In 2000, Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel teamed up with La Haine director Mathieu Kassovitz to deliver The Crimson Rivers, a fidgety psycho thriller that
Tag: Thriller
Firestarter
To make your remake be worthy of the original, meaningful or even just worth an audience’s time, you need a spark to light the fires
The Crimson Rivers
After Thomas Harris’ Silence Of The Lambs erupted onto the scene and changed the face of serial killer thrillers forever (sorry, Manhunter), Hollywood has been
A Simple Plan
After the cartoonish sadism of his Evil Dead trilogy and the deranged superheroics of Darkman, it looked like Sam Raimi was starting to mature after
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Jan De Bont’s 1994 thriller, Speed, is one of the greatest examples of the 90’s actioner that exists despite not featuring Nicolas Cage and it
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Jack Ryan is something of an anomaly in the realms of cinematic returning characters due to the fact that Hollywood seems to be utterly incapable
The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent
Regardless of your person feelings for Hollywood’s greatest living maverick, everyone has a favorite Nicolas Cage performance be it Oscar’s worthy, an apocalyptic screech-fest or
The Sum Of All Fears
Hollywood’s current obsession with reboots, origin stories, or reboots featuring origin stories isn’t exactly new, in fact it’s proven to be the quickest (if not
Fresh
Romcoms are a something of a trial for me, so when something comes along to subvert (or even pervert) the usual tropes and cliches I
Ambulance
Anyone else get the feeling that Michael Bay was maybe getting past his prime?I realise it’s a weird question to ask when the majority of
The Hunt For Red October
Before the empathic brows of John Krasinski, the firm confidence of Chris Pine, the flustered jawline of Ben Affleck or the defiant pointing of Harrison
Three Days Of The Condor
These days, actual global politics are so far off the fucking chain that any movie that delves into the shifty workings of international espionage that
Tenebrae
Maestro or misogynist? Those are the two labels that have continously clung to Italian horror master Dario Argento ever since he first started plying his
Thinner
As I’ve no doubt mentioned before, when a filmmaker attempts to wrestle Stephen King’s books into a filmable format, there’s still always that fact that
Too Late The Hero
If you were feeling in a highly generalizing kind of mood you could argue that there’s usually only two types of Second World War movie
Jackie Brown
To paraphrase Calvin Candie from Django Unchained, with Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino had our curiosity, but with the release of Pulp Fiction in 1994, he
Clear And Present Danger
Having not been all that familiar with Tom Clancy creation and all round CIA boy-scout, Jack Ryan, I have to admit that Patriot Games had
The Batman
Weeks before I was due to delve into this latest jaunt through the seedy underbelly of Gotham City, I had to admit, I wasn’t exactly
Orca: The Killer Whale
I’ve mentioned the effect Steven Spielberg’s Jaws had on cinema more times than there are fish in the sea, but while the many also-rans and
Patriot Games
It’s actually pretty easy to forget that Harrison Ford has played played a returning character other than Indiana Jones, Han Solo and Deckard from Blade
We've Got (Back) Issues 