Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Television, Thriller
TV: Better Call Saul (Season 6)
The task of successfully ending any beloved television series must surely be difficult enough. But when you’re Better Call…
September 10, 2022-
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Comedy, Drama, Television, ThrillerTV: The Flight Attendant (Season 2)
With a premise decidedly not built to last, The Flight Attendant must have generated too much buzz not to…
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Film, Mystery, ThrillerFilm: Unsane
Steven Soderbergh is always worth checking out, and while Unsane (2018) isn’t his most accomplished outing, it’s a classy,…
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Film, Mystery, ThrillerFilm: Blow Out
Brian De Palma’s early work often engenders a schizophrenic reaction in me, enticing with cagey genre content and cinephile…
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Film, Horror, Mystery, ThrillerFilm: The Rental
Films don’t need to be huge and flashy to be effective, and The Rental (2020) is a slick little…
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Film, Spies, ThrillerFilm: Black Sunday
John Frankenheimer’s output from the 1960s is stylish, stirring, and memorable, but his later work doesn’t tend to work…
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Drama, Film, ThrillerFilm: Poseidon
Disaster films are all about the spectacle, of course, and if gauged on that score alone, Poseidon (2006) –…
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Film, Horror, ThrillerFilm: Eyes of Laura Mars
Something about the grungy look and feel of seventies cinema appeals to me, and Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)…
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Film, Horror, ThrillerFilm: Last Night in Soho
Edgar Wright has gifted us with the likes of Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver, and Scott Pilgrim vs.…
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Comedy, Drama, Television, ThrillerTV: Barry (Season 3)
In its first two seasons, HBO’s Barry established itself as a problematic but breathlessly entertaining series about a hitman-turned-aspiring-actor.…
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Drama, Film, ThrillerFilm: The Wolf Hour
Believe it or not, The Wolf Hour (2019) isn’t a pandemic production, but it has all the earmarks of…
June 15, 2022 -
Fiction, Spies, ThrillerNovel: Box 88 by Charles Cumming
The always reliable Charles Cumming’s new series begins with Box 88 (2020), a time-jumping spy thriller about a clandestine…
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Drama, Television, ThrillerTV: Welcome to Eden (Season 1)
It’s dressed up in the fancy clothes of a twisty mystery box, but don’t be fooled: Netflix’s new series…
May 16, 2022 -
Film, ThrillerFilm: The Hunter
Steve McQueen’s final film The Hunter (1980) is basically an excuse for stunts, and it won’t resonate much with…
May 15, 2022 -
Drama, Mystery, Television, ThrillerTV: Ozark (Season 4)
The fourth and final season of Ozark was split into two seven-episode chunks, and it’s easy to see why…
May 8, 2022