Articles Tagged “thriller”
Trailer for Source Code
The long-awaited sophomore debut from director Duncan Jones (of the quietly awesome Moon), Source Code, has finally stepped into the light. On the surface, the Spring-2011 film seems an intriguing cerebral trip and a fittingly unique story for Jones to helm. Just as long as it doesn’t get sappy, devolving into lead, Jake Gyllenhaal, falling [...]
Salt
There is a type of book that only seems appropriate to buy in airports. Typically it’s filled with action scenes, very little character development, writing simple enough that you can skim it, and it has to be something you can leave in the seatback at the end of the flight. Also, often about 50 pages [...]
Monsters Teaser Trailer
I missed out catching Monsters earlier this year at SXSW 2010 and damn if I’m not kicking myself now. The indie creature flick comes out in October, but there’s been little coverage of it for the most part. While the style and themes aren’t exactly ground-breaking, this looks like a solid, taught little thriller.
The Debt Trailer
Popscorn fave, Sam Worthington, stars in a new thriller, The Debt, out this December. The film surrounds three Israeli Moussad agents from the ’60s, and smacks just a touch of 2005′s Munich. (Ciarán Hinds actually stars in both films, though he’s not so believable as the older version of Worthington’s character.) Judging from the first trailer, The Debt seems a pretty taught story with a great cast, but otherwise feels run-of-the-mill.
Buried Poster
Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds, looks to be one of the more anticipated films of the fall. Lionsgate gobbled it up shortly after the film’s premiere at Sundance, and seemingly for good reason. The trailer, which we’ve included here as well (since we were remiss in featuring it earlier), is quiet and creepy in the most uncomfortable of ways. Today, thanks to our friends at FirstShowing.net, we have the first teaser poster for the film, and damn is it well-done.
The Eclipse
Is The Eclipse a ghost story? Not completely. Will it haunt you? Absolutely.
Whiteout
Whiteout is a term commonly used to refer to a type of weather condition that severely impairs one’s visibility of the environment around them — say, a blizzard. Director Dominic Sena uses this force of nature to push around the characters in his new film, Whiteout, yet he comes across as the only one who has lost the ability to see. Why the studio didn’t put this film out in the cold to wander off and die is a mystery. What is clear is that Whiteout is a perfect storm of bad acting, bad direction and even worse writing. Sena and his cast are probably wishing for another kind of whiteout right about now — the kind that will remove this film from their resume.
Win Tickets to a Screening of Whiteout!
Win Tickets to a Special Screening: Sep 9, 730PM No, the film Whiteout isn’t about a menacing bottle of the liquid paper you used to sniff in high-school. Although, Kate Beckinsale‘s character does stand the chance of being erased if she’s not careful. Ha! Get it? Moving on. If you live in the Washington, DC [...]
