Tag: thriller

For Quincy Carpenter, it began at Pine Cottage, the weekend getaway with her classmates from which she was the only one who returned. Her white dress soaked in

Introduced by writer/director Simon Rumley at Glasgow Film Festival’s FrightFest alongside Amanda Fuller, leading lady of his latest feature, Fashionista was atypical of the offerings of the weekend

By day, Mary Portman is strong. A widow who lives with her teenage stepson, Steven, in a permanent vegetative state since the accident which claimed the life of

In the Yellow Sea off the coast of South Korea the research vessel Yongang sits at anchor, ostensibly in international waters yet too close to Seoul for comfort

Now regarded as the last significant film by director Robert Aldrich, Twilight’s Last Gleaming is a powerful anti-war melodrama centred around the hijacking of a nuclear missile silo

A “metaphysical thriller” published by G K Chesterton in 1908, the last century has seen a vast change in the role of religion on the world stage, with

A 1975 espionage thriller directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, the fourth of their seven collaborations, Three Days of the Condor is an adaptation of James

Awake or asleep, sometimes it makes little difference, the nightmare continues. The death of their daughter Evie has affected Peter and Carol Bower in different ways, but it

Unlike the wellspring from which it has drawn upon for decades, the literature of ideas, too often science fiction cinema has come to be defined by explosions. This

History repeats itself in this, the third novel from South African writer Lauren Beukes, as across the twentieth century a serial killer stalks the streets of Chicago. From