I ask that, while watching, you keep in mind that neither the article nor the screenplay is fiction.
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Without pretentious and overstated characters who annoy as well as inadvertently diverge your attention off the storyline, “Gone in the Night” has a few plot twists that would have helped it become something to watch. That’s if there’s nothing else on, of course.
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Written and Directed by: John Patton Ford
Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, Megalyn Echikunwoke, and Gina Gershon
Rated: R
Run Time: 1h 33m
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Directed by: David Gordon Green
Written By: Paul Brad Logan, Chris Bernier, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, based on characters created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, Will Patton, Rohan Campbell, Kyle Richards
Rated: R
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Producers: Malek Akkad, Jason Blum, Bill Block
Executive Producers: John Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Ryan Freimann, Ryan Turek, Andrew Golov, Thom Zadra, Christopher H. Warner
I’m starting this review with a bit of trivia. This film had a $200 million budget, making it the most expensive Netflix original movie ever made.
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“The Black Phone” is tightly plotted and wonderfully acted movie about “Stranger Danger” set in the late 1970’s. This was a time of anxious fear of another ‘John Wayne Gacy’ just around the corner. A teenager confronts with abject shock and terror that single scariest of things. That is, an old-fashioned, wall-mounted, rotary-dial telephone! Oh, that and the serial killer who lives upstairs and will always wear freaky masks. Yeah, that’s a scary thing too! Read more
Directed by Olivia Wilde
Writers: Katie Silberman, Carey Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke
Starring: Oscar nominee Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Olivia Wilde, Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne, and Chris Pine
Rated: R
Genre: Thriller
Not only does “Memory” feel just like every other Liam Neeson action/thriller ever made, but it sounds like them, too. Lines such as, “We all have to die sometimes; what’s important is what you do before you go,” have been uttered in films previously. There are others, but that one really stood out.
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Directed by: Michael Bay
Screenplay By: Chris Fedak,
*Based on the original story and screenplay for the 2005 Danish film Ambulance by Laurits Munch-Petersen and Lars Andreas Pedersen
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza GonzálezGenre: Thriller
Genre: Thriller
Produced by: Michael Bay, Bradley J. Fischer, James Vanderbilt, William Sherak, Ian Bryce
Writer/Director Mariama Diallo is laying down a fierce message in her debut film “Master.” As well as a fun horror-thriller, it seems to be a comment on racism in society as a whole in this country. What’s out there is the truth, whether you want to believe it or not. It’s a frightening thing to see, but you mustn’t look away.
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