Tag: thriller
Play The Devil
This psychological thriller is set in the Trinidad where, with its patriarchal society, homosexuality is still closeted and is very much stigmatized. Therefore this story about James an older very successful businessman (Gareth Jenkins) who befriends Gregory an 18 year old dirt-poor student (Petrice Jones) and eventually seduces him, plays out as much of a melodrama than…
Allied
The fact that Allied is a decidedly old fashioned World War 2 espionage thriller/romance from director Robert Zemeckis (Forest Gump & Back To The Future) doesn’t necessarily guarantee that this new movie will prove to be a big crowd pleaser. In fact it wouldn’t be giving too much away at this point to say that…
Nocturnal Animals
Ex fashion guru Tom Ford may start his new movie in the vacuous and pretentious wealthy L.A. art world where everyone is obsessed with appearances, but the other two strands of this multi-layered story take them, and us way out of our comfort zone. After her latest rather outrageous Opening featuring obese naked middle-aged female…
The Accountant
Ben Affleck is Christian Wolff a man of many aliases and quite a whizz at cooking the books for any major league crooks who want to launder a great deal of illegally made money. Known as The Accountant, his autism makes him an obsessively detailed figure man, but it’s his schizophrenia that makes him enjoy…
Retake
For his feature film debut Nick Corporon chose to co-write and direct a road movie with a difference. True having a lonely middle-aged gay man pay for the services of a young hustler to accompany him is hardly new, but the journey they undertake together makes this intriguing resourceful wee drama a very suspenseful edgy thriller. When Jonathan…
