Tag Archives: Thriller

Is it just me, or is Bond better off without Daniel Craig?

“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it,” remarks a supporting character in Macbeth, a play Daniel Craig will shortly star in on Broadway. And something similar might be said of Craig himself, whose departure from the Bond series had a Shakespearean grandeur of which the Bard would …

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Michael Bay producing an American remake of The Raid for Netflix

Cult action movie The Raid is being remade for Netflix, according to Deadline (opens in new tab). Michael Bay will produce the American remake, while Patrick Hughes will direct – his previous movies include The Expendables 3, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, and Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard. His next project is The Man From …

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The 355 review: “A perfunctory mainstream actioner”

Early on in Simon Kinberg’s team-on-a-mission thriller The 355, one operative is described as being “good at everything except taking orders”. We’ve encountered this kind of maverick profiling before, of course, but the cliché isn’t the primary problem here.  While The 355 offers a welcome opportunity to see five women …

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RoboCop director and screenwriter re-teaming for new movie

Director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Edward Neumeier are re-teaming for a new project, a political thriller titled Young Sinner. The pair last worked together on the sci-fi movie Starship Troopers, which was released in 1997, and they also teamed up for 1987’s RoboCop. “I’m really thinking that what Neumeier and …

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Dave Bautista will star in M. Night Shyamalans next movie

Dave Bautista will star in M. Night Shyamalan’s next movie, titled Knock at the Cabin. Deadline (opens in new tab) broke the news, and reports that the actor is in negotiations. Details on the film are scarce, but it will be released by Universal in February 2023. The writer/director has …

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