Review – Gaslight (1944)
Ingrid Bergman delivers a career performance in the 1944 George Cukor classic thriller about manipulation and deceit
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Review – Doctor Sleep
The sequel to ‘The Shining’ strikes a careful balance between homage to the cinematic predecessor and offering an entirely new film, and delivers an impressive and engaging dark thriller
Read moreReview – The Limehouse Golem
2016’s The Limehouse Golem is an atmospheric thriller set in Victorian London, directed by relative newcomer Juan Carlos Medina – whose previous feature film was 2012’s Painless. Bill Nighy stars as Inspector John Kildare a formerly well regarded police officer, who has been previously sidelined. As a vicious serial killer known as the ‘Limehouse Golem’ claims their latest victim, he
Read moreReview : Murder on the Orient Express
Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective with the ‘little grey cells’ is back on the Big Screen! This time in the form of actor / director Kenneth Branagh, the 2017 film adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express is a sold enough version of the Agatha Christie whodunnit. Originally written in 1934, Christie’s novel takes to the screen with an all
Read moreReview – Miss Sloane
Miss Sloane is a 2016 political thriller set in the increasingly murky world of business interest lobbying of politicians and governments. Starring Jessica Chastain as the title character within the film, it is directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Captain Correlli’s Mandolin) and is the screenplay debut by Jonathon Perera. As Sloane introduces us all
Read moreReview – Gone Baby Gone
For ‘G’ in the Alphabet challenge, we head off to the Boston based crime thriller Gone Baby Gone, directed by Ben Affleck and starring his younger brother Casey. The film, based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane (Shutter Island, The Drop, Mystic River), is a crime thriller with strong film noir feel to it following the
Read moreReview – Basic
To Panama we head for the 2nd film of this year’s Alphabet Challenge and to the 2003 film Basic. Directed by John McTiernan, the film is a military mystery thriller starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, and was written by James Vanderbilt. Travolta plays DEA Agent Tom Hardy (yep really!) who is called upon one evening by a former
Read moreReview – A Most Violent Year
Oscar Isaac stars in this 2014 business / crime thriller set in 1981’s New York, directed by J.C. Chandor (whose two previous directing roles of Margin Call and All is Lost, are both worthy of viewing). The film centres on Abel Morales (Isaacs) and his wife (Jessica Chastain). We find Morales, an upcoming owner of an fuel company, taking on
Read moreReview – The Girl on the Train
Based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Paula Hawkins, our latest review is of Girl on the Train, a psychological drama directed by Tate Taylor with Emily Blunt in the lead role. Taylor’s best known previous work was the 2011 The Help and the 2014 Get on Up. Blunt plays Rachel, a single divorcee whose marriage fell
Read moreReview – Nocturnal Animals
Tom Ford’s first return to directing since 2009’s A Single Man, is the 2016 dark psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals. Ford also wrote the screenplay, which is based on the 1993 novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright. The film stars Amy Adams as Susan Morrow, a successful art gallery director who is in a struggling marriage with business man Armie
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