Tag: thriller
VENOM (No, Not That One) Slithers onto 4K UHD from Blue Underground
Oliver Reed, Susan George, and Klaus Kinski star in director Piers Haggard's high-concept thriller, as a deadly mamba Interrupts a kidnapping.
A DESERT Review: Chasing Ghosts, Finding Nightmares
Sarah Lind and Kai Lennox star in director Joshua Erkman's thriller.
SNEAKERS Tiptoes Onto 4K UHD, and Remains an All-Time Great Comic Caper
Plus more new 4K UHD releases!
Hong Kong Cinema Classics in 4K Coming From Shout! Studios
Shout! Studios today introduces a new entertainment label, Hong Kong Cinema Classics™, "spotlighting a treasure trove of Hong Kong's most captivating and cinematic masterpieces on digital entertainment platforms in 4K and definitive-edition physical releases (UHD™ and Blu-ray™) for collectors' home...
Now Streaming: iHOSTAGE, Unnerving Dutch Hostage Thriller
Also: 'Lazarus' and animated action, 'I, Jack Wright' and murderous money.
Friday One Sheet: THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
Something that comes up in almost every entry of this column, lately, is the omission of the credit block in movie posters. As if to single-handedly compensate for this, the BLT Communications design for the latest Wes Anderson film, The Phoenician...
SHARP CORNER Trailer: Ben Foster Loses His Mind and His Family
Happy National Canadian Film Day! To celebrate, Evolution Pictures has dropped the trailer for Sharp Corner, a Nova Scotia set film that takes a deeply psychological page out of an early 1990s style of filmmaking, which was popular in Canada...
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME Official Trailer: Benicio del Toro And Mia Threapleton Lead an All-Star Cast in New Wes Anderson Film
Tis the season for another dose of the distinctiveness that is Wes Anderson. Variety got the jump on the official trailer for Anderson's new film. The Phoenician Scheme. Benicio del Toro and Mia Threapleton take the lead on this one, and...
THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA Review: Winning Against the Whammies
Lotteries, casinos, game shows: all forms of gambling that seem to be unofficial taxes on the poor. Not that the rich don't go to casinos, of course, and perhaps they might occasionally buy a lottery ticket. But this trifecta seems...
BALLERINA Official Trailer: Ana de Armas Stakes Their Claim in The Wickiverse
Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, the film follows Eve Macarro who is beginning her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma. If you tuned in to the live streaming event...
SXSW 2025 Review: WE BURY THE DEAD, Daisy Ridley Leads This Genre Heavy Exploration of Grief
After a tragic accident leaves hundreds of thousands dead, a woman volunteers for clean up duty in an attempt to find her missing husband in Zak Hilditch’s meditative zombie thriller, We Bury the Dead. After an accidental nuclear detonation by...
SXSW 2025 Review: MERMAID, A Florida Meth-Head Finds Love in this Absurd Comedy
Doug’s life sucks. He’s broke, strung out on meth, his ex-wife hates him, he owes money to some very dangerous people, and he doesn’t really see a way out. He’s at the end of his rope when he stumbles across...
SXSW 2025 Review: ASH, Flying Lotus Delivers Gory Space Horror
Riya Ortiz wakes up in a desolate space station. Red warning lights flash, ominous automated messages call out from the station’s computer. Then the bodies. Bodies everywhere. These were friends, co-workers, maybe lovers. Now they are silent, covered in blood,...
THE RULE OF JENNY PEN Review: Lithgow And Rush Star in Impressive Horror Thriller
Judge Stefan Mortensen is a brutally impartial judge who suffers a stroke while holding court. Now confined to a rest home, he is determined to regain his mobility, functionality and leave. He is not interested in making friends while he...
THE BEEKEEPER 2: Statham to Return, NOBODY 2's Timo Tjahjanto to Direct
Cool news from Deadline this morning. Miramax is going ahead with a sequel to their hit action flick, The Beekeeper. Jason Statham will return for the titular role. What's very cool about this news is that Timo Tjahjanto (Nobody 2,...
Berlinale 2025 Review: ISLANDS, Tennis Pro Finds Himself a Murder Suspect
Dawn in a desert. A body in the sand. Is it a corpse? No, it's Tom, a tennis bum recovering from another night of debauchery. The Canary Islands resort where he gives lessons gleams in the distance. The clever opening...
Sundance 2025 Review: THE THINGS YOU KILL, A Professor, the Patriarchy, and a Psychological Breakdown
Ali (Ekin Koç), the professor-protagonist in Iranian-born, Canada-residing writer-director Alireza Khatami’s (Terrestrial Verses, Oblivion Verses) perception- and consciousness-bending film, The Things You Kill, suffers from a debilitating existential/spiritual crisis. After returning to Turkey after more than a decade in...
COMPANION Review: A Fun, Twisty Debut Techno-Thriller From Drew Hancock
Sophie Thatcher plays ingenue girlfriend to Jack Quaid’s very bad boyfriend in Drew Hancock’s Companion, a twisty thriller with plenty of surprises up its very bloody sleeves. Josh (Quaid) and his girlfriend Iris (Thatcher) are heading up to a woodsy...
ALIEN: EARTH: Check Out The New Key Art And Official Teaser For Upcoming Series
When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat in the sci-fi horror series "Alien: Earth."
Now Streaming: THE NIGHT AGENT S2, SATURDAY NIGHT, SAKAMOTO DAYS
Plus: 'SNL 50: Beyond Saturday Night' on Peacock TV, 'Babanba Banban Vampire' and 'Castlevania: Nocturne' on Netflix.