Set against a neon-lit, hyperreal New York City, Die in a Gunfight recasts Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet as a defiant romance laced with gunfire, centering on the heirs of two rival media dynasties. The Gibbons and the Rathcarts have loathed one another for decades, and their feud burns just as hot and venomous in this […]
Blood Red Sky is a German-British horror-action picture that opens with an emergency landing on a windswept RAF runway in Scotland. As base personnel secure the aircraft, a trembling child named Elias tells them the nightmare that erupted in the cabin. What follows is an unnerving mix of terrorism, vampirism, and a mother willing to
Shutter Island, released in 2010 and directed by Martin Scorsese, is a psychological thriller adapted from Dennis Lehanes 2003 novel of the same name. Leonardo DiCaprio headlines the cast as U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels, dispatched to the windswept, remote facility to look into the sudden disappearance of a female patient. What starts as a routine
Sweet Girl is a 2021 American action-thriller, marking Brian Andrew Mendozas first feature as a director. The plot follows Ray Cooper (Jason Momoa), a grieving husband and father shattered when cancer takes his wife Amanda (Adria Arjona). Her passing stings even more because a vital generic drug was yanked from shelves after shady dealings with
The Decline, released in French as Jusquau dclin, is a 2020 Canadian thriller and Netflixs debut original feature from Quebec. Directed by Patrice Lalibert, the film unfolds as a tense survival drama that begins with straightforward workshops and swiftly spirals into raw violence. Set against the stark backdrop of northern Quebec, it probes the narrow
Interceptor (2022) is a high-stakes action thriller that introduces Matthew Reilly, best known for his fast-paced novels, in his first stint behind the camera. Elsa Pataky portrays Captain J.J. Collins, a determined U.S. Army officer assigned to SBX-1, a remote sea-based missile shield, after she exposes wrongdoing by a higher-ranking brother-in-arms. The SBX-1 platform-protecting America
Overview Captain Phillips, a 2013 action-thriller directed by Paul Greengrass, tells the true story of the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking by Somali pirates. Based on Richard Phillips memoir A Captains Duty and co-written by Stephan Talty, the film features Tom Hanks as Phillips and Barkhad Abdi in his first major role as pirate leader Abduwali
Introduction Ryan Cooglers bold, cross-genre feature Sinners, which hit screens in 2025, plunges viewers into a haunted Mississippi of 1932. The picture examines identity, community, cultural theft, and real supernatural horror as two brothers, Smoke and Stack Moore, come home from mob-riddled Chicago. They intend to resurrect the familys name by opening a juke joint,
Introduction Released in 2014, Adam MacDonald’s Backcountry is a raw survival thriller rooted in the grim true story of a Canadian couple mauled by a black bear during an overnight outing. Jeff Roop and Missy Peregrym star as Alex and Jenn, city dwellers whose cheery weekend getaway soon devolves into a harrowing struggle for life.
Introduction Old, a psychological thriller that hit theaters in 2021 and was helmed by M. Night Shyamalan, pulls audiences into an unsettling, dream-like meditation on time, aging, and the bodies inevitable decline. Adapted from the French graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre-Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters, the film confronts the existential dread of swift aging on
