actors in the types of leading roles they should be getting in bigger, or at least better, movies.

Nick Thacker is an action - adventure thriller novelist, who writes the types of books he likes to read.

Nick is an action - adventure thriller novelist, who writes the types of books he likes to read.

Cookbooks, crime thrillers, general fiction, or memoirs are all highly different types of books, and need different elements to succeed.

The reason it's called «The Pulse Pounders Thriller Bundle» is I edited an anthology called «Pulse Pounders» which is all thriller stories of all different types.

Why do you think readers are so drawn to domestic thrillers that are centered on a marriage, and what do you love most about these types of stories?

Also, it's restricted to these types of books and genres: bestsellers, romance novels, mysteries and thrillers, fantasy and science fiction books.

Joanna Penn has created two definitive brands for her two types of writing: one for her fiction work (thrillers), and one for her nonfiction work.

Piers is looking for clients that write quality, literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction including thrillers, crime / mystery, politics, political and military history, gardening, cookery, romance, drama, biography / memoir, all types of contemporary and literary women's fiction, lifestyle, popular science and psychology, young adult, science fiction and fantasy.

Obviously, this post is based on just my opinion and since I write thrillers, that's what I focus on, designers who have a decent amount of thriller type covers in their portfolio.