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Category: Thriller

Film Review – Decision To Leave (2022)

Decision To Leave streaming now on MUBI and out to own on 9th January 2023 on Blu-ray

Elvis Presley famously sang about ‘suspicious minds’ in 1969. 53 years later Korean film maker Park Chan-Wook seduces our eyes with crimes of the heart in his latest thriller, Decision To Leave. Now arrived on MUBI, soon to Blu-ray in a couple of weeks. Suspicious minds run amok in Chan-Wook’s first theatrical release in over… Read More Film Review – Decision To Leave (2022)

December 28, 2022 chroniclesinfilmLeave a comment

Film Review – Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

Like any film I always give it a chance before giving judgement. A24 Films has been a distributor that’s given us many reliable releases. Here in the UK this film was released by Sony Pictures Releasing. Sadly the film lacking more unoriginality and scare factor you expect from horror films. The film stars Amandla Stenberg… Read More Film Review – Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

November 28, 2022December 4, 2022 chroniclesinfilmLeave a comment

Film Review – Watcher (2022)

Maika Munro in Watcher out now in UK Cinemas

In 1954 Alfred Hitchcock opened the door to voyeurism in film with Rear Window. You could argue Voyeuristic films have been around well before the classic Hitchcock film, you would be correct. Watching strangers from windows would become a popular pastime in the thriller and horror genres. Now Chloe Okuno’s Watcher wants you to ‘Watch’… Read More Film Review – Watcher (2022)

November 11, 2022November 8, 2022 chroniclesinfilmLeave a comment

Film Review – Escape From Pretoria (2020)

After 20 plus years playing the boy wizard, Daniel Radcliffe has done his best to make sure when Hogwarts door closed for him he wouldn’t be forgotten. Same could be said about Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson with Twilight Saga. One could argue about the qaulity of those films, which we’ll leave you to decide.… Read More Film Review – Escape From Pretoria (2020)

October 4, 2022October 5, 2022 chroniclesinfilmLeave a comment

Best Hong Kong Crime Thrillers

Running Out Of Time 2 (2001)

When it comes to crime thrillers, some of the best ever made have come from Hong Kong. Thought provoking, action packed, noir tinged, captivating sometimes even slow burning and comedic. The sub genre has given us some film auteurs actors who have ventured into Hollywood, most of all great films. To coincide with Running Out… Read More Best Hong Kong Crime Thrillers

September 24, 2022 chroniclesinfilmLeave a comment

Film Review – Fall (2022)

Grace Caroline Gardner in Fall (2022)

Would you dangle from a rusty 2000 foot tower to pose for a selfie? Like majority of us the answer will be know unless you’re an adrenalin junkie. Like the two girls in Scott Mann’s survival thriller Fall and one ‘edge’ you don’t want to go over! Fear reaches new heights, for this one that… Read More Film Review – Fall (2022)

September 6, 2022 chroniclesinfilm1 Comment

Film Review – Running Out Of Time 1+2 (Masters Of Cinema)

From Running Out Of Time (1999)

Released as part of their brilliant Masters of Cinema series, Eureka Entertainment give us the slick cat and mouse thriller Running Out Of Time. Directed by Johnnie To and a film that was released in 1999 and was one of Hong Kong’s biggest box office hits of that year and now released in the UK… Read More Film Review – Running Out Of Time 1+2 (Masters Of Cinema)

August 6, 2022August 6, 2022 chroniclesinfilmLeave a comment

Film Review – Last Night In Soho (2021)

2021 was a busy year for Edgar Wright with wooing as well as educating us with The Sparks Brothers documentary. Ending the year with the genre mixing psychological thriller Last Night In Soho. As the ghosts of the past terrorise a young aspiring fashion designer or is it all in her mind? Many cities all… Read More Film Review – Last Night In Soho (2021)

March 20, 2022 chroniclesinfilmLeave a comment

Film Review – Uncut Gems (2020)

For many years I’ve not hideen my dislike for the majority of Adam Sandler‘s filmography. I could easily count all his films I’ve enjoyed on one hand with several fingers to spare. 2020 that hand now has one less spare finger with the Safdie Brothers Uncut Gems. Ben and Josh Safdie introduced themselves to the… Read More Film Review – Uncut Gems (2020)

June 30, 2021July 2, 2021 chroniclesinfilmLeave a comment

Film Review – Bacurau (2019)

‘Never judge a book by it’s cover’, it’s a saying you can use in many situations including describing films like Kleber Mendoca Filho and Juliano Dornelles‘ Bacurau. A film you may think you about,  but you really don’t. All about wealthy inequality, class struggle, dripping in blood-lust and Udo Kier! More and more we’re seeing… Read More Film Review – Bacurau (2019)

May 23, 2020July 29, 2020 chroniclesinfilmLeave a comment

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