Category: 4K Thriller

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 …

Fearful Sleepover 10 Cloverfield Lane traps a young women in a 1950s time capsule. Or rather, a bunker, populated by an older man (John Goodman) who obsesses over survival. …

Al-LIE-d Despite trailers which depict Brad Pitt spraying machine guns at Nazis (recalling a bit of his run in Inglorious Basterds) Allied reaches for its few minutes of action. …

Shark on Fire Up until the closing moments, The Shallows makes for a firm, lonely thriller. Blake Lively’s terrified looks add legitimacy to the concept of someone stranded just …