I’m of the admittedly mistaken belief that thanks to the God-tier quality of his 1995 crime epic Heat, everything Michael Mann has produced since has
Tag: Thriller
M3GAN
Back in 1988, a cinematic serial killer used the voodoo Demballa chant to level up after catching a fatal bullet after a foot chase that
Pain & Gain
After nearly burning himself out on three gargantuan Transformers movies in a row, it’s telling that Michael Bay’s idea of a smaller, intimate movie is
Death Sentence
After making his seismic impact on the horror genre with 2004’s Saw, there was the nagging suspicion that fledgling frightmaker James Wan had absolutely no
Shooter
Never was the Mark Wahlberg rule more fully in effect than in Shooter, Antoine Fuqua’s muscular 2007 snipe-fest. What exactly was the Mark Wahlberg rule,
Von Ryan’s Express
During its heyday, the World War II set mission movie enjoyed many an all star cast as the war was won seemingly on every conceivable
The Eagle Has Landed
World War II men on a mission movies: we all know them and we all love them (the good ones, anyway) but sometimes, aside from
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The only thing that was surprising about insanely influential screenwriter Shane Black making the long overdue jump to directing was that it took so bloody
Someone’s Watching Me!
Usually, digging up an old TV movie made by an established director is usually the act of a completist fan who wishes to finish off
The Infernal Machine
If your thriller features more twists and turns than a truck full of Fusilli barreling down a winding country road in the dead of night,
The Menu
For some of us, food isn’t just something you just shovel into your pie hole in order to fuel us as we gradually transform it
Bones And All
There’s a long, storied, tradition of loved-up couples engaging on winding, rambling road trips while regularly stepping outside of the law in order to survive
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Emerging from the seemingly never ending critical chaos after the release of The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson recovered with style by turning around and casually
Nomads
We all have to start somewhere, I suppose, even if the starting point doesn’t really reflect your successes. Take John McTiernen for example, the man
Red Eye
After a career boost he enjoyed thanks to a trilogy featuring a certain ghost faced, pop culture obsessed slasher, Wes Craven’s career seemed to be
A History Of Violence
It may be a slightly immature take, but I’ve always gravitated more towards David Cronenberg’s earlier, genre work than his later, more… well, not conventional
The Ward
It had been about ten years since John Carpenter last directed a feature and his self-imposed retirement had been born of him finally losing his
Hands Of The Ripper
Hammer Films was chiefly renowned for their revolutionary contributions to the horror genre, but when they weren’t slapping a new coat of paint on such
Executive Decision
Some films just age weird.Some simply have some social norms and behaviours that have regrettably aged like milk while others find that their plots end
Secret Window
“Write what you know” has always been a major piece of advice when it comes to would-be authors and it’s obviously one that’s of prime
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