Tag: Thriller

Another Simple Favour (2025) – Review

With A Simple Favour, Paul Feig drastically changed the course of his career after a string of energetic, female-led comedies allowed him to handbrake turn

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Sugar – Season 1, Episode 7: The Friends You Keep (2024) – Review

Apple TV+’s Sugar has carved out a unique niche in the streaming landscape, blending classic neo-noir detective tropes with unexpected layers of science fiction and

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Over Your Dead Body (2026) – Review

In this day and age, it seems that you can make a comedy about anything, even when playing with the most unfunny of circumstances. Take

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Copycat (1995) – Review

While we as a society have always been morbidly fascinated with the concept of serial killers (I once had a friend who had a pet

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Sugar – Season 1, Episode 6: Go Home (2024) – Review

Sugar has been a stylish, slow-burn mystery from the start, blending classic private-eye vibes with modern Hollywood intrigue. But episode 6, Go Home, stands apart

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Cape Fear – Season 1, Episode 3: Phantom Sensations (2026) – Review

Cape Fear continues to deliver a masterclass in slow-burn psychological tension on. The third episode deepens the unease within the Bowden family while expanding the

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Sugar – Season 1, Episode 5: Boy In The Corner (2024) – Review

Apple TV+’s Sugar continues to weave its neo-noir way through Hollywood in episode 5 as the focus shifts toward the complicated dynamics inside the Siegel

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The Untouchables (1987) – Review

After starting the 80s by making a string of pumped up, psycho-sexual thrillers that tried to out Giallo Dario Argento and out Hitchcock Hitchcock, Brian

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Catch Me If You Can (2002) – Review

Considering that Spielberg had always been a director that’s quick on his creative feet and able to get us to believe anything (UFOs! Dinosaurs! Liam

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Cape Fear – Season 1, Episode 2: Why Would I Want to Hurt You? (2026) – Review

Apple TV+’s new take on Cape Fear continues to build its unsettling atmosphere in the second episode. Following the shocking events of the premiere, the

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Sugar – Season 1, Episode 4: Starry-Eyed (2024) – Review

At the halfway point of the season, the show continues to deliver its slow drip of revelations about the Siegel family while dropping more subtle

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French Connection II (1975) – Review

In 1971, William Friedkin made The French Connection, a savage thriller that delivered an unapologetically squalid look at New York police work courtesy of heavy

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Touch Of Evil (1958) – Review

Sometimes people do their best work when their back is against the wall. When hired to appear in sleazy tex-mex noir, Touch Of Evil, former

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Cape Fear – Season 1, Episode 1: Fingers & Toes (2026) – Review

Apple TV’s Cape Fear is the third adaptation of John D. MacDonald’s classic 1957 novel The Executioners. This new series draws from the book as

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Ocean’s Eight (2018) – Review

It seemed that the antisocial – but still relentlessly cool – antics of Danny Ocean’s gradually expanding gang of thieves was long since over after

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Sugar – Season 1, Episode 3: Shibuya Crossing (2024) – Review

Colin Farrell continues to excel as the charming yet enigmatic private investigator John Sugar as the latest episode blends classic noir vibes with modern storytelling,

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Sugar – Season 1, Episode 2: These People, These Places (2024) – Review

Colin Farrell continues to shine as the quietly compelling private investigator John Sugar as episode 2 delivers another stylish and engaging chapter in this neo-noir

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Cape Fear (1962) – Review

Sometimes, watching a film and its remake ass-backwards can be a shocking mistake to make. Watch the redux first – even one as top drawer

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Hollow Man 2 (2006) – Review

While Paul Verhoven has made some of the most distinctive sci-fi movies of the 80s, 90s and 2000s, the random string of sequels and remakes

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Non-Stop (2014) – Review

While Taken certainly has the bragging rights for making Liam Neeson a late-career action star, you really can’t under-sell the efforts of director Jaume Collet-Serra

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