Tag: thriller

Philadelphia Film Festival Review: Black Swan

Philadelphia Film Festival Review: Black Swan

Black Swan is a beautiful, poetic film that manages to surpass expectations through unforgettable images, an unbelievable performance, and exquisite direction, all of which that propel the film beyond its somewhat-ordinary premise.

Movie Review: Let Me In

Movie Review: Let Me In

Let Me In may star two extremely talented child actors, but it is definitely not a movie for kids. Director Matt Reeves doesn’t pull any punches in this violent remake of the acclaimed Swedish vampire film, Let the Right One In.

The Debt Trailer

The Debt Trailer

The official trailer for The Debt has debuted. Check it out after the jump: The Debt tells the story of three Mossad spies (Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington, Marton Csokas) who attempt to capture and bring to trial the Surgeon of Birkenau, a Nazi war criminal, but something goes wrong. 30 years later, the doctor resurfaces, and [...]

MFF Movie Review: Clay Liford’s ‘Earthling’

MFF Movie Review: Clay Liford’s ‘Earthling’

Earthling takes the kind of genre elements geeks drool over—otherworldly visitors, slimy parasites, genetic mutation—and folds them into a human drama that blends Cronenberg with Cassavetes.

The Green Zone Movie Review

The Green Zone Movie Review

Think of it as The Bourne Locker. Greengrass and Damon bring us The Green Zone, a frenzied, fast-paced war thriller that races through the turbulent streets of Baghdad looking for elusive WMDs.

The Crazies Movie Review

The Crazies Movie Review

Breck Eisner’s The Crazies is a movie unashamed of what it is; a zombie-centric gallery of jump-scares and gore moments. There’s the quaint little town where things start to go horribly wrong, the erstwhile sheriff who wrings his hands with each new terrible discovery, and of course, an endless number of scenes where characters wander [...]

Foreign Matter: The Chaser Movie Review

Foreign Matter: The Chaser Movie Review

A film like Hong-Jin’s The Chaser is the exception to the rule for shock-based serial killer films. Speaking as someone who actively avoids most  women-in-peril horror pics, I was relieved to find that this Korean offering manages to unhinge and electrify  its audience without resorting to loathsome or  deviant imagery. Recently William Monahan and Leonardo DiCaprio [...]

International trailer reveals more of ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’

International trailer reveals more of ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’

Last month, we got our first look at Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and the return of Gordon Gecko. Now there’s a longer, international trailer that sheds light on the film’s plot. The first trailer very effectively showed us Douglas stepping back into the world, noting the changing times (hey! giant cell phone!), and [...]

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