Browsing: thriller

Streaming services continue to serve as incubators and homes for indie and low-budget productions that only a few years ago would have only had a limited opportunity for an audience. However, times have changed, and now we can come across little gems like Prodigy, a laser-focused psychological thriller from first time feature writing and directing […]

Unfriended: Dark Web, the latest thriller from Blumhouse Productions, is surprisingly fairly decent. It’s not because it’s a Blumhouse flick that I say that it’s surprising, because they’ve come up with a wide array of really solid films over the past 12 years, including Whiplash, Paranormal Activity, and The Purge. It’s because it’s a part of […]

Political thrillers are coming back into vogue between the success of House of Cards and watching Twitter every day, and it’s into that arena that Lionsgate is releasing Affairs of State. Affairs sees the reunion of director Eric Bross and writer Tom Cudworth, who collaborated twice before more than 20 years ago for Ten Benny […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Red Sparrow has been compared to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but that entirely undersells Sparrow. Where Tinker was droll and predictable, Sparrow actually carries along the thread of an interesting story to keep the audience engaged. Clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, one thing the film is not is in […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] When one comes across an indie film that’s billed as a small-town dramatic mystery, it’s an unfair reaction that I wind up bracing myself to face a B-rate production. Often the acting is poor, the script is worse, and it has a general vibe of being someone’s pet project. But on settling in […]

Well we’ve been waiting for this to hit ever since the micro-teaser appeared online a few days ago, but the new thriller written by Guardian of the Galaxy’s James Gunn has finally arrived. While we thought he’d been completely heads down last year working on Guardians 2, it turns out that he’d had a burst of inspiration from a dream he’d had and came up with The Belko Experiment.

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Don’t Breathe turns one thing that’s common in the horror genre on it’s head: most often films will start with a solid concept, but then they break down by the third act into a typical cat and mouse game and too often with leaps of logic to tie the ends together. Breathe decides […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Shark movies is another flavor of horror genre that I’m typically a very easy lay for. The Shallows is a very slick production and better quality than we’ve gotten over the last many years from Syfy’s collection of Sharknado films. Most often shark films are campy fun, but every so often someone takes […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Green Room is an incredibly well made Punk Rock thriller that is one of those films that the cast and trailer along give the impression it’ll be good, but by the time it’s over and the credits roll you’re leaning over to the person next to you saying, “dang that was good.” The cast […]