Category: 4K Thriller

Elway or Manning? Cold Pursuit is not a normal movie. Not an American one, anyway. From a Norwegian director and a Danish scriptwriter (and remade from the Norwegian original), …

Okey-dokey Hannibal idolizes its killer. Lecter is surrounded by elegance and seductive cinematography, sweeping through lush Italian locations. It’s high class, swelling with mournful violins and coated in operatic …

Broken Glass Glass considers that comic books cannot exist. Sarah Paulson’s character refuses to acknowledge their existence; they need to be fantasy, a disease, as represented by three interconnected …

Critical Aversion Day of the Soldado concerns itself with border crossings, human trafficking, and for brief moment, Muslim terrorists who detonate suicide vests inside of an American grocery store. …

Shadow Man Shadow Recruit almost got things right. This 2014 release saw Russians breaking America down financially, not politically. Shadow Recruit has jitters for another financial collapse, not long …

Summarizing Nukes It’s unnerving how unusually prescient the Jack Ryan films tend be. Not long after 9/11, as nations stood on alert for Middle Eastern terrorists, Sum of All …

Prescient Danger Given the reference, the title Clear and Present Danger never fell out of style. Although fixated on the Reagan-era drug war, the greater arc is that of …

Gaming the Patriot Jack Ryan, aged 20 years since The Hunt for Red October, now lives in the prototypical American home. It’s a lavish, expensive structure, painted white with …

Red, White, and Blue October Sam Neill and Sean Connery share a quiet, contemplative conversation midway through The Hunt for Red October. Neill goes wide-eyed, dreaming of Montana. Connery …

Shh… Without the typical genre conventions, A Quiet Place rewrites the rules of cinema horror. No drunken teens, no classless characters; rather, A Quiet Place focuses on the family …

If Liam Neeson Boards, Get Out The latest in the “Liam Neeson punches dudes” genre works to the extent these movies do. It’s a competent retread of Neeson’s Non-Stop, …

Train-ed Killers If there’s justification for another screen adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, it’s this update’s cinematography. With the eye of cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos and direction of …