Thriller
Prey
PREY For the Prey Frank Movie Review, click on the Strong Women Movies link below: Strong Women Movies Amber Midthunder
- 2022
- Action, Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror
Interceptor
INTERCEPTOR For the Interceptor Frank Movie Review, click on the Strong Women Movies link below: Strong Women Movies Elsa Pataky
Ambulance
AMBULANCE The recent Marvel Superhero films (Dr. Strange in the… and Moon Knight) have become too complicated (or maybe too nonsensical), too long, tiring, and boring by the film’s end. Therefore, it is good to go to the theater and watch a straightforward and bloody cop versus crooks chase film that is, unfortunately, still too…
Four Quick Movie Reviews
Metal Lords and Kimi
- 2025
Windfall
WINDFALL Windfall is a psychological drama that takes a jab at the class structure in the U.S., but the story is slow, and some of the actors don’t sell it. However, the ending is surprising in a weirdly satisfying way, almost making it worth watching the short 92-minute movie. The Director, Charlie McDowell, married to…
Death on the Nile
DEATH ON THE NILE The detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) is back, traveling with a group of entitled and resentful rich people as he attempts to solve a murder committed during a wedding celebration in the newest installment of the Agatha Christie murder mystery series, Death on the Nile. Hindsight shows that the viewer…
Last Night in Soho
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO Last Night in Soho is a psychological thriller written and directed by the Londoner Edgar Wright. This film is the ninth feature film that Edgar Wright has written and/or directed. He is best known to me for Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and Shaun of the Dead. Last Night…
Hellbound
HELLBOUND Watch the first six minutes of Hellbound, a Korean horror thriller series, and you will be intrigued by the supernatural horror that is happening in a South Korean city, or you will be appalled by the “demonstration” and will miss an exciting horror thriller. The first three episodes of Hellbound show the beginning of…
Old Henry
OLD HENRY Old Henry fits the bill if you are in the mood for a well-executed, good old-fashioned western, with plenty of shoot outs and bad frontier parenting. Tim Blake Nelson, best known as a support character actor (I remember him as Delmar in O Brother, Where Art Thou), is the capable lead in Old…
Till Death
TILL DEATH Never did I think I would intentionally watch a Megan Fox movie for her acting. Till Death, a suspense thriller is the most enjoyable movie I’ve seen in a long time, albeit a bit bloody. Not slasher bloody, just you stab me, or I stab you bloody. Megan Fox is superb changing from…
How I Live Now
HOW I LIVE NOW How I Live Now, a 2013 drama romance film, is a small quiet film that tackles a huge problem (nuclear war in Europe) on a small scale (how four kids deal with the war). The film is not too bloody or horrifying, and it is not a children’s film. How I…
Pig
PIG Don’t listen to college-aged adults for movie recommendations. They told me Nicholas Cage “goes John Wick” in this Independent drama Pig (referring to the 2014 film John Wick). Some of the official publicity for the film also wrongly compared Pig to John Wick. At the onset of the drama Pig, everything points to Ron…
Black Widow
BLACK WIDOW MCU Phase 4 Black Widow, a Marvel superhero movie, is the fourth movie in Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Phase 4 of the MCU will introduce new heroes and explore a post-Endgame world where half of the universe reappeared five years after an event known as the “Blip.” There are…
- 2021
- Action, Adventure, Thriller, Science Fiction
In the Shadow of the Moon
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON In the Shadow of the Moon, a sci-fi thriller is one of the thousands of good films hidden deep within Netflix. I only found it because I wanted to time travel and searched Google for “movies about time travel.” In the Shadow of the Moon is a detective story…
- 2019
- Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Army of the Dead
ARMY OF THE DEAD Zombie movies are not going away. Zack Snyder co-wrote, directed, filmed, and produced Army of the Dead, Netflix’s newest zombie heist film. Army of the Dead creates a new Alpha zombie species that can rule lesser zombies (Shamblers), plot attacks, have a Queen, and impregnate the Queen. Get ready for more…
Tenet
TENET Kudos to Tenet, the sci-fi action film by Christopher Nolan, for being one of the only movies released to theaters during the lockdown summer of 2020. That was probably a good decision since there was no competition in the theaters, so Tenet got a lot of press. More press than it would have received…
- 2020
- Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
I Care a Lot
I CARE A LOT Do not worry seniors, this could never happen to you … although … with a weak Judge, unethical Doctor, compliant nursing home, and a sociopath, you may be in trouble at this very moment. The dark comedy I Care a Lot (a very dark comedy if you are a senior) is…
Martha Marcy May Marlene
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE Martha Marcy May Marlene is an unsatisfying and frustrating 2011 thriller by a first-time writer and director, Sean Durkin. The lead character is Elizabeth Olsen (MCU’s Scarlet Witch, WandaVision), and this film is her first starring role. The presence of Elizabeth Olsen is probably the only reason this film is still…
The Devil All the Time
THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME The Devil All the Time is a psychological thriller about a boy named Arvin. Let me start again. The Devil All the Time is a psychologically scary film that makes you uncomfortable and makes you even more concerned about the state of humanity. The film depicts the life of Arvin…
The Last Days of American Crime
THE LAST DAYS OF AMERICAN CRIME They miss every opportunity to make The Last Days of American Crime, this action thriller movie on Netflix, even the least bit interesting or intriguing. There are a couple of good (nonsensical) explosions. Well, at least one explosion when a mobile home blows up for no apparent reason. There…