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, […]
Tag: thriller
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) […]
How to Blow Up a Pipeline Review
The world is currently in eco-conscious times and more people are voicing and protesting about these issues. How to Blow Up a Pipeline explores the idea of people taking extreme action to save the environment. A group of disenfranchised young people brought together by Xochiti (Ariela Barer), a college student and activist. They arrive in West Texas […]
Missing Review
Missing is a standalone sequel to the screen time thriller Searching. June Allen (Storm Reid) is an 18-year-old girl with an overly protective mother, Grace (Nia Long). When Grace goes on a trip to Columbia with her boyfriend, Kevin (Ken Leung), June gets a week of freedom. However, Grace and Kevin don’t return, June is forced to […]
The Menu Review
The Menu is the second meal theme film to be released this year in the UK. The first was the Welsh film The Feast. Both films have their own take on the class divide. Hawthorne is an exclusive restaurant on an island. The chef is the celebrated Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) and his meals always have […]