The labyrinth of the everyday in Kane Parsons’ disquieting Backrooms
Backrooms is a triumph in its highly individual vision and the technical prowess involved to realise the horrible maze of anxiety.…
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Spotlighting Brilliant Thrillers in 2024: JT Mollner's Strange Darling & Zoë Kravitz's Blink Twice
Two thrillers in 2024: One directed by JT Mollner (second feature), the other by Zoë Kravitz (directorial debut). One is a non-linear narrative twisting the crime thriller/slasher genre on its head wi…
Bring Him to Me Imitates the Best and the Worst of Nineties Thrillers, Mostly the Worst
This review contains slight spoilers. There’s a fair bit to admire about Luke Sparke’s work as a director. His debut monster flick Red Billabong (oddly re-released in the US as The Devil Beneath in 2…
Matthew Holmes Talks About the Tangible Tension of Thriller Film The Cost in This Interview
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Matthew Holmes The Cost Pulses With a Palpable Dread That Will Leave You Shaking
This review discusses sexual assault and torture. Matthew Holmes searing vigilante thriller The Cost asks, what do we lose when we enact violence on one other? It provides no easy answers as it opens…
A Haunting in Venice Sees Kenneth Branagh Craft a Very Different Poirot Tale: A Supernatural Thriller
Director Kenneth Branagh and screenwriter Michael Green made a canny choice in deciding to adapt one of Agatha Christie’s lesser-known works for A Haunting in Venice. Although, to call it an adaptatio…
Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott Play Dangerous Games in Sanctuary
“This is the only thing that is real,” says Rebecca (Margaret Qualley) to Hal (Christopher Abbott) in Zachary Wigon’s psychosexual thriller and melodrama, Sanctuary. There is a world outside our two p…
Restore Point is a Czech Philip K. Dick Styled Future Tech Thriller That Convinces in Its World Building and Philosophical Quandaries
Robert Hloz’s debut feature Restore Point (Bod Obnovy) which premiered at Karlovy Vary is the first science fiction film made in the Czech Republic for near forty years. Although it wears its Philip K…
When One of Us Hurts Author Monica Vuu Talks Crime and Tasmania in This Interview
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Reality Review - Tina Satter's Almost-Thriller is Daring and Dynamic Cinema with a Lead Performance that is Flawless
Reality screens at the Sydney Film Festival on June 11, 12, and 17, ahead of a national release later in 2023. “I knew it was secret. But I also knew I had pledged service to the American People.”…
First Look at Sam Neill and Barry Pepper in Luke Sparke's Bring Him to Me
PRESS RELEASE Sparke Films has released first images for the electrifying new crime-thriller, BRING HIM TO ME. Directed by Luke Sparke (Occupation, Occupation Rainfall), the first images reveal Barr…
66th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Four – Women Talking, Emily the Criminal, I Love My Dad
It’s LFF day four and Sarah Polley shows us some Women Talking, in her gripping character driven drama, Aubrey Plaza employs some desperate measures to make ends meet in Emily the Criminal, and Patton…