An okay thriller (spoilers) Sasha (Charlize Theron) is an adrenaline junkie whose husband Tommy (Eric Bana) passes away during a freak accident on one of their adventures. Five months later, she travels to her husband’s native Australia for another excursion, venturing alone in this remote park where several visitors have gone missing. What could possibly …
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Clearest Blue
A good if pragmatic adaptation (spoilers) In this film adaptation of Jordan Harper’s novel of the same name, Nate McClusky (Taron Egerton) is a recently released ex-con who’s been marked for death by Aryan Steel, a gang of meth-dealing white supremacists. Worse, the greenlight was issued not only against him but also against his family. …
Please Please Please
An entertaining enough thriller (Spoilers) Millie Calloway (Sydney Sweeney) is a young woman with a dark and troubled past. Living out of her car and desperate for a job, she accepts a position as a housemaid for the Winchester family. The wife, Nina (Amanda Seyfried), is the boss from hell. The husband, Andrew (Brandon Sklenar), …
One Way or Another
A well-made and well-acted thriller. (Massive Spoilers) Send Help is a recently released thriller directed by Sam Raimi. I rarely watch trailers anymore to avoid spoilers, and I certainly didn’t need one after reading “Sam Raimi original thriller movie.” Since I think it’s best if you go in blind, and I’m about to spoil the …
The Long Run
Both are good, but in different ways (Spoilers) The Running Man is a 1982 novel by Stephen King, written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. The book is set in 2025 and tells the tale of a dystopian America that’s steadily imploding due to a corrupt government, weaponized media, economic inequality, and pollution caused by unregulated …
The Hand That Rules The World
A good cult classic and fine remake (Spoilers) The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is a movie that came out as part of the yuppie nightmare cycle that was all the rage in the ’80s and ’90s. It was directed by Curtis Hansen and written by Amanda Silver, who would later pen several blockbusters with …
Air
A nice, but not surprising thriller (Spoilers) Violet Gates (Meghann Fahy) is a single mother who has finally started dating again after many years. Her date for the evening is the charming and hunky Henry Campbell (Brandon Sklenar). Except, on the date, Violet starts receiving air drops from a mysterious stranger with the handle “Let’s_Play,” …
Die Harder
A good movie for a happy Christmas Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) is a TSA worker at LAX who’s recently learned that his girlfriend Nora Parisi (Sofia Carson), who works as a manager at the same airport, is pregnant. Working the baggage-scanning area during a Christmas Eve shift, Ethan starts getting orders from a mysterious traveler, …
Love Hurts
Love Scars In This Great Thriller (Spoilers) Strange Darling is a new thriller about the Demon (Kyle Gallner) chasing the Lady (Willa Fitzgerald). I really shouldn’t go into further details about the plot beyond that, so instead, I’ll say that it’s a well-written film that looks gorgeous with the great performances by the two leads. …
Let’s Live for Today
The worst I can say is nitpicks (Massive Spoilers) The Last Stop in Yuma County primarily takes place at the last stop in Yuma County—surprising, I know. More specifically, the film takes place in the ’70s at a rest stop whose filling station has run out of gas, leaving travelers stranded at the diner next …
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