カテゴリー: Thrillers
Lawrence Valin directs and stars in this Paris-set drama, where a young man caught between cultures infiltrates criminals shaped by Sri Lanka’s civil warHere is a Paris-set story that unfolds during the Sri Lankan civil war and revolves around Tamil im…
Writer, actor and director Lawrence Valin says that in Little Jaffna he wanted to ‘show new role models’It has been hailed as one of the most innovative and surprising French gangster films this year: a suspense movie that tears through Paris’s Tamil n…
The big Diwali release is the latest entry in Rohit Shetty’s ‘Cop Universe’, once again featuring Devgn as the purveyor of supposed nation-saving coolOpening with a special shoutout to the Jammu & Kashmir police, this is the fifth entry in the so-c…
This tasty piece of action cinema provides crunches, squelches and and spatter effects as the good guys and bad guys delightfully smash each other to piecesThe first shot fired in Indian Hindi-language action thriller Kill isn’t unleashed with deadly i…
Director Devashish Makhija slowly ramps up the tension with a sharp eye for oppressive realism and social satire as a father tries to out run his oppressors in this gritty thrillerWhere many thrillers programmatically crank up tension with every scene …
Kapoor plays the scion of a wealthy family whose violence is the result of a craving for love and validation, in a regressive Bollywood blockbusterAlready topping the box office in India, Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s bombastic action film is high on shock tac…
Pushkar-Gayatri’s reboot of their 2017 hit improves on the original thanks to two zingy lead performances from Saif Ali Khan and Hrithik RoshanVikram Vedha was a Tamil hit in 2017, a twisty, semi-subversive thriller in which a bad-ass Chennai cop and …
A thriller that skewers the tense film-maker/reviewer relationship in this tale of a Mumbai serial killer out for revenge on careless journalists Director R Balki must have got a kick out of writing this very enjoyable poison-pen letter to film critici…
The actor will answer questions on Thursday on anything from her new film Mr Malcolm’s List to her career in movies such as Slumdog MillionaireMumbai-born actor Freida Pinto found fame after being cast in 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire: she had been worki…
Anubhav Sinha’s action thriller asks pertinent questions about political conflict and cultural identity“Peace is a subjective hypothesis,” says one character in Anubhav Sinha’s new action thriller, which examines the political conflicts that have plagu…
There are hints of Sergio Leone and Cormac McCarthy in this Rajasthan-set mystery starring the actor and his sonRaj Singh Chaudhary is the Indian actor, screenwriter and now director who has developed his career under the mentorship of Anurag Kashyap, …
Rare response from Richard Moore comes after state news agency posted video mocking western intelligenceThe head of MI6 has thanked China’s state news agency for “free publicity” after it posted a James Bond spoof video in response to a statement he ma…
Balan excels as a resolute forest officer battling sexism and corruption, as well as nature, in the latest satirical thriller from Newton director Amit V MasurkarAfter the success of his 2017 political black comedy Newton, director Amit V Masurkar once…
Why use the door, Salman? Bollywood megastar goes back to basics, pummelling everything in sight including narrative cohesionWhat was originally scheduled as India’s big Eid blockbuster for May 2020 is opening a year later in cinemas everywhere but Ind…
Anurag Kashyap kidnaps the daughter of Anil Kapoor in a mock-doc thriller that skewers India’s showbiz sceneAfter an undistinguished pandemic year, Indian cinema closes out 2020 with a postmodern surprise, at once nifty and nasty. Shot under the radar,…