Sentences with phrase «writers of thrillers»

More recently, writers of thrillers and detective fiction have used time to cleverly conceal and reveal key moments in their plots, and modernist and postmodernist writers have fragmented their chronologies in innovative, unusual ways so as to reflect our absurd realities.

I have seen it alleged that some writers of thrillers (I won't name names) who have become very successful on Kindle also wrote — and have had written — negative reviews on sites of anyone they saw as rivals.

Catherine Hardwicke, who directed the first Twilight movie, will direct this adaptation of the first novel in the popular series of young adult novels by James Patterson, the writer of thrillers such as Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider.

«While best known as a writer of thrillers, Highsmith is concerned with crafting stories to evoke the human comedy.

Linwood Barclay spent twenty - seven years at Canada's largest paper, the Toronto Star, until 2004 when he published Bad Move and became a full - time writer of thrillers.

Not exact matches

The now rich and famous writer of legal thrillers, Scott Turow, wrote his first novel using only his morning commutes into New York City on the train.

With interesting project choices (along with directing Whiplash and La La Land, he also wrote thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane) and his skill as a writer and director, Chazelle is showing why he may be one of Hollywood's next great filmmakers.

I'd become a writer of crime novels and thrillers and I was more interested in books than in football.

Lord Dobbs, writer of the House of Cards political thrillers, who is piloting the bill through the lords for the Tories, told peers: «A referendum is about democracy.

One of the most stimulating books on the modern British experience comes not from the contemporary literary giants but from a thriller writer.

An award - winning US writer is planning a Hollywood thriller spun off the true and bizarre story of Ghana's World Cup cash, reports The Wrap.

Sharon Stone played the role of a writer here, and was seen wearing this knitted sweater in many scenes in this erotic thriller.

Visual effects supervisor Scott Farrar and science writer Carl Zimmer break down the herd mentality of the walking dead in director Marc Forster's thriller.

First - time writer - director Aimee Lagos» time - skipping thriller ultimately adds up to less than the sum of its parts, but good performances by the youthful cast help compensate for the overly familiar story.

Instead, writer Glenn Standring and director Toa Fraser take a different approach, providing us with a taut, detailed thriller that re-creates a significant chapter in the history of international terrorism.

Writer / director Gary Sinyor spent over a decade developing this unsettling thriller, which overcomes the odd plot blip to provide some poignant insights into the psychological consequences of grief.

Sounds like another interesting political thriller from the producer, writer, director, and star of The Ides of March 67.

«First Reformed» redeems the career of one of the cinema's great writer - directors, rescuing Paul Schrader from the wilderness of Nicolas Cage B - thrillers and the hell of begging Lindsay Lohan to show up in «The Canyons.»

Writer / director Hugo Blick skillfully walks the hairline between a well - paced adventure thriller and a psychological study that gives us enough time to appreciate the nuances of the character we're watching.

A serving of «True Blood's» Ryan Kwanten in his native accent is the chief selling point of this picturesque, contentedly imitative Australian Western / thriller / Coen - brothers homage, the feature debut of writer - director Patrick Hughes.

In his 2014 speculative thriller «Ex Machina,» writer - director Alex Garland created a haunting, stylishly atmospheric meditation on what it means to be human, building a credible world just this shy of the future in which humanoid robots moved, loved and deceived with all the nuance and subterfuge of their flesh - and - bone counterparts.

This thriller from director Matt Shakman and writer Roberto Patino follows Liam Hemsworth's Dwayne McLaren as he tries to use a bad situation to get rich quick and get out of Cut Bank, Montana with his girlfriend Cassandra (Teresa Palmer).

You Were Never Really Here This grim, artful New York crime thriller about a tormented thug - for - hire (a rivetingly contained Joaquin Phoenix) confirms writer - director Lynne Ramsay («We Need to Talk About Kevin») as one of the most exciting and exacting film stylists of her generation.

This tale of a software writer who discovers the success of his Bill Gates - like boss and menor may be based more on treachery than talent, is unfortunately degenerates from topical drama to ludicrous thriller.

The feature - debut from writer / director Christopher Mazzei, this frenetic thriller is set amidst the criminal underbelly of the drug - soaked world of raves.

Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole (a veteran of Marvel Studios» bygone in - house writers program), Black Panther combines many of the best elements of MCU films past, including: the Shakespearean royal family drama of the Thor movies, the political thriller elements of Civil War and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and even the sci - fi tech aspects of the Iron Man films.

Writer / director Luc Besson directs Scarlett Johansson in Lucy, an action - thriller that examines the possibility of what one human could truly do if she unlocked 100 percent of her brain capacity and accessed the furthest reaches of her mind.

Breaking In review: James McTeigue directs this thriller with Gabrielle Union from a screenplay from the writer of The Commuter.

When: October 18th Why: The talky financial thriller «Margin Call» did a better job of showcasing writer / director J.C. Chandor's screenwriting skills than his ability behind the camera, but for his sophomore effort, Chandor has bravely removed that variable from the equation.

A top - notch cult - movie cast — including Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits, Harry Dean Stanton — anchors this wacky, blood - spattered commentary on the psycho - killer thriller from the writer - director of In Bruges.

Before he knows it, the young man, who is African - American in a presumptively all - white part of town, instigates the storyline in writer - director Jordan Peele's satirically shrewd, sensationally effective thriller.

Ahead of its UK release next Friday (March 25th), we've got an exclusive clip from Disorder, the new thriller from writer - director Alice Winocour, which stars Matthias Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Disorder here During a lavish party at the family's luxurious «Maryland» villa in the South of -LSB-...]

Ahead of its U.S. release in August, a new trailer has arrived online for writer - director Alice Winocour's thriller Disorder (originally titled Maryland) which stars Diane Kruger and Matthias Schoenaerts; take a look below after the official synopsis... During a lavish party at the family's luxurious «Maryland» villa in the South of France, Vincent senses that something is amiss.

Yet the horrific circumstances of his chemical castration and the very real realities of his life as a gay man are sidestepped by the faux thriller set - up of the film, a device that conveniently allows a heterosexual writer like Moore (who's Oscar acceptance speech granted us insight into how his version of Turing lacks any on - screen interiority as a gay man) to touch upon the subject as a clichéd trope.

The duo lead the crime thriller from writer - director Billy Ray, based on the 2009 Argentine film of the same name.

The next big question, of course, is whether director / writer / star John Krasinski will be back (in some capacity) for the sequel to the thriller about humans dealing with a post-apocalyptic world where creatures that hunt via sound have been picking off the population.

Returning alongside writer / director / producer James DeMonaco to produce the next chapter of the thriller are Blumhouse Productions» Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity and Insidious), alongside Sébastien K. Lemercier (Assault on Precinct 13, Four Lovers) and Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay (Pain & Gain, Transformers), Brad Fuller (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th) and Andrew Form (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, The Amityville Horror, A Nightmare on Elm Street).

When the nominations for the César Awards — known in glib terms as the French Oscars — were announced last month, I wrote that I anticipated a tight race between Roman Polanski's widely acclaimed Euro thriller «The Ghost Writer» and Xavier Beauvois's lofty Cannes prizewinner «Of Gods and Men,» with the latter just winning out.

Writer and director Taylor Sheridan (writer of Hell or High Water and Sicario) delivers a tightly wound suspense thriller as intense as it is unpredicWriter and director Taylor Sheridan (writer of Hell or High Water and Sicario) delivers a tightly wound suspense thriller as intense as it is unpredicwriter of Hell or High Water and Sicario) delivers a tightly wound suspense thriller as intense as it is unpredictable.

The writer - director Zal Batmanglij and star - cowriter Brit Marling (Arbitrage), join forces again after their indie breakthrough, The Sound of My Voice, with another provocative but deeply flawed thriller that delves into the anarchist movement in the United States with The East.

We have a brand new clip for writer / director Julius Ramsay's psychological Gothic horror thriller Midnighters, which brings some violence to the screen in this Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.

A new UK poster has arrived online for writer - director Alice Winocour's upcoming thriller Disorder featuring Diane Kruger and Matthias Schoenaerts; take a look below... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Disorder During a lavish party at the family's luxurious «Maryland» villa in the South of France, Vincent senses that something is amiss.

Writer and director Alex Garland manages to take a high - concept premise — a reclusive, Steve Jobs - like genius (Oscar Isaac) invites a young employee (Domhnall Gleeson) to test the android he created (Alicia Vikander) to see if she's truly intelligent — and tuns it into a claustrophobic, tense thriller, as the three circle each other through an hour and a half of vicious psychological manipulation and constant shifts in the balance of power.

Filmmaker Ivan Sen is a quadruple threat as writer, director, composer and cinematographer of this wily Australian thriller.

That's The Wall, a twisty little thriller from director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) and writer Dwain Worrell.

Action specialist and co - writer / producer Luc Besson has fashioned another slick thriller - with a twist of sci - fi - to rank alongside this Transporter franchise; while a buff Pearce does his best in a role more suited to Jason Statham.

From writer - director Paul Schrader comes a gripping thriller about a crisis of faith that is at once personal, political, and planetary.

Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller, Ex Machina.

[Writers] Cavayé and Lemans... dump all manner of double - dealing and good cop - bad cop intrigue into what could have been a wonderfully streamlined, character - driven thriller about an innocent man forced to do the bidding of criminals to save his family.

But the survival thriller from writer / director Trey Edward Shults, set sometime after the ravages of an unnamed and unexplained plague have ripped through the cities and sent survivors into the isolation of the wilderness, isn't about monsters (human or otherwise) who hunt in the dark.