Tagged: thriller

chase beck / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 25, 2021

Mosquito State: Not Quite a Plague, by Chase Beck

Quick, what’s the deadliest animal you can think of? Your mind probably flashed to something with rows of pointed teeth or powerful, sharp claws. You might even be ready with a less conventional pick, guessing that humans are the most...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

August 16, 2021

Criterion Prediction #269: Good Time, by Alexander Miller

Title: Good Time Year: 2017 Director(s): Josh and Benny Safdie Cast: Robert Pattinson, Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Benny Safdie, Buddy Duress, Barkhad Abdi, Taliah Webster, Necro, muMs Synopsis: When two brothers, Nick (Safdie) and Connie (Pattinson) Nikas, narrowly escape a botched bank...

chase beck / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 12, 2021

The East: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Turk, by Chase Beck

War is hell, and sometimes war is hell and prostitutes. The East is a Dutch-language film by writer/director Jim Taihuttu. Along with fellow writer Mustafa Guygulu, Taihuttu created a film that follows the life of Dutch soldier, Johan De Vries...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 24, 2021

False Positive: A Crowning Achievement, by David Bax

Going into False Positive armed with no knowledge other than the names of those involved, you would be forgiven for expecting to laugh. Starring Broad City‘s Ilana Glazer, directed by John Lee (a force behind a good number of the...

dayne linford / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

May 27, 2021

The Djinn: Wise Investment, by Dayne Linford

Clearly but cleverly made on a shoestring budget, The Djinn manages to make its limitations a mostly natural element of the story, focusing on one boy’s grief following the death of his mother, his sense of guilt and alienation manifested...

cast of cthulhu / james mccormick / jim rohner / movies

May 26, 2021

The Cast of Cthulhu: The Empty Man

We went into The Empty Man expecting a subpar knockoff of the Slender Man story and were we delightfully surprised to see that it was anything but! Receiving a similar fate to another overlooked horror film that Disney unceremoniously dumped after acquiring Fox, this...

cast of cthulhu / james mccormick / jim rohner / movies

May 26, 2021

The Cast of Cthulhu: Lord of Illusions

Sincerest apologies for both the episode delay (life stuff) and audio quality of Jim’s vocal track (forgot mic due to life stuff), but if you’re able to forgive us for those hiccups, we are excited to have Council of Zoom‘s Kieran...

2021 / david bax / movies / TCM Fest / TCM Fest 2021

May 12, 2021

TCM Classic Film Festival 2021: Part Three, by David Bax

For a long time, I had very little interest in seeing Bullitt, a movie I snobbishly thought of as a Steve McQueen vanity project, something he reverse engineered from the idea for a car chase scene. I softened my stance...

2021 / david bax / movies / TCM Fest / TCM Fest 2021

May 11, 2021

TCM Classic Film Festival 2021: Part Two, by David Bax

1947’s T-Men is one of a flurry of propaganda movies made in the 1940s and 50s with the cooperation of various law enforcement agencies. Like 1949’s Trapped, this one’s about treasury agents tracking counterfeiters. Other examples include 1954’s Down Three...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 30, 2021

Cliff Walkers: The Spies Who Stayed Out in the Cold, by David Bax

He may have spent his career wildly hopping genres, from historical melodrama (Raise the Red Lantern) to wuxia epic (Hero) to gangster flick (Shanghai Triad) to Coen brothers remake (A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop) to however you...

Tagged: thriller

Mosquito State: Not Quite a Plague, by Chase Beck

Criterion Prediction #269: Good Time, by Alexander Miller

The East: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Turk, by Chase Beck

False Positive: A Crowning Achievement, by David Bax

The Djinn: Wise Investment, by Dayne Linford

The Cast of Cthulhu: The Empty Man

The Cast of Cthulhu: Lord of Illusions

TCM Classic Film Festival 2021: Part Three, by David Bax

TCM Classic Film Festival 2021: Part Two, by David Bax

Cliff Walkers: The Spies Who Stayed Out in the Cold, by David Bax

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