Tag Archives: Thriller

Review in Brief: Do Revenge (2022)

Posted on December 14, 2022 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

DO REVENGE is MEAN GIRLS meets STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, but with plenty of choice 90s needle drops. After a humiliating sex tape is leaked to her prep school, former queen bee Drea Torres (Camila Mendes) makes a deal with … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: The Outfit (2022)

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

THE OUTFIT is one of the best films with one of the worst trailers of 2022. The marketing might have had you fooled that you had it all figured out, but this tense little chamber piece about a British cutter … Continue reading →

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Nope (2022) Review

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

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Prey (2022) Review

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

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Review in Brief: Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Who’d have guessed a legacy sequel to TOP GUN would be this damn good? MAVERICK sees, well, Maverick (Tom Cruise) reluctantly return to the Top Gun flight school to train the next generation of superior naval aviators, including the son … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Nightmare Alley (2021)

Posted on February 8, 2022 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Following his Oscar win for THE SHAPE OF WATER, Guillermo del Toro could have done anything; Hollywood was his. He eventually decided on NIGHTMARE ALLEY, mounting a twisty and epic in scope noir-psychological-thriller based on an obscure novel from the … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Titane (2021)

Posted on November 16, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

TITANE, isn’t that the car-f***ing movie? Yes, and so much more. Writer-director Julia Ducornau (RAW) has, within five years, unleashed on the world two of the most transcendent, bold and both warm and messed up films of the 21st century … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Last Night in Soho (2021)

Posted on November 5, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Edgar Wright’s latest is another dazzling, musically-lead genre cocktail that might not feel quite as singular as BABY DRIVER but still demonstrates that he is the best there is at this sort of thing. Thomasin McKenzie is Eloise, a fashion … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Old (2021)

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

OLD is the kind of movie that makes you wonder, was M Night Shyamalan ever that good? The film follows several families trapped on an inescapable beech where time passes at such a rapid rate that children become adults in … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Shorta (2020)

Posted on September 25, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Slickly executed, punchy and almost unbearably tense, SHORTA really makes an impact in a world where a frankly insane amount of people from minority communities are still losing their lives to police brutality. After a botched arrest in a Danish … Continue reading →

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