Tag: Thriller
REVIEW: Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
Joker: Folie à Deux is a lot of things – a psychological drama, a legal thriller, a musical, a love story, an extension of its predecessor’s indictment of society, a comic book movie – but above all, it’s endlessly fascinating, and like Joker, it keeps you wondering what will happen next....
Read MoreREVIEW: The Penguin – Episode 2, “Inside Man”
With its second episode, “Inside Man,” The Penguin hits its stride, mounting the tension as the subterfuge within the Falcone family begins. Mercifully, Colin Farrell tones down his caricaturish performance, mostly playing Oz straight, and the result is a much more immersive crime story. That b...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Penguin – Episode 1, “After Hours”
The Penguin, the HBO miniseries extension of Matt Reeves’ The Batman, is garnering a similar reaction to the film that spawned it. It’s getting near-universal acclaim, as “grounded” superhero fare always does, but is it really that good? Based on the premiere episode, “After Hours,” I do...
Read MoreREVIEW: Trap (2024)
Like most people, I find M. Night Shyamalan to be hit or miss. But honestly, that’s most directors, and I think he’s only singled out because his first big movie was so popular. Anyway, I wanted to see Trap because I’m interested in themes Shyamalan tends to revisit – psychology, mysticism, ...
Read MoreThe First Full Trailer for Joker: Folie À Deux Puts on a Happy Face
Get ready to embrace your inner psycho again because the Joker is about to be unleashed. Today, Warner Bros. released the first full trailer for Joker: Folie À Deux, the sequel to Todd Phillips’ Joker, the surprise smash hit from 2019. Joker: Folie À Deux returns us to Arthur Fleck, the mentall...
Read MorePeter Dinklage And Juliet Lewis To Star In Dark Western Film The Thicket
jesslind | Jul 23, 2024 | 0
Peter Dinklage, best known for his role as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones, is to star alongside Juliette Lewis as outlaw gang leader Cutthroat Bill in the upcoming dark Western thriller The Thicket, adapted from the novel of the same name by Joe R. Lansdale. Set in early twentieth-century Texas...
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