Watch it if you like Lily James and Armie Hammer for how pretty they look. Otherwise, it's not *bad*, but it misses the mark.
I recently finished And Then There Were None, a thriller by Agatha Christie. I haven't read an Agatha Christie book in ages, but I picked it up on the recommendation of Anne Bogel from Modern Mrs Darcy in one of her "What Should I Read Next" podcast episodes. Her son also read the book and said it was the best book he ever read, which intrigued me to see what about this book could cause a teenager to love it. I ended up agreeing it is great too. What a baffling mystery and chilling thriller!
Gone Girl was absolutely -- to borrow a word from the film -- *amazing*. The story is superb, supplemented with top-notch acting by Rosamund Pike…
I went into the movie with little idea of what to expect, except a generically good time -- and came out extremely impressed.
If you like conspiracy thrillers like Flightplan and Unknown, and action movies like Taken, you'll surely like Non-Stop, which melds all these genres in a film put together specially for Liam Neeson, the star of the latter two movies. A Hitchcockian thriller set in the confines of an airplane, Non-Stop keeps you on the edge of your seat wondering whodunit, whydunit, howdunit, what-on-earth-is-it, and coming up with some fairly ludicrous theories along the way in your bid to preempt the reveal.
I'm all for fairytales and romance and everything, but this fairytale should have stayed a book.
Some Russians living in the past are planning the collapse of the U.S. economy, and it's up to a brilliant CIA analyst to stop them. If this plot sounds familiar, it's because every other action movie ever made, save those about unstoppable vehicles or sci-fi elements (and sometimes not even then), has it, give or take a few minor changes: the nationality of the villains, the "thing" they want to collapse, the government organisation of the hero's vocation.
Olga Kurylenko and Tom Cruise in Oblivion Tried watching Oblivion, this year's futuristic sci-fi blockbuster starring Tom Cruise, but it wasn't until the third try…
