No Other Choice is Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of the horror novel The Ax and changes its setting and themes to modern South Korea. Yoo Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) is a manager at a paper company that gets bought by an American firm, resulting in Man-su losing his job. When Man-su is unable to find another job […]
Tag: thriller
The Housemaid Review
The Housemaid is a domestic psychological thriller based on a novel by Freida McFadden and pits a young starlet and Oscar-nominated actress against each other. Millie Calloway (Sydney Sweeney) is a young woman who served 10 years of a 15-year prison sentence. She applies for a job to be a live-in maid for a wealthy […]
Eddington Review
Eddington is Ari Aster’s fourth feature film. This time, he satires politics during the COVID pandemic. Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) is the sheriff of Eddington in New Mexico. He has political differences regarding the mayor’s, Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal), COVID policy. Joe also has personal issues with Ted due to Ted’s previous relationship with Joe’s […]
The Accountant 2 Review
After a nine-year break, the 2016 thriller The Accountant gains a sequel with many of the talent in front of and behind the camera returning. Raymond King (J.K. Simmons) is killed while investigating a missing persons case. Raymond protégé at FinCEN, Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson), investigates his death, and she calls in some outside assistance, […]
Drop Review
Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes use the worst first date imaginable as the set-up for a tight thriller. Violet Gates (Meghann Fahy) is a widowed, single mother and a survivor of domestic violence. She goes on her first date since her husband’s death, meeting Henry Campbell (Brandon Sklenar), a handsome photographer. However, when the date starts, […]
Armand Review
With her astounding performance in 2021’s The Worst Person in the World, the cinema world fell in love with Renate Reinsve. Her ability to capture the duality of early adulthood was uncanny, infusing the chaos of self-discovery with the vulnerability of knowing you’re a mess. That kind of virtuosity had cinephiles eager for her next […]
Flight Risk Review
Flight Risk is Mel Gibson’s sixth film as director and his first contemporary set film with this airborne thriller. Madolyn Harris (Michelle Dockery) is a U.S. Marshal who arrests Winston (Topher Grace), an accountant for the mob. Winston agrees to testify against a notorious mob boss in exchange for immunity. The pair must travel from […]
Charlotte (2024) Review
Charlotte is an indie British thriller that premiered at Frightfest 2024 and is now available on Amazon Prime. Roy (Dean Kilbey) is a man who lives alone in the middle of the Yorkshire Dales. He is on the sex offenders register, banned from internet access, and is spot-checked by the police. One night a young […]
Sound of Freedom Review
Sound of Freedom has become one of the most talked about films of 2023 and has been the centre of the culture war. The question is, is this attention justified? Tim Ballard (Jim Caviezel) is a Homeland Security Agent working in Calexico, California. When he arrests a paedophile, it leads the agent to stop a young […]
Hypnotic Review
Hypnotic is a mind-bending sci-thriller that cult filmmaker Robert Rodriguez had written back in 2002. Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) is an Austin Police Detective whose daughter has been kidnapped and murdered. He gets a tip off that a bank is about to be robbed. This case is stranger than Rourke expected since the perpetrator, “Dellrayne” (William Fichtner) […]










