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fromQueerty
3 days ago

Coming out goes off the rails in this taboo thriller that pushed the boundaries of queer Asian cinema - Queerty

Ethan Mao portrays the intense struggles of a queer Asian youth facing family rejection and the complexities of identity and revenge.
Television
fromConsequence
2 months ago

Javier Bardem to Terrorize Amy Adams in Apple TV's Cape Fear This June

Cape Fear becomes a 10-episode Apple TV series starring Amy Adams, Patrick Wilson, and Javier Bardem, premiering June 5.
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fromThe New Yorker
3 months ago

"No Other Choice" Eliminates the Competition with Style

A laid-off executive faces severe financial strain and responds by plotting targeted violence to regain employment and status.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Son of the Soil review bone-crunching Lagos revenge thriller with bruising swagger

A Nigeria-set revenge thriller follows ex-special forces soldier Zion returning to Lagos to avenge his sister, delivering brutal, 80s-style action and energetic direction.
Television
fromConsequence
5 months ago

Famke Janssen on the Madness of Amsterdam Empire and Returning Home to Act in Dutch: Podcast

Famke Janssen returns to Dutch acting as Betty, a complex ex-pop singer dismantling her husband's coffee-shop empire while co-producing and co-designing her wardrobe.
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fromInverse
6 months ago

'It Was Just An Accident' Is A Darkly Comic Masterwork

A nighttime car accident links a driver and a prosthetic-legged ex-prisoner, triggering a complex revenge thriller with personal and social consequences.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
6 months ago

Ron Perlman: Unless you're Brad Pitt or George Clooney, most actors can't pick their roles'

Ron Perlman stars as aging American soldier Theo in Spanish-language revenge film There Are No Jungles Left, performing intense physical action at age 75.
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months ago

Ghost Trail review pain and paranoia as a Syrian refugee attempts to track down his torturer

The face of a Syrian refugee is the enigmatic key to this slow-burning drama-thriller, the fiction feature debut of French film-maker Jonathan Millet; it is hard, blank, withdrawn, yet showing us an inexpressible agony, a suppressed, unprocessed trauma, complicated by what is evidently a new strategic wariness. The refugee is Hamid (played by Adam Bessa), a former literature professor from Aleppo who is now in Strasbourg in France in 2016,
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fromwww.theguardian.com
11 months ago

The best recent crime and thrillers review roundup

In 'Never Flinch', Holly Gibney investigates a case involving an anonymous letter threatening to kill jurors, showing King's trademark chilling storytelling amidst social themes.
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