Thrillers

Angelina Jolie and Luc Besson teaming up for Paris-set action thriller

Universal has nabbed North American rights to an as-yet-untitled Angelina Jolie-Luc Besson drama collaboration, in which Jolie is attached to star, according to THR. The project is described as a dramatic thriller with action, and is said to be a cross between Besson’s cult classic films The Professional and The Fifth Element. Besson wrote the ….

Image and movie poster gallery for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, and Jude Law returns as his friend and colleague, Dr. John Watson, in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room…until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large—Professor James Moriarty ….

Image and movie poster gallery for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

This holiday season, two-time Academy Award-winner Brad Bird directs, with producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams, the action-packed spy adventure Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Kremlin, IMF operative Ethan Hunt is disavowed along with the rest of the agency when the President initiates “Ghost Protocol”. Left without any ….

Blue Velvet 25th Anniversary Blu-ray review

David Lynch’s masterpiece modern day film noir Blue Velvet debuted on Blu-ray November 8th, brining with it 50 minutes of never-before-seen rediscovered footage that was thought to be lost forever. With Blue Velvet, Lynch skillfully removed the glossy veneer of suburban existence, revealing the painful realities of everyday American life, adding his own sense of ….

Two new Cabin Fever sequels heading to production

Recently The Indomina Group’s CEO Jasbinder Singh Mann announced that the growing fanboy film producer and distributor is resurrecting the cult favorite Cabin Fever franchise and will produce and distribute at least two new feature films. The Indomina Group has optioned the rights for two new Cabin Fever installments, which will be titled Cabin Fever: ….

E One nabs rights to post-apocalyptic war action thriller The Day

Content Film has announced that Entertainment One has nabbed rights in certain countries to the post-apocalyptic war action thriller The Day, directed by Doug Aarniokoski, written by Luke Passmore and produced by Guy A. Danella (The Fourth Kind). The film was also bought by Japan’s Nettai Museum. An open war against humanity rages in The ….

Images from old school action thriller Sinners and Saints

Remember those hardcore, old school, action movies, when it was all about blowing shit up on camera, without CGI? When fights actually looked real? When actual stuntmen did actual stunts? Well apparently Anchor Bay remembers those days fondly with the January 10, 2012 Blu-ray and DVD release of old school action thriller Sinners and Saints. ….

MGM Limited Edition Collection September 2011 title reviews

Sugar Hill (1974) The Paul Maslansky-directed Sugar Hill stars Marki Bey, Robert Quarry, Don Pedro Colley, Betty Anne Rees, Richard Lawson and Zara Cully. The film is a must-watch for fans of black horror films of the 1970s, “borrowing” elements from every film from Night of the Living Dead to Sheba, Baby. In Sugar Hill, ….

Universal lensing new supernatural Werewolf thriller

Universal’s new supernatural Untitled Werewolf Thriller has begun shooting in and around Bucharest, Romania, according to Universal 1440 Entertainment’s Glenn Ross. Universal celebrates its storied history of creatures and horror with an original adventure that embraces the popular cultural resurgence of the age-old werewolf myth. Action and suspense collide as an army of bounty hunters ….