In a market cluttered with espionage thrillers, Unlocked promised to distinguish itself by pairing a tenacious female protagonist with a nerve-wracking plot about biological terror. Helmed by seasoned director Michael Apted and starring the resourceful Noomi Rapace, the picture is further bolstered by Michael Douglas, Orlando Bloom, Toni Collette and John Malkovich. Yet, despite that […]
Overview 97 Minutes is a tense, real-time thriller that plays out mostly on board a hijacked passenger jet. With fuel running low, the action drips with urgency as the story weighs terrorism, redemption, and hard moral choices. Directed by Timo Vuorensola and scripted by Pavan Grover, the film follows an undercover Interpol officer racing to
SiREN is a supernatural horror feature that builds on the short vignettes Amateurnight found in the V/H/S anthology. The plot centers on Jonah, a calm, soon-to-be married man whose bachelor outing spirals into terror when his groomsmen Mac, Rand, and Elliot urge him to go off-script. What begins as a typical celebration soon plunges into
🎬 Overview & Context The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil, a South Korean crime-thriller that landed in theaters in 2019, comes from director Lee Won-tae. Praised for its tight plot and morally grey players, the film follows an unlikely, desperate team-up between a worn crime boss and a rule-bending detective as they race through the
Synopsis Extraction (2020) is an action thriller with an intense focus on pace, directed by Sam Hargrave and written by Joe Russo, one of the Russo brothers known for their work on the Avengers films. Netflix produced and released the film globally on its streaming service. It features Chris Hemsworth in the role of a
Synopsis Directed by Jo Sung-Hee, Space Sweepers is a South Korean space opera released in 2021. The film is lauded for its thrilling action, stunning visual effects, and humanistic themes, creating an engaging narrative. Dubbed South Korea’s first big-budget space blockbuster, the film is set in 2092, at which point Earth is on the brink
The Karate Kid stands out as one of the most adored films enduring throughout cinematic history since its first appearance in 1984. It was directed by John G. Avildsen, who is most famous for Rocky, and written by Robert Mark Kamen. This coming-of-age martial arts drama encapsulates the themes of enduring one’s hardships, the benefits
The Accountant is a 2016 film which fuses various elements including mathematics, autism portrayal, forensic investigation, and brutal martial artistry into a single fluid piece of cinematic art. The film, which features Ben Affleck in one of his more nuanced roles, was directed by Gavin O’Connor and had its screenplay written by Bill Dubuque. It
HIT: The Second Case is a Telugu language psychological crime thriller film and a sequel to the 2020 film HIT: The First Case. Sailesh Kolanu directed and wrote this film, and the second part of the HIT Saga substantially deepens the intrigue by adding emotional layers to an already captivating mystery storytelling. Starring Adivi Sesh
Synopsis: Mayhem, helmed by director Joe Lynch and penned by screenwriter Matias Caruso, burst onto screens in 2017, a breakneck fusion of horror, slapstick comedy, and workplace critique. The film showers its audience with blood and gallows humor while prodding age-old questions about how the corporate grind strips away sympathy and inches people back toward
