Thriller is a broad category — there are crime thrillers, psychological thrillers, suspense thrillers, romantic thrillers.
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There are psychological thrillers, crime thrillers, spy thrillers, YA slashers about cheerleaders.
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Thrillers Some people feel that the beach is the best place to read thrillers.
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So if American thrillers function as a kind of propaganda, demonizing foreign enemies, then do foreign thrillers make America the villain?
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If one can parody film noir, a genre that had an outsize influence on erotic thrillers, you're already halfway toward giving erotic thrillers the parody they deserve.
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Thomson, the author of 10 previous novels, many of them either thrillers or incorporating the elements of thrillers, doesn't appear to be much interested in those aspects of Cahun and Moore.
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Thrillers and horror, the genres that serve as our cultural unconscious, are left to pick up the slack; "mom thrillers" so often hinge on the anxieties of child care and racial privilege.
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Thrillers mess with your head, but in a good way.
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John Scalzi is known for his witty science fiction thrillers.
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"The thrillers, that was all a pure accident," he said.
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Also authors of thrillers like Michael Connelly and Nelson DeMille.
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We have six new thrillers to put on your radar.
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Don't tell anyone, but I have a fondness for thrillers.
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Mr. Adler wrote thrillers, love stories, mysteries and historical fiction.
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Thrillers need to be, as Meyer's copywriter knows, tautly plotted.
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"This is my 20 year anniversary of writing thrillers," he says.
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Stone paranoid nihilist thrillers and two-hankie Whitney Houston romances and
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He mows the lawn, and he likes watching thrillers on television.
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This nuance, though, is especially fascinating, the stuff of spy thrillers.
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We've gathered the best recent thrillers to take on the beach.
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While the first two films almost felt like crime thrillers that
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Intriguing thrillers, important documentaries, satire, and historical drama dot the schedule.
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Nonfiction doesn't work, and thrillers with one-dimensional characters don't either.
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The book is reminiscent of the best Robert Ludlum-like thrillers.
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The 1990s brought us many memorable films, from comedies to thrillers.
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Granted, thrillers aren't generally considered a genre that prioritizes multidimensional protagonists.
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I still read a lot of war novels and espionage thrillers.
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Stream some spine-tingling thrillers from the safety of your sofa.
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It's telling that they're both thrillers about class conflict and inequality.
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Psychological thrillers, like The Wives, are roller coasters in book form.
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I'm a huge fan of the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s.
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French writes what are usually called literary thrillers, meaning they are less trope-driven than the kind of commercial thrillers her books are sometimes shelved next to — a little bit more Gillian Flynn than James Patterson.
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After being released, Stonehouse reinvented himself as the author of several thrillers.
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She's clearly ready to go for her roles in the upcoming thrillers.
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"People seem to love thrillers," she said in an interview on Friday.
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They made 17 films in captivity, ranging from tear-jerkers to thrillers.
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But there's a reason so few thrillers are set in genuine utopias.
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Save up to 80% off select Mysteries, Thrillers, and more on Kindle
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He writes mysteries and thrillers — page-turners, some people might call them.
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We thought we'd remake some of our favorite Christmas comedies into thrillers.
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I like scenes in which there is an emotional weight, erotic thrillers.
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Then he left the paper to write a popular series of thrillers.
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This is not a particularly brutal or cruel novel, as thrillers go.
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If you prize dialogue over action in your political thrillers, try this.
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She is also the author of two spy thrillers, "Burned" and "Blowback."
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This is why standard throwaway airport thrillers don't migrate well beneath ground.
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Right now I probably read 50 or so crime thrillers a year.
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Like the subgenre itself, psychological thrillers seem to go anywhere and everywhere.
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But fans of thrillers are there for the ride, not the landing.
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Each category, from nonfiction to thrillers and sports, has something worth coveting.
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If you were to write something besides thrillers, what would you write?
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I also love spy thrillers, novels about drug cartels, and the like.
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The surveillance state is the stuff of dystopian novels and futuristic thrillers.
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The director is known as an unpredictable genre-bender, confidently concocting erotic thrillers, anti-erotic thrillers, musicals, literary adaptations (his 2007 film, "Angel," was an imaginative and very apt view of Elizabeth Taylor's tricky, brilliant novel) and more.
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It's hard to deny that the framework of most erotic thrillers is misogynistic.
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I write political thrillers, which means spinning fantastic stories out of everyday headlines.
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All in all, there are nine fun, fast-paced thrillers to tear through.
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The Scandinavians have dark winters and darker thrillers to balance out their twee.
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Don't tell the other genres, but thrillers make for the best summer reads.
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Steamy Thrillers (972)A little romance, a little terror – what's not to love?
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Looked at one way, these films are little more than competent adult thrillers.
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Yet what truly sets "Killing Eve" apart from other thrillers is its playfulness.
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Amanda Hocking's self-published paranormal thrillers have sold millions of copies on Amazon.
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Season 22 on Amazon, starting Tuesday Watch if you like visually stunning thrillers.
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And yet the director wasn't known for making horror films or even thrillers.
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We like comedies, thrillers and dramas- anything really as long as it's good.
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Watch: "Counterpart" and "Berlin Station," two entertaining espionage thrillers, both set in Berlin.
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I have always loved thrillers — you can get away with anything in them.
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There are lots of categories, from thrillers to cooking to romance and more.
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So it seems his vocal chords have as much tension as his blockbuster thrillers.
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PUBG is a game designed so that those suspenseful thrillers emerge from its rules.
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Both of these psychological thrillers deal with the tensions inherent in their suburban settings.
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Feel like you can never find movies to fulfill your "steamy thrillers" guilty pleasure?
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This isn't one of those nostalgia-worshiping fish-romance action-thrillers made for kids.
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You know the problem with most Michael Crichton-style, high-tech, science-fiction thrillers?
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It's hard to talk about contemporary mystery thrillers without hearing the name Paula Hawkins.
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Most psychological thrillers are firmly, and successfully, premised on the conclusion that we can't.
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In 2019 Netflix released countless original dramas, comedies, and thrillers to varying critical reception.
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I avoid mysteries, thrillers and, I'm sorry to admit, books about policy or economics.
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He was the king of military thrillers and frankly, he got it about right.
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"Saint X" is already shaping up to be one of the thrillers of 2020.
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For decades, Brad Pitt has appeared in dozens of films, from thrillers to comedies.
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When the world is too much, I love to read thrillers and romance novels.
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And you can spice up your week with a global array of erotic thrillers.
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But there's also the usual collection of thrillers, biopics, satires and straight-ahead dramas.
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I highly recommend The Lies We Told to anyone into mystery and psychological thrillers.
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In the 21981s and '21947s, erotic thrillers enticed panting movie audiences across the country.
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Thrillers Want to escape the real-life suspense novel we're living in these days?
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In Italian, giallo means yellow, and the sultry genre of "giallo" thrillers heralding from 1960s and 70s Italy, takes its title from the covers of paperback pulp fiction thrillers published by Mondadori (which incidentally celebrates 90 years of the series this summer).
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Fans of "parental angst" thrillers like Rosemary's Baby and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.
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Slashers, psychological thrillers, and tales of the paranormal can all exist under the same umbrella.
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His left turn into action thrillers was "all a pure accident," Neeson said at TIFF.
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That all makes for good political thrillers; much better material than the usual partisan fights.
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Unlike most thrillers written for television, these novels also afford us the luxury of interiority.
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Bollywood doesn't make too many thrillers and when it does, they don't always measure up.
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As an actress in horror films and thrillers, I had played this moment many times.
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Greengrass's Bourne films are contemporary techno thrillers set against the backdrop of ever-expanding surveillance.
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By definition, erotic thrillers are over-the-top and run on a surplus of horniness.
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But nobody ever said thrillers have to play nice as long as they play fair.
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Ross Thomas was my favorite — he really taught me, in detail, how to write thrillers.
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Sonja is a childless 40-something translator of misogynistic thrillers devoured by her Danish countrymen.
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Sometimes people came with outlandish plans for murder or maiming, seemingly cribbed from Hollywood thrillers.
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Kevin McKidd, James Pickens Jr., and Jesse Williams have all starred in low-rated thrillers.
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He also the author of two military and intelligence thrillers: The Inheritor and Autumn Fire.
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"Fauda" is also a family drama, in a way that American thrillers can't really duplicate.
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Quite a few recent games have been thrillers with lots of touchdowns and exciting moments.
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Lord was living with his elderly mother in Harrisburg, Pa., writing unpublished thrillers and screenplays.
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And for nearly two decades the director's carved a niche with hit or miss supernatural thrillers.
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"Even in the cinephile community, erotic thrillers are often mocked," BFI programmer Anna Bogutskaya tells me.
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And at the very least, it's a great watch for anyone into high stakes, dramatic thrillers.
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The EFO library ranges from forgotten Nicolas Cage thrillers to prestige pics like Martin Scorsese's Silence.
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Choose from thrillers, historical works, cookbooks, and even titles for the little ones in your life.
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Bong is known for weaving social themes into stories that play as both comedies and thrillers.
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Can you recommend any thrillers or other works of fiction that get law enforcement particularly right?
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As I discovered this morning, I get upset over reboots of 1990's Joel Schumacher thrillers.
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This structure allows Older to create paced thrillers without losing the intellectual spirit of speculative fiction.
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Handling a tail is not like what most people have read or watched in spy thrillers.
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He met Mr. Jenkins in 1992 and proposed that they turn biblical prophesies into futuristic thrillers.
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"Parasite" is one of the year's best thrillers you should see without knowing anything about it.
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He stayed in Hollywood and became an extremely successful independent producer of thrillers and adventure tales.
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Yean man, it's one of those action thrillers; I guess that's what they call them now.
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It turns out that horror shows and thrillers draw us in quickly and keep us hooked.
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Good Sentences To the Editor: I almost didn't read Charles Finch's whole column (Thrillers, Oct. 30).
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Indeed, the final plot twist will elicit a nod from anyone conversant with 1980s Hollywood thrillers.
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Y.A. Thrillers That Put Teenagers to the Test An emotionless world where feelings are a commodity.
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Can you recommend any thrillers or other works of fiction that get military service particularly right?
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Fans of zingier thrillers might wish the big moments in this one popped with more drama.
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The horrors of authorship — missed deadlines, self-loathing, isolation — provide especially good material for psychological thrillers.
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That the standard ideas of espionage that fuel most spy thrillers suddenly seem out of date?
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Thrillers, too, have trained us to regard certain locales as settings for danger and adrenalized excitement.
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A Fall from Grace isn't the Hollywood mogul's first foray into the world of sexy thrillers.
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Nevertheless, for patient or forgiving fans of idiosyncratic thrillers, "Disappearance" may deliver satisfactory spills and chills.
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Offstage, Carney's cultural diet includes plenty of songs, plus television thrillers and the occasional cat video.
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"On the other hand, they widely panned thrillers like "Polar" and "The Red Sea Diving Resort.
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In thrillers, you always have to be up on a hill where you don't get reception.
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This is what drew me to erotic thrillers: the unselfconscious, debauched frigidity of the femme fatale.
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It's clear that Peele is drawing on a long tradition of social thrillers and horror films.
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But if action-thrillers aren't your jam, there are plenty of other options making their way online.
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The devilishly frightening film helped popularize supernatural thrillers and showed that horror could be popular and acclaimed.
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"We've had our share of thrillers in this building since we've been in the ACC," Brey said.
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THE drama in the average congressional committee hearing makes Samuel Beckett's plays look like fast-paced thrillers.
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"It's commonly said that the great thrillers are often great love stories," said executive producer Stephen Cornwell.
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Halloween-friendly thrillers (Insomnia, Devil) and frightening flicks (The Exorcist, Estranged) will be gone by mid-October.
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All — and I repeat, all — psychological thrillers featuring charming, almost likable psychopaths narrators stem from Highsmith's masterpiece.
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When it comes to crime and thrillers in Bollywood, there is no one better than Sriram Raghavan.
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It is possible I'm missing the point by complaining that Hollywood doesn't make serious adult thrillers anymore.
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For example, 228563 is steamy romantic movies, 222856 is supernatural thrillers, and 2275405 is Korean TV shows.
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He did, and the end result is one of the best thrillers of the last few decades.
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We've seen thrillers centered on women before, but usually there's a dead woman setting off the action.
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The company is planning to publish 21 BookShots in 2016, including thrillers, science fiction, mysteries and romances.
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His work covers a variety of genres, from dark thrillers, to horror, to YA fantasy and beyond.
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From creepy thrillers and ambitious memoirs to fun fiction and lighthearted novels, this list has it all.
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Instead, a dive into 2017's crop of thrillers reveals an even more disturbing kind of villain.
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When I was teaching myself to write thrillers, I closely studied Sara Paretsky's detective V. I. Warshawski.
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In animation, thrillers and romantic comedies, a cake was vulnerable, and usually a sign of imminent disaster.
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I relish thrillers but find that many start brilliantly then collapse when the initial trick is unveiled.
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Ross Douthat Normal human beings read thrillers or romances on vacation; newspaper columnists assign themselves political polemics.
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It feels like, as an audience, we've been trained by All the President's Men and other thrillers.
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This month&aposs list lauds a diverse group of psychological thrillers and self-improvement guides, among others.
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As such, the show has invited the type of fan theorizing one usually sees with thrillers and mysteries.
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Though he started with small, low-budget thrillers like Following and Memento, Nolan rapidly became a blockbuster director.
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And then more recently, it kind of coincided with my personal love of sci-fi films and thrillers.
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In the United States, it was largely relegated to the political fringe or the subject of Hollywood thrillers.
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For the uninitiated, "Gialli" were ultra-stylized thrillers that reigned in Italian cinema in the 1960s and 1970s.
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She is the stuff of outlandish thrillers, neck-deep in intrigue — the kind of character stories happen to.
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He got his start in Hollywood as a screenwriter, penning scripts for low-budget thrillers and horror movies.
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You know that bloody, brutal, every-man-for-himself shootout at the end of all those action thrillers?
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From two Stephen King thrillers to Disney's big "Frozen" sequel, here's what we're looking forward to this fall.
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And while these films were supposed to be thrillers, they make being online back then seem positively quaint.
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Additionally, this summer saw the breakout success of low-budget thrillers Lights Out, Don't Breathe, and The Shallows.
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As you'd probably guess, I've always been drawn to science-fiction stories, as well as mysteries and thrillers.
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A new novel from Colson Whitehead, an oral history of World War II, heart-pounding thrillers and more.
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If you like tricky psychological thrillers, or you like the look and feel of FX's "Fargo," try this.
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As for the following games, I personally feel as if they are going to be thrillers as well.
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After Regeni died, she would sit with Sayad watching thrillers on TV, saying, ''That's exactly how it is!
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To all appearances, the animated comedy "Spies in Disguise" is just another a rollicking sendup of superspy thrillers.
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Miranda, who writes thrillers and young-adult novels, is the kind of author that publishers usually call midlist.
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It's difficult to write about television like this—adult crime thrillers—because, inevitably, it means ruining plot twists.
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The protagonists of Perry's ingenious thrillers are usually skilled at devising schemes for getting out of awkward situations.
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In addition to your action-adventure novels and thrillers, you write fantasy novels under the name James Clemens.
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Genre—sci-fi, thrillers, whatever—is the five milliliters of sugar that helps a heady plot go down.
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He spent the early 30s in a critical slumps, and came back with successful British thrillers in 1934.
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A prolific writer, many of Stephen's best-selling thrillers like Carrie and The Shining have been adapted into films.
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From fellow sexy thrillers to obsession-worthy anthologies and upcoming Netflix dramas, many shows share You's outlook on love.
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"Even the most failed of erotic thrillers still present active, overtly sexual, overtly ambitious, driven women," she tells me.
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To protect them from harm, Brevillier adopted technology more common in sci-fi thrillers than homes: iris scan recognition.
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If you love British TV shows, or thrillers in general, you'll definitely be intrigued by the 31-second teaser.
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Read: New thrillers present women and girls who refuse the roles of passive victim, staid detective or femme fatale.
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Three of this year's best literary thrillers also tackle complicated women narrators and the murderesses who consume their thoughts.
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So, unlike in most psychological thrillers, the fun doesn't come in guessing who's good, who's evil, and who's hallucinating.
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It goes without saying that Black Mirror is one of the most bewitching sci-fi thrillers we currently have.
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But I know what you're asking: When I walk to a shelf full of thrillers, who are the best?
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Screenwriters might cull a few thrillers from the text — and populate them with real-life heroes, fools and traitors.
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The eight new films will span genres from thrillers to horror, and will be produced in multiple Indian languages.
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I love a clever psychological thriller, although I tend to avoid crime novels and thrillers altogether while I'm writing.
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Finally, if fall weather is inspiring you to curl up indoors with a book, here are six new thrillers.
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Check out this month's list of books, which include nonfiction exposés, crime-thrillers, and poignant examinations of modern culture.
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It was an interpretation of a reality that social thrillers would later dismantle and inhabit with more stylish clarity.
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Yet the house's horrors — weird attic rooms and a weirder neighbor — simply bring in aspects of other, routine thrillers.
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As sequels to sci-fi action thrillers showcasing giant metallic fighters go, "Pacific Rim Uprising" is adroit and enjoyable.
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Finally, speaking of thrillers, you may recall Ragnar Jonasson's "Snowblind" taking a paragraph in this newsletter some months back.
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But "The President Is Missing" belongs to a long tradition of chief executives devouring thrillers, mysteries and detective stories.
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That kind of game-playing is practically a given for television thrillers these days, but "The Americans" mostly abstains.
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At the start of Wendy Walker's new entrant in the Thrillers With Unreliable Narrators sweepstakes, Cassandra Tanner returns home.
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Netflix released a limited amount of original thrillers this year, and they&aposve received mixed reviews across the board.
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That said, I enjoy thrillers, science fiction, graphic novels, dystopian fiction, cyberpunk, sports books (especially anything by Roger Angell).
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Here's the optimistic one: What is in Meyer's wheelhouse is incredibly disturbing body horror, and that's great for thrillers.
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The selection of books is very diverse, too, from classic novels and decades-old travelogues to modern thrillers and romances.
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Filmmakers mined raves' trance-inducing beats and light shows as the backdrop for thrillers, crime capers, documentaries, and love stories.
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Over the last few years, Stetson has also been moving into film composing, working in everything from Westerns to thrillers.
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And from the paranormal fright-fests and the psychological thrillers to the classics, that's what a good horror movie does.
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When it comes to plots that keep you physically stuck in one place, thrillers have the highest frequency of magnetism.
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This week, the Quad is screening a series of the blood-spattered, sultry Italian thrillers from the 1960s and '70s.
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I make myself watch action films and horror and thrillers, and they don't scare me, but it's too much... energy.
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In terms of horror or thrillers, I was more attuned to '70s conspiracy films, like The Parallax View or Klute.
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They are using faith to anchor genre films, from psychological thrillers to science fiction, with narratives that keep audiences guessing.
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"We need to stop talking about diversity like it's a category: romcoms, thrillers… diverse," Yomi wryly says, before pausing, exasperated.
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I was more thinking of 80s and 90s thrillers—like Single White Female—but these may be riffing off Hitchcock.
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I think you'll find that his are some of the only thrillers involving tech stocks chicanery you'll find online anywhere.
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If you like foreign political thrillers with main characters so icy they'll freeze to your tongue, try this Australian import.
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Produced in France, the series dryly pokes fun at the universal themes of self-serious espionage thrillers and bureaucratic ineptitude.
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Fans of international thrillers no longer need to rely strictly on the observations of gumshoes who are just passing through.
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"There are books like gangster thrillers that have huge body counts, where men just go down like dominoes," she says.
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Plenty of thrillers (including those on this list) have had higher stakes, but few are as totally engrossing as this.
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So these action thrillers were the first books I read that filled my head with fantasies of love and courtship.
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The list is mostly books by white and African-American authors, ranging from obscure literary fiction to pulpy popular thrillers.
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Thrillers love to notate and record only surfaces; they gorge on named things, turning realism into the expertise of signification.
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There are many writers of best-selling thrillers out there, but few are as savvy about television as Harlan Coben.
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"Magpie Murders" is a double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don't often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers.
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This week in books at Vox, we looked at Tana French's literary thrillers and why they are so, so good.
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Netflix released a number of original thrillers this year, but not all of them have been a hit with critics.
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Since real-life politics are pretty damn frightening the best political thrillers don't actually offer moviegoers an escape from reality.
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Let's just say political thrillers were all the rage in the '70s thanks to President Nixon as this list shows.
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Instead, we settled on a much more diverse set of favorites, ranging from supernatural thrillers to leather-clad action games.
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By contrast, in American horrors and thrillers, a woman who has been sexualized onscreen is usually the first to die.
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The Sundance series, whose third season debuts tonight, is based on a series of crime thrillers written by Joe Lansdale.
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Taylor is adapting the movie script from Carreyrou's 2018 book, Bad Blood, which proved that business books can, indeed, be thrillers.
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The White Road by Sarah Lotz Sarah Lotz has written some really intriguing thrillers, such as The Three and Day Four.
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For Paramount Pictures yesterday, that meant an assortment of different movies, from comedies and thrillers to clever, tongue-in-cheek satires.
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Roundup There has never been a more exciting or challenging time for women who write and read thrillers and crime novels.
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Refinery29: You have a lot of horror movies and thrillers on your roster, including the upcoming movie about the Slender Man.
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Esmail says he was hooked by the show's similarities to the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s, and binged it three times.
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Righteous revenge and ironic justice are common drivers of horror movie plots, from slashers to home-invasion thrillers to torture-porn.
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As exciting as political thrillers and historical series are, I'm still crossing my fingers for a Dexter reboot any day now.
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You're burnt out on predictable thrillers and paint-by-numbers romances, and you're in the mood for something a little odd.
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Parents will do anything for their children—it's a trope we often see play out in revenge/rescue thrillers like Taken.
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By now, thrillers like Philip Kerr's have become a genre in themselves and, more to the point, a voyage in themselves.
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North Carolina, meanwhile, has now two won two thrillers in two weeks following last Saturday's 37-36 comeback win against Pittsburgh.
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Since her role in "Garden State," Natalie Portman has received critical acclaim for her work in action films, dramas, and thrillers.
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He read a lot, mostly thrillers and science fiction, pulp paperbacks he bought from secondhand bookshops for a dollar or less.
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"If I get a chance I will focus more on making movies like, let's say, thrillers or maybe comedies," he adds.
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During the course of his lengthy career, Leonardo DiCaprio has starred in a broad range of films, from thrillers to romances.
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His first boss at J. Walter Thompson was James Patterson, who had not yet become the best-selling author of thrillers.
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This year marks the 60th anniversary of two iconic film noir thrillers: Orson Welles' Touch of Evil and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.
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Shudder Lets You Stream Them Year-Round The streaming platform offers thrillers and horror films of all kinds, domestic and foreign.
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We've seen the heroes of mystery-thrillers worry about their investigations putting loved ones in danger, but heroines not so much.
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That is evidenced by a sequence of spy thrillers, the most recent was "Knight and Day" in 2010 with Tom Cruise.
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Physically, John might as well be Jack Reacher, the invincible hulk who wanders through Lee Child's best-selling series of thrillers.
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Similarly, my taste in thrillers seems to going back in time: Eric Ambler, and the earlier Elmore Leonard and le Carré.
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In this way, they are distinct from zombie thrillers, which are usually premised on the spread of some zombie-making disease.
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They are not thrillers, because how could we, after actually living through the pain and fear, find any thrill in it?
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Scream in the privacy of your own home: "Get Out," one of the year's most hair-raising thrillers, arrives for streaming.
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Mr. Clinton, a longtime reader of Mr. Patterson's breathless thrillers, was game, so Mr. Barnett took the idea to Mr. Patterson.
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Critic Score: 92%Audience Score: 81%The Lifetime-turned-Netflix show is based on a series of thrillers by Caroline Kepnes.
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Here are some of the best and worst Netflix original thrillers of the year, according to critic scores on Rotten Tomatoes.
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With movies like Body Heat and Fatal Attraction, erotic thrillers reached their peak in the '80s — when Earthquake Bird is set.
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Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Killing Eve flipped spy cat-and-mouse thrillers—and lesbian-adjacent psychodrama tropes—completely upside down.
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"If I was a smart person, I should write more thrillers — they pay me far more" than children's books, he said.
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Corupe: Yes, House of The Devil (2009) seemed to kick off a wave of new Satanic thrillers over the last decade.
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Tippi Hedren made two thrillers with Alfred Hitchcock: the famous The Birds (1963) and its less notorious follow-up, Marnie (1964).
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The 18 movies screening at MoMA show renewed commitment to a range of genres, from documentary to thrillers to historical fiction.
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There are more twists and turns of fate in the journey of one of these gold coins than in most thrillers.
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Since the spring (almost summer!) is upon us, it's time to break out the juicy sagas, the rom-coms, the "unputdownable" thrillers.
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Behold, a broad selection of 2019's new releases, from thrillers to romances to literary fiction, from buzzy to under-the-radar.
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Since thrillers often make for the most propulsive beach-reads, we've already devoted an entire list to gathering this year's best choices.
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This makes them representative of something that is seemingly mistrusted and despised by the makers of erotic thrillers: the independent working woman.
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Viewed today, erotic thrillers are bitterly cynical about gender relations; they ask us to assume the worst of both men and women.
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Excluding romance novels and thrillers, none of which said "A Novel" on the cover, the proportion rose to more than 80 percent.
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Why bother with thrillers when the daily news has more shocking twists than you could sensibly fit into a work of fiction?
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It's the archetype of the classic thrillers of the 1970s, a trend that has carried on straight through to the Bourne movies.
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For a writer of violent action thrillers, Taylor Sheridan has an unusual fixation with the inelegance of jurisdiction within American law enforcement.
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Sara Is Missing and A Normal Lost Phone are smartphone thrillers that are made to speak to us on a personal level.
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For fans of Neeson's revenge thrillers, Netflix also has the complete run of the short-lived NBC TV series based on Taken.
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In a word rife with true and fictionalized crime thrillers, our culture seems almost exclusively interested in the guilty: Who did it?
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The forbidden emotions and desires of Jo's beloved, forbidden sensationalistic thrillers run through everything, try as the characters might to disavow them.
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Hardy: I was obsessed with ghost stories as a kid and watched a lot of thrillers and horror films as a teenager.
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Even in the '50s, the heyday of Hitchcock's thrillers, horror hadn't fully developed into what we considered a "true horror" film today.
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Psychological thrillers like "Rosemary's Baby" were still prominent, but violent and gory films like "Night of the Living Dead" entered the culture.
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It wasn't so long ago that psychological thrillers laced with a healthy dose of deviant sex appeal were relatively common in Hollywood.
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As in a lot of globe-trotting thrillers, these (mostly real) locations are attractive backdrops for the frenetically spinning story and characters.
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When we published our special Summer Thrills issue last month, we asked you to name your favorite thrillers on our Facebook page.
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On their surface, the Fifty Shades movies are erotic thrillers; viewed through the lens of Dakota Johnson's considerable talent, they're hostage videos.
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Like most characters in thrillers, many of the May Mothers have secrets, some of which dilute the urgency of the investigation's timeline.
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But this summer and fall will bring, depending on the vicissitudes of publishing industry timing, the last of those Obama-era thrillers.
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Insider counts down the top 10 movies people were interested in this year along with the top comedies, thrillers, and romantic movies.
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If thrillers tend to follow a narrative arc that looks like a curve, the Safdie brothers prefer one shaped like a coil.
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A fictionalized version of him became the shadowy master assassin of the Jason Bourne thrillers by Robert Ludlum, and in various films.
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This January, you&aposll find plenty of page-turners, from engaging thrillers and cultural commentaries to thought-provokers and grisly fairy tales.
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WHAT I LOVE For the best-selling author of thrillers, buying a spooky old Victorian seemed a little too on the nose.
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To win the championship, Virginia not only had to fend off the determined Red Raiders and win thrillers against Purdue and Auburn.
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In police procedural thrillers, there's a kind of grammar that people are quite relaxed about, and if you break that grammar, it's shocking.
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In a literary world populated with thrillers boasting twists "you'll never see coming," is it so awful to be comforted by the predictable?
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Like many psychological thrillers before it, USA's new series The Sinner is more about why someone commits a murder than the murder itself.
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And similar to iTunes, the TV app features curated "Collections," which are thematic groupings of content, like political shows or thrillers, for instance.
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Crichton, who passed away in 2008, is mostly known as the author of techno-thrillers such as The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park.
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These stories make rape seem removed from our everyday world, like this kind of violence only happens in fantasy epics or psychosexual thrillers.
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Unlike normal thrillers, films in the "psychological thriller" category don't rely on cheap tricks and jump shots to get under the viewer's skin.
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Director Oliver Stone's Snowden turns one of the most gripping real-life political thrillers in recent memory into an awards season-ready blockbuster.
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Lively's look is very different from how we're used to seeing her, but it looks like she's getting more into thrillers these days.
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Stories range from political thrillers to inspirational dramas to good old-fashioned sex comedies — for which there is no shortage of story possibilities.
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The producers had American crime thrillers like 24 in mind, but it reminds me more of Arrested Development or a Coen brothers film.
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Netflix keeps spending a lot of money on thrillers from big stars that don't necessarily seem like they're designed for a big audience.
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From documentaries to psychological thrillers, each of these films also focuses on individuals who have brushes with the darkness and charisma of cults.
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Following her death, the show turns into a whodunit and loses the thorny, twisted relationship that set it apart from other political thrillers.
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Calling all fans of Pretty Little Liars: Karen McManus' bestselling YA novel will fill the need for suspense thrillers set in high school.
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For the weekly Reboot segment, they take a look at two debut thrillers from filmmakers who went on to bigger and better things.
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Traci Lords, who plays Wanda, worked as a underage porn star before escaping and starring in a string of cult films and thrillers.
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Later this year they are releasing sci-fi thrillers ("Equals"), Irish gang dramas ("Free Fire") and coming-of-age stories ("Morris From America").
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Clinton, 71, says his reading interests span history, politics and policy but he admits to having a special weakness for page-turning thrillers.
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The two companies will collaborate to develop and produce the scripted podcasts that will include thrillers, murder mysteries, and science fiction audio-plays.
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There have been exceptions, of course, but the epic hero journeys, the buddy comedies, the spy thrillers—most of them revolved around dudes.
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There were legal thrillers, murder mysteries, spy stories, and psychological horror—genres where having a real person on screen helped, or was necessary.
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PARIS — In the French filmmaker Luc Besson's thrillers and science-fiction movies, the women are serious, smart and strong, occasionally stronger than men.
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Like so many contemporary thrillers, The Accountant is packed with revelations and reveals, all of which the movie hopes you won't see coming.
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I don't care for thrillers that spend every other chapter in the mind of a psychopath who murders prostitutes with a potato peeler.
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Self-styled intelligent readers read for plot every bit as much as those who plow through mass-market paperback thrillers and romances do.
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Cameron, a retired United States marshal, has had some success with his own thrillers; "Brute Force" hit the e-book list last year.
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When I'm writing, I read a lot of thrillers: Michael Connelly, Harlan Coben, Gillian Flynn, Tami Hoag, Lisa Gardner, Gregg Hurwitz, Dennis Lehane.
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There is now more TV than ever before: More dramas, more comedies, more thrillers, more travel shows, more comedy specials — more, more, more.
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Davies explained that plot-based fiction, especially crime/thrillers, historical and women's fiction with plenty of twists and turns, tend to work best.
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This list of the best political thrillers is full of do-gooder journalists, conspiracy theories, and Meryl Streep as both hero and villain.
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Mr. Peele was in town in part to present a film series on social thrillers he selected for the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Otherworldly Science fiction and fantasy thrillers are often seen as frivolous, action-packed page turners, as critically dismissed as they are compulsively consumed.
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Many prominent erotic thrillers were written and directed by men, and it's clear that their softcore gaze is mostly trained on the female body.
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With The Nightingale, Kent has adapted a history of rape-revenge thrillers, like Ms. 45 and I Spit on Your Grave, to different ends.
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"It's a joy to encounter a suspenseful book whose turns lurk, rather than lumber, around the corner," Sarah Lyall writers in her thrillers roundup.
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The first three books were taut, fast-paced thrillers, but beginning with A Feast for Crows, the pace of the main story slowed down.
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The BBC has often devoted this slot to period dramas such as "Poldark" and "Howard's End", but the focus has shifted somewhat to thrillers.
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John Grisham, an author of legal thrillers, has even chosen "a third-tier, for-profit law school" as the villain in his latest work.
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Deaver notes that there's a lack of thrillers about the videogame industry, which is strange considering that videogames are now bigger business than movies.
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When we authors who write murder mysteries and thrillers create villains, you really don't have to sketch out the bad guy in much detail.
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The books are thrillers, but along the way, we can learn and experience the challenges and heady opportunities of what competitive governance looks like.
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And when I asked others if they'd seen these action-thrillers it was remarkable how many of them had to actively think about it.
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Jackie Jorgenson, an actor and filmmaker, suggested that PG-13 thrillers that were so consistently popular for the past few years may have peaked.
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It's against this backdrop that Alan Furst has placed the 15th of his highly acclaimed thrillers set in Europe during the 1930s and '40s.
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With the "Last Policeman" trilogy, Mr. Winters carved out an unusual niche for himself: writing intricately plotted, high-concept thrillers with heady philosophical undercurrents.
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The Bond franchise has taken on new sophistication in this century, while higher-end thrillers like Syriana complement the satire of Burn After Reading.
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In fact, Fatal Instinct achieves most of what it sets out to do, using audience expectations associated with erotic thrillers to tee up laughs.
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Or when you pick up Karin Slaughter, my friend who writes these thrillers—they're deeply disturbing, and they really are all about woman-hatred.
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Navarro believes that action-packed crime thrillers or procedurals can sometimes lose sight of the emotional impact that investigations can have on FBI agents.
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So many thrillers concern the gradual unearthing of long-buried mysteries whose facts are known only to a few, or only imperfectly by many.
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" But he struggled for years to find a worthy follow-up before re-establishing himself with hit supernatural thrillers like "Insidious" and "The Conjuring.
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While some of the Purge movies have been unexpectedly good, not just as horror-thrillers but as movies, this is not one of them.
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For the adventurous among us, that means cranking the tension up to its maximum with the best of the best in heart-wrenching thrillers.
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Here comes Bad Santa with a sack of the year's best crime and mystery thrillers, full of psychos and sickos for the naughty kids.
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" He added, "Of such tidbits are the warp and woof of espionage thrillers manufactured, and Wise supplies exactly the most satisfying amount of them.
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Queries from passionate readers of all genres welcome: fiction, crime, thrillers, memoirs, essays, art books, biographies, children's books, history, audiobooks, graphic novels, short stories.
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Special Report: The Year in Sports LeBron James was present at two Game 7 thrillers in 2016 but played in only one of them.
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And, despite fears that the series could be an anticlimax after the remarkable World Cup final, most of the five Test matches were thrillers.
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Affleck is also no stranger to sexually charged thrillers, after he and Rosamund Pike starred as an unhappy married couple in 2014's Gone Girl.
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It was coming after Paramount pointed out its investment in medium-budget thrillers, including the new Cloverfield movie, coming October 28th, and Darren Aronofsky's Mother!
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It didn't just provide a template for social thrillers and zombies; it also inspired a subtle and important way of integrating race into those stories.
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Megan Abbott has made a career of writing thrillers that focus on the relationships women have with each other, and their ability to commit violence.
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Martians Abroad by Carrie Vaughn Carrie Vaughn is best known for her urban fantasy thrillers, but with her next novel, she's going full science fiction.
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And, as HBO's adaptations of Big Little Lies and the forthcoming Sharp Objects demonstrate so aptly, thrillers also make fantastic fodder for prestige TV shows.
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From thrillers, to comedies, documentaries and TV shows, it's all there for you as you shake off the summer and settle into a new season.
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The series is a warm, mustachioed version of your favorite crime thrillers, as if you took Charade and added a few ironic cable knit sweaters.
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This is familiar ground for sci-fi thrillers, but none have taken quite the same approach as Observation, from No Code (published by Devolver Digital).
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This highly unique, multi-genre film is "one of the most intense indie thrillers of the year, with two standout performances," according to Chris Olson.
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The master of suspense directed some of the greatest thrillers of all time, tapping into people's fears with movies like The Birds, Vertigo, and Psycho.
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Rowling once told fans that she couldn't even get books published under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, which she used for some thrillers she wrote.
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Like the best claustrophobic thrillers, the film keeps finding clever new ways to complicate what initially seems like a limited setting with limited story options.
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Shyamalan's psychological horror/thrillers often suggest that our senses can deceive us, and that what we think we know about the world is often wrong.
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They range from tight thrillers to sprawling epics to searing indictments of the system, featuring criminals, cops, double-crosses, elaborate schemes, gunfights, and much more.
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In his prime, which was the paranoid Nixon '70s, the excessive Reagan '80s and just a touch beyond, Mr. De Palma made thrillers that thrilled.
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Critic's Notebook You hate to give in to national stereotypes, but a pair of recent engrossing European thrillers fulfill certain expectations about their home countries.
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One of the best NYC retrospective line-ups of the year, it features action films, thrillers, romantic comedies, outrageous sci-fi, horror, and melodrama alike.
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This year even the summer, traditionally a time for escapism — lightweight thrillers and science fiction, inexpensive reality shows — has taken on a more serious cast.
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Plus, Ideas for What to Watch Tonight: Non-Depressing Documentaries on Netflix Stream These Dark Political Thrillers The 100 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now
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If you are shooting spy thrillers throughout urban centers in Europe and North America, respectfully, they don't have a lot of exotic aspect to it.
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Posters advertise highbrow films in the official Cannes selection, as well as karate movies, horror titles, psychological thrillers, war movies and boxing or wrestling titles.
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Mr. Whitten, who also wrote nearly a dozen political thrillers and horror and science fiction novels, figured in a major First Amendment controversy in 2000.
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Plus, Ideas for What to Watch Tonight: The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now Stream These Dark Political Thrillers Non-Depressing Documentaries on Netflix
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Plus, Ideas for What to Watch Tonight: The 100 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now Stream These Dark Political Thrillers Non-Depressing Documentaries on Netflix
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FRANKFURT — Tax collectors do not usually loom large in espionage thrillers, nor are Germany and Switzerland often portrayed as bitter adversaries in the spy game.
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The author of dozens of best-selling thrillers talked about his latest Netflix adaptation and why the most gripping stories are rooted in everyday life.
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In response, King grinned that he had, instead, read every novel Dean Koontz had ever written — Dean Koontz being a notoriously lowbrow writer of thrillers.
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HONG KONG — Ringo Lam, a Hong Kong film director best known for gritty crime thrillers like the 22018 classic "City on Fire," died on Dec.
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Better still, Barão's fights are almost always thrillers, and against a fighter like the Korean Zombie, the chance of an unforgettable fight is almost certain.
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Mere weeks after Jordan Peele drops his second horror film Us, the Oscar-winning writer-director will drop another special treat for fans of social thrillers.
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One of the most effective ways he does this is by taking popular genres (mysteries, thrillers, sci-fi, superheroes, war) and rethinking what they can do.
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I can read only so many thrillers in a row before I assume that every knock at my door is a murderer coming to get me.
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Fans of high-paced domestic thrillers will tear through this one, especially as Anne and Marco learn they been keeping years-long secrets from each other.
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But although Destroyer has plenty in common with classic crime thrillers, it also stands as the rare film to cast a woman in the lead role.
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He's the star of the Jason Bourne action series, various high-budget thrillers, and a surprising number of films where he must be rescued from space.
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These were psychological thrillers that were deeply concerned about women, and interested in watching them escape whatever lackluster narrative arc they happened to be trapped in.
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Donen was also acclaimed for sparkling, sophisticated romantic comedies and thrillers, reteaming with Audrey Hepburn for 1963's Charade and 1967's Two for the Road.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 80%What critics said: "'Titans' borrows from police procedurals, action thrillers and teenage dramas, but it goes grayer, quieter and more psychological.
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It's an anxious film, but it's a pleasure to see how director Kim Joon-Sung imagines tactical, weaponized dream logic in the tradition of Korean thrillers.
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I've seen one too many dystopian, post-apocalyptic thrillers recently based on worst-case, extreme-weather scenarios, but too few about saving mankind from these fates.
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After the "Matrix" franchise, Reeves kept a lower profile, acting in rom-coms like "Something's Gotta Give" and in crime thrillers like "Constantine" and "Street Kings."
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And his novels, whether they are kaleidoscopic histories, political thrillers, generational sagas or slapstick comedies, are remarkable for their ability to inhabit a host of perspectives.
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Plus, More Ideas for What to Watch Tonight: The 100 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now Stream These Dark Political Thrillers Non-Depressing Documentaries on Netflix
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The latest of these is The Passengers from John Marrs, a British author specializing in techno-thrillers best enjoyed on a beach or in an airplane.
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This reflects real life all too well, although Brown (a practicing family therapist and the author of several other suspense thrillers) leaves the parallels nicely understated.
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The films of Pedro Almodóvar swerve among camp, melodrama, psychosexual thrillers and jet black comedies, a combo that inspires the Puerto Rican-born choreographer Antonio Ramos.
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The film and television side is packed with comic-book adaptations ("Watchmen"), horror ("The Haunting of Hill House"), thrillers ("Karen Sisco") and sci-fi ("Wayward Pines").
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It's a mystery, more or less, and it comes in the 10-episode package that we recognize as the preferred format for serialized thrillers these days.
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Those who are familiar with such classic Harris historical thrillers as "Imperium" will, then, settle into the opening pages of "The Second Sleep" alert for clues.
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But a slew of other critics accused the film of imitating thrillers of the past without being a memorable or strong film in its own right.
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It includes a few thrillers, but also some serious nonfiction books like "Hillbilly Elegy" by J. D. Vance and "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi.
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Born David Cornwell, in 1931, le Carré has spent more than half a century traversing the globe, gathering material for richly textured and psychologically complex thrillers.
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Not since Universal&aposs thrillers "Us" and "Get Out" have I experienced such visceral audience reactions, making "Q&S" a must-see in a crowded theater.
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All letters from all stripes of passionate readers are welcome: Lovers of fiction, thrillers, memoirs, essays, cozies, art books, biographies, children's books, history, audiobooks, graphic novels.
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These days, Ms. Rice is most interested in conspiracy theories, reading spy thrillers and watching what she calls "high quality TV" like "The Crown" on Netflix.
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Western horrors and thrillers operate with and against Puritanical values — evil is innate and must be purged, purity is often defiled and can never be recovered.
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There were political thrillers and long-adored reboots and police procedurals and dystopian Westerns and dark comedies and teen dramas, each one rightfully vying for screen time.
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Netflix is no stranger to either suspenseful crime thrillers or edgy teen dramas and its new show "Quicksand" seems to be the latest in combining those genres.
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The film gives us the answer too soon, choosing a more straightforward horror route rather than living in the murky grey areas that define great psychological thrillers.
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Netflix said that thrillers like BBC Two's "The Fall," horror shows like its own "Hemlock Grove" and science fiction like its "Sense8" were binged on most rapidly.
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We compiled an eclectic list, ranging from actually cool self-help books to gripping thrillers, composed of what money diarists were reading when they wrote their entries.
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Espionage thrillers made during the cold war pitted American spies against KGB operatives, and the characters pursued each other across the historic sites of the Arab world.
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He also revealed that he wants to make at least four more social thrillers in the next ten years, and I graciously provided him with some ideas.
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This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Donna Tartt and Celeste Ng. At long last, South Korea's preeminent author of psychological thrillers has arrived Stateside.
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And some horror movie experts would argue that some of horror films nominated for best picture aren't even "true horror" films, but rather thrillers with horror elements.
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While many reviewers lumped this film in with the "rape/revenge" thrillers of the 70s, there's a lot more going on in this powerful, bloody action flick.
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From comedies to thrillers, a lot of films have made their debut over the past decade, but not all of them have been a hit with viewers.
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Although he's written thrillers about Islamist terror networks (A Most Wanted Man) and Big Pharma (The Constant Gardener), the Cold War remains the major le Carré theme.
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From IRA noirs (The Crying Game) to teenage terrorists (Nocturama) to Arapaho ice-westerns (Wind River), we've compiled a list of the 11 best thrillers on Netflix.
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Over the years, Julia Roberts has built an impressive career that spans across a variety of genres, including romantic comedies, dramas, crime thrillers, and even fantasy films.
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The Book Review Podcast Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music In The New York Times Book Review, Charles Finch reviews several books from the fall's crop of thrillers.
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Luckily, it doesn't actually feel that limited since Walt Disney Studios and Walt Disney Television create everything from animated kids' movies to action and sci-fi thrillers.
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The politically charged thrillers take place in a near-future that annually turns into a battle royale for a 12-hour period when crime is legally unenforced.
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True to his style, Fast cuts quickly between the scenes, giving us just enough to keep us on edge as we attempt to comprehend his surreal thrillers.
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Sci-fi, murder mystery, teen romance, and true-crime thrillers are what Craig calls "global genres," the types of shows that inspire devoted fandom and travel easily.
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And as the makers of political thrillers like "House of Cards" and "Scandal" know all too well, television must ratchet up the stakes lest viewers lose interest.
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I love to read any genre of fiction except thrillers, books over 800 pages long (unless they are written by my friends), science fiction and silly romances.
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She's returning to her childhood home on the coast of England with enough baggage to fill a beat-up rucksack and at least two or three thrillers.
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He has spent time in leagues that have folded (Continental Basketball Association, United States Basketball League), coaching teams that no longer exist (Rapid City Thrillers, Florida Sharks).
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Yes, comedies are regularly larded with "old folks can't tweet" and "these darn kids and their 'texting'" jokes, while espionage thrillers invariably serve up hot webcam action.
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And in both her thrillers and her historical novels, she occasionally leans on the sort of ready-made language that merely carries this sort of story along.
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He has written thrillers, dabbled in historical fiction and was last heard from in 2016 as the vice-presidential running mate to the Libertarian nominee, Gary Johnson.
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Until now, dark and twisted thrillers of in the vein of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl have dominated the bestseller charts, like Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.
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Moreover, Western media turn minor stories — Russian trolls purchasing Facebook ads or US politicians meeting with the Russian ambassador — into veritable James Bond thrillers that ultimately help Russia.
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How about giving us access to a tab with the master list so we can easily filter things like "Steamy Romantic Movies, "Supernatural Thrillers" and "Korean TV shows.
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This won't seem unusual to moviegoers old enough to remember the 1990s and the 2000s, when science fiction thrillers starring Keanu Reeves regularly showed up in wide release.
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These were movies starring women and people of color, in genres like period dramas and social thrillers and movie musicals, and people streamed to theaters to see them.
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But the style of Halloween is also reminiscent of early 1970s giallo movies — dark Italian thrillers that often popped up in American drive-ins and grindhouses back then.
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Bookstores these days can be dispiriting places, with their novelty merchandise and beside-the-point coffee bars, their groaning piles of discounted thrillers and dwindling numbers of customers.
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That question has been preoccupying literary thrillers over the past few years, arguably beginning with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and peaking in 2012 with Gone Girl.
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And then there are psychological thrillers like Black Swan and The Machinist, which trap the viewer inside a character's breakdown without providing a complete picture of what's happening.
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If you like your psychological thrillers complete with blood-dripping lightbulbs, mysterious strangers, and plenty of shots of Jennifer Lawrence looking freaked out by stuff, Darren Aronofsky's mother!
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The comedian and former co-host of Key & Peele told the publication that he wants to unveil at least four more "social thrillers" in the next 10 years.
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If nothing else, it's also a reminder that in the realm of thrillers, the boring stick-in-the-mud personality is usually the one with the right idea.
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It's has a fantastic crew behind it Arrival is an exciting move for Villeneuve, who has been directing some really intriguing thrillers in the last couple of years.
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As the two men begin to connect the dots, the world of double agents and government conspiracies we have come to expect from political thrillers starts manifesting onscreen.
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"Scandal" Season 5 (coming to Netflix on Saturday) Watch if you like big monologues, Shondaland soaps that go to 11 and political thrillers with a lot of shouting.
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Books of The Times John Grisham has now written 29 legal thrillers and fought harder for truth, justice and the American way than anyone this side of Superman.
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The series privileges not only male auteurs, but also crime dramas, thrillers, and male-centered blockbusters over comedies and romances, and festival and cult hits over commercial ones.
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Not only does Mr. Robot set the bar for dystopian hacker suspense thrillers, it's also a great hacking show that's true to the culture and portrays technology authentically.
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British shows that hit it big in America tend to be raucous comedies ("Absolutely Fabulous"), genteel soap operas ("Downton Abbey") or historical re-enactments ("The Crown"), not thrillers.
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A Yi, who was a police officer in Jiangxi Province before writing thrillers, said in an interview that the crime novel might have exhausted its potential in China.
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We bring you Swedish thrillers and Jacobean mysteries and an alternate-reality jungle-infested 1920s Manhattan, assuming you like that kind of thing as much as we do.
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From profound personal narratives and epic conclusions to thrillers aplenty, there's no shortage of page-turning journeys, characters, and themes that tap into the depths of human nature.
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Over the next eight months, Lam would find himself the unwitting central character in a saga that would hardly feel out of place in one of his thrillers.
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He dropped out after two years to give the singer-songwriter thing a go, while working as an assistant to Donald Fine, a publisher of mid-list thrillers.
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Since then, Affleck has become a director of steady and satisfying thrillers, including "The Town" and "Argo," so why risk this backward step into the realm of beefcake?
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In retrospect, his choice of words was surprisingly honest, a rare acknowledgment in a medium that prizes originality of how deeply he was influenced by other popular thrillers.
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Perhaps most problematic, it was a touch too on-the-nose for the best-selling author of a few dozen thrillers to live in a spooky Victorian manse.
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Instead of seeing an exploration of desire through the more typically male filter that often drives thrillers, action, science fiction, and horror, we see it through female eyes.
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" Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 1): 82% What critics said: ""Titans" borrows from police procedurals, action thrillers and teenage dramas, but it goes grayer, quieter and more psychological.
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Caption: Daniel SuarezMichelle Sites Daniel Suarez has quickly established himself as the heir apparent to Michael Crichton with a string of fast-paced thrillers full of cutting-edge science.
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While Crichton is best known for his techno-thrillers such as Jurassic Park, Timeline, or Sphere, this feels more like his period-set Great Train Robbery or Pirate Latitudes.
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"The bodies pile up, as do the wry asides about what is and what is not good for the country," Sarah Lyall writes, reviewing the book alongside other thrillers.
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Sure, Tom Cruise races around Paris in a death-defying motorcycle/car chase in Mission Impossible: Fallout, but wouldn't you prefer your spy thrillers with a dash of humor?
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There's no shortage of shows that aim to be sweeping epics or psychological thrillers, so it was a relief to have Brooklyn Nine-Nine out there keeping it light.
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A play-by-play of some of 2015's top popcorn thrillers, action flicks and even Fifty Shades of Grey is recast with the characters of the Lego universe.
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The "good timing" part, as far as the film's producers are concerned, is that "The Night Manager" put viewers in the mood for Le Carré's globe-trotting spy thrillers.
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I love political thrillers, so I'm curious about ABC's "Designated Survivor," in which Kiefer Sutherland becomes the president after everyone else is killed at the State of the Union.
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In a plot twist typical of espionage thrillers, the individual responsible for Anwar's freedom is the same man who imprisoned him in 1998: newly-minted Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
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"The Travelers" does confirm what Mr. Pavone's first two books have established: that when it comes to quick-witted, breathless thrillers that trot the globe, his are top-tier.
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Comedy and Crime & Thrillers represent the most common genres at Apple, which has 23 upcoming shows on its slate, including a Kristen Wiig series and a "Time Bandits" series.
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Even with its conspicuous bumps, by the time it's over "The Commuter" delivers on a basic level, in what feels like a throwback to old-style, low-octane thrillers.
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A pacifist environmentalist and expert on Icelandic crime thrillers emerged on Thursday as Iceland's new prime minister, its fourth in two years, after three parties signed a coalition agreement.
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Though Contagion is nine years old, the film is currently eighth on the U.S. iTunes chart for all movie genres, and third on the chart for most popular thrillers.
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In his best-known films, thrillers like "Fatal Attraction" and "Basic Instinct," his polished but aggressive characters came to define a certain American machismo of the 1980s and '90s.
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If it's still too soon, Apple TV+ and Disney+ are bringing a slew of new thrillers that are sure to get you screaming on Twitter just like GOT did.
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"I've been reading a lot," he said: mainly thrillers, but also a book on the artist Amedeo Modigliani, one that inspired him to travel to an exhibition in London.
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"Childrens Hospital" staples Rob Corddry, Malin Akerman, Lake Bell, and Ken Marino also appear in what's sure to be a nutty, knowing riff on over-the-top international thrillers.
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Netflix's "House of Cards" has always distinguished itself among political thrillers by a worldview so cynical it's practically cartoonish, but the show's fifth season was perhaps its darkest yet.
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"I don't need or want one particular spot," said Mr. Coben, who signed a deal last year with Netflix to turn several of his thrillers into series and movies.
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There's no lack of bouncing breasts in erotic thrillers, but there is remarkably little pay-off when it comes to Michael Douglas showing skin in Fatal Attraction or Basic Instinct.
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The fact that Moretz chose the celebrate her birthday with a nod to the 2000s seems fitting, given that Greta also feels like an ode to thrillers of that era.
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In an interview with The Verge in March, Peele explained that he wanted to use the story to help change minds, saying that his next projects would be social thrillers.
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These are thrillers like Unfriended and this year's Searching that take place entirely on computer screens, confining their horrors to the spaces we spend most of our time gazing into.
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Director Darren Aronofsky, who also made famously unsettlingly psychological thrillers like Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan, has remained particularly tight-lipped about what exactly the film is about.
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Halloween season is finally upon us, so you might expect your streaming service of choice to be filled with dozens of new slasher flicks, gothic thrillers, and serial killer movies.
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Mysteries and thrillers won in 12 states, science fiction and fantasy won in five, and romance managed to overcome the company's structural bias against it to win in three more.
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A riff on Cold War spy thrillers, peppered with ruminations on a late-middle-aged man's many regrets, Counterpart is one of the more somber examples of the doppelgänger plot.
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Also present are the thrillers ("No Country for Old Men"), the comedies ("Raising Arizona") and the cult favorites ("The Big Lebowski"), laden with the Coens' pungent plots and morbid humor.
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Here's the thing about suspense thrillers, though: Once you've reached the end and all the secrets have spilled out, it's not always fun to go back and read them again.
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Washington (CNN)It is a scene ripped from Hollywood spy thrillers: Russian agents living and working among everyday, American citizens as cover for their true mission of stealing state secrets.
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Some films have approached this balance, though blockbusters they may not be: "Syriana" (2000) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (2012) were both political thrillers partially told from Arab and Pakistani viewpoints.
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The New York Asian Film Festival, which runs through July 9, always casts a commendably wide net, and this year's slate has coming-of-age stories, thrillers and romantic comedies.
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Blake Crouch's new novel Dark Matter will satisfy any cravings you might have for the late Michael Crichton's known techno-thrillers like Jurassic Park, Timeline, The Andromeda Strain, and others.
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The boat will be the main setting for many episodes, which take their cues as much from thrillers like "Dead Calm" and "Knife in the Water" as from horror fare.
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It's the kind of summer treat that will make you happy the art houses stay open during the long months when sci-fi spectaculars and action thrillers fill the multiplex.
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Vintcent decided to follow in the footsteps of Dick Francis, the late writer of popular thrillers set in the world of horse racing, but with Formula One as the backdrop.
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"We want to stretch our wings and show our brand of action can work in horror films, thrillers, dark comedies; it's not just for pure action genre movies," he said.
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In the tradition of all great noir thrillers, the incident includes a bad decision made by the ultimate victim and a regretful one made by the one who is spared.
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Eventually, Louisa decided that she might be able to help by writing stories for the popular press, and she soon discovered that the stories that sold most easily were thrillers.
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Here are just some of the most enthusiastic and considered answers you gave us: Any discussion of favorite thrillers has to include "The Day of the Jackal," by Frederick Forsyth.
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Girl on the Train doesn't have the cold, clinching nastiness of Ben Affleck's Gone Girl, but it has the voyeuristic impulse — deceptiveness, too — that's key to many good movie thrillers.
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The selection of movies skews slightly toward horror, but if you're a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, or crime thrillers, you'll likely find something to listen to here as well.
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She then had to choose between a copy of "Matilda," or a copy of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," one of the many James Bond thrillers written by Ian Fleming.
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Like other vigilante thrillers before it, the movie, directed by Brian A. Miller, rests on the notion that, with a little ingenuity and firepower, an ordinary man can fight crime.
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PARIS — Les femmes du cinéaste Luc Besson, celles qu'on voit dans ses films de science-fiction et ses thrillers, sont sérieuses, intelligentes et fortes, parfois plus fortes que les hommes.
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There's certainly an appetite for action-oriented spy thrillers: Amazon released Jack Ryan last year, an adaptation of the Tom Clancy character that recently received a modern surge in popularity.
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Evelyn Anthony, a best-selling British novelist who transitioned from historical fiction to espionage thrillers, becoming one of the first female writers to explore the spy genre, died on Sept.
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If movies like Snowpiercer and Parasite could be described socially conscious horror, or "social thrillers," then The Platform might be termed a social nightmare, and an effective one, at that.
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But his work — mostly action thrillers of the James Bond-Indiana Jones kind, plus nonfiction accounts of his marine quests and a few children's books — made him a global celebrity.
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Erotic thrillers are explicitly indebted to noirs like The Maltese Falcon (1941), Double Indemnity (1944) — reimagined by Lawrence Kasdan in 1981 as Body Heat — and The Lady From Shanghai (1947).
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In light of a résumé skewed toward male-dominated thrillers, the Scottish director Paul McGuigan might seem an unlikely choice to guide a fading-siren weepie from page to screen.
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And it will be interesting to see what Amazon puts money into going forward after it made a deal with Blumhouse Productions in 2018 to produce a slate of thrillers.
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The past is shot in a way that's reminiscent of '70s and '80s thrillers — and scored that way, too, with some tracks lifted wholesale, from movies like Dressed to Kill.
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In the tradition of the best social thrillers, Get Out takes a topic that is often approached cerebrally — casual racism — and turns it into something you feel in your tummy.
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Famous for legal thrillers, many of which have been adapted into films — and most of which are on your father's bookshelf — Grisham has become a pillar of the American literary community.
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Like the best conspiracy thrillers, Get Out piles up uncomfortable situations and unsettling images to keep the audience off base, but keeps the mysteries unraveling steadily almost until the final moments.
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We're talking dark supernatural thrillers set at dance schools that aren't Black Swan, female-led heist movies that are't Ocean's 8, and musicals that aren't Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!.
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But no more: These days, there are plenty of psychological thrillers to pick from — many of them more sinister and more spine-chilling than Big Little Lies or even The Shining.
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Earlier this year, he told The Verge that he hoped to direct more of what he termed "social thrillers," a goal which aligns neatly with the mission of The Twilight Zone.
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These shows – Bodhi Dharma, Breathe, The Ministry, Powerplay, Mirzapur, Stardust, The Family Man, Vishpuri, Made in Heaven – will cut across subjects that generally succeed in India - drama, cricket, thrillers, religion etc.
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Actor Steven Seagal, star of crime thrillers Exit Wounds and Above the Law, just got cast in a new role designated by Russian President Vladimir Putin himself: the ministry's special representative.
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From memoirs that'll make you laugh out loud to creepy thrillers that'll keep you on your toes, this list has all the inspiration you need to find that perfect page-turner.
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He endured a messy, public divorce, and his reading tastes toggle between biographies of titans of sports and industry and paperback thrillers, the latest being "Flesh and Blood," by Patricia Cornwell.
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Noah Hawley, creator and showrunner of the television show "Fargo," wrote one of this summer's best-selling thrillers, "Before the Fall," about a private plane that mysteriously crashes into the Atlantic.
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From new series by creators Shonda Rhimes and Ryan Murphy to anime originals and thrillers based on novels, keep reading to see all the new series arriving on Netflix next year.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roger Federer returns to action under the lights at the U.S. Open on Monday with confidence after he breezed into the fourth round following two five-set thrillers.
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What about overbaked, mediocre thrillers trading on the marquee value of one or more big-name lead actors (almost always male), who, in turn, phone in performances of perfunctorily written roles?
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Like Netflix's Marvel series and Mr. Berlanti's DC series for the CW network, "Titans" borrows from police procedurals, action thrillers and teenage dramas, but it goes grayer, quieter and more psychological.
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But there was one project Harper didn't talk about: She was writing a murder mystery inspired by "Gone Girl," Agatha Christie and all the other thrillers she'd loved reading since childhood.
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In the tradition of the best classic social thrillers, Get Out takes a topic that is often approached cerebrally — casual racism — and turns it into something you feel in your tummy.
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After starring in the 2003 horror flick, Biel has gone on to star in other thrillers — most recently, in her Emmy-nominated performance in The Sinner, which she also executive produced.
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In a week that had quite a few blowouts, there were thrillers in Tennessee and San Francisco and there was a scoring resurgence for New England (which came with some caveats).
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The result, however, plays like a pallid version of the globetrotting spy thrillers with which we're accustomed, and limbos under the bar of what's expected in terms of action and suspense.
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She spends most of her time at work, but during off hours she reads about the local cuisine or flips through Danish thrillers or goes to the movies, occasionally by herself.
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Also, I've always been an enormous fan of thrillers—I grew up totally loving Hitchcock and every movie he made, so I knew a lot of the rules of the game.
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The dramas: There have been a lot of Nordic noir thrillers out of the Scandanavian countries — I think it's perhaps because the countries are so safe that people long for some excitement.
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Requiem may have slipped under your radar even if you are a fan of psychological thrillers because it was released around the same time as Collateral, Tabula Rasa, and Wild, Wild Country.
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No, these other horror movies are allowed to stand as psychological thrillers, or, like Jordan Peele's appropriately lauded directorial debut Get Out (which also dabbles in body horror), as biting social critique.
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For the dad who loves psychological thrillers or The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo:The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong (2018)Han Yu-jin wakes up in blood near his mother's body.
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The actor had contemplated bowing out of action movies back in 2015, and he predicted earlier in this month that Hard Powder and The Commuter would be two of his last thrillers.
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We didn't want The Invasion when it was released in August of 2007—when the viewing public had already seen multiple jittery, camera-shaking, post-9/11 thrillers about worlds gone mad.
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Greengrass and Rouse build part of the plot around the familiar boogeyman of modern blockbuster-thrillers: the threat that the American government might create a perfect surveillance system, permanently ending citizen privacy.
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The latest from the director of moody thrillers like Sicario and Prisoners, it follows a linguist (Amy Adams), who is tasked with helping to communicate with a recent arrival of extraterrestrial beings.
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In movies (from D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915 through countless westerns and action thrillers), the violation of women is the strongest, least arguable pretext for male violence.
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Launching April 2020, it will be a mobile-only streaming service offering serialized dramas, comedies, thrillers, reality shows, and other programs, which you can watch on your phone in bite-sized chunks.
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Additionally on this week's episode, Tina Jordan, an editor at the Book Review, discusses this season's thrillers; and Dwight Garner, Parul Sehgal and Jennifer Szalai talk about the books they've recently reviewed.
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What happens next feels "a bit like a tribute to the cheesy deluxe-house-of-guilty-mirrors thrillers of the '80s and '90s," Glenn Kenny wrote in his review for The Times.
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Sure, but let's not forget Jack Ryan, a Central Intelligence Agency analyst who just wants to sit at a desk, and is the centerpiece of several best-selling Tom Clancy military thrillers.
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Enormously long books, too heavy to hold when I'm reading in bed, are a no-no, nor do I ever read thrillers, detective stories or murder mysteries — they just don't interest me.
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Since he had written only three relatively unknown local crime thrillers (a new genre in Germany at the time), finding a publisher to consider such a hefty project took nearly two years.
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Thrillers THRILLER ROUNDUP by Sarah Lyall I've always wanted to be the Henry Fonda of my jury, single-handedly exonerating the falsely accused defendant by the quiet force of my elegant arguments.
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Thrillers THRILLER ROUNDUP by Sarah Lyall I've always wanted to be the Henry Fonda of my jury, single-handedly exonerating the falsely accused defendant by the quiet force of my elegant arguments.
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While some thrillers tick off a checklist of red herrings on a predictable march to the finish, Moggach's creations, with their layered personalities and shifting motivations, throw more guesswork into the mix.
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Between the lines: Financial firms' podcasts aren't exactly thrillers like "Serial," but rather another avenue banks can use to push their brand and stable of experts — and maybe lure in new clients.
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From spy thrillers at the box office, to a Trump campaign aides recent guilty plea tied to Russian meddling in the 2202 presidential election, ominous news about Russia seems to be everywhere.
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Once again, there were no buzzer-beaters, no unexpected upsets or overtime thrillers, but at least the second day of the N.C.A.A. tournament offered a few reasons not to change the channel.
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Silver-haired and 79, Mr. Pottinger had been a senior civil-rights official in the Nixon and Ford administrations, but he also dabbled in investment banking and wrote best-selling medical thrillers.
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Maybe you prefer to read thrillers, like JoAnn Chaney's "As Long as We Both Shall Live," about deadly tensions in a marriage, or Un-Su Kim's "The Plotters," about a Korean assassin.
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In general, the duo tends to make thrillers and comedies, although those genres frequently shade into each other, and some of their films don't quite seem to fit any recognizable category at all.
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Born in 1929 into a family of publishers, Bruna began his career as an illustrator of covers for books including Ian Fleming's James Bond series and the Inspector Maigret thrillers of Georges Simenon.
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Their initial entrance into the Wilsons' lives echoes home-invasion thrillers like The Strangers, and the later stalking sequences resemble It Follows in their particular combination of lurking, inevitable terror, and abrupt violence.
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Though she was crushed not to earn another nod for Baby Jane, the film gave her career a lucrative third act with a series of similarly lurid thrillers like Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte.
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Stone, who's basically the Michael Bay of government thrillers, again appears to be slicing and dicing history to make gods out of men and feverish devils out of meddling mid-level government bureaucrats.
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Last summer, I was reading one of my interchangeable brain-candy British thrillers in my in-laws' bedroom, leaning back in the off-white leather easy chair, when I looked to my right.
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Grisham is known for his crime and legal thrillers, but a decade ago, he wrote a nonfiction story about a man who was placed on death row after being wrongly convicted of murder.
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These movies range from romances to thrillers, but each one has something in common: They're totally extra (-marital, that is.) Click through to see which ones you should watch when the mood strikes.
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Dark is one of the most captivating sci-fi thrillers in recent memory, even if it's a bit hard to wrap your head around its mind-bending plot or its sprawling character list.
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The new shooter from Ubisoft, hung on the Tom Clancy brand of military and espionage thrillers, branding rights for which they paid undisclosed millions, is set in a lifelike model of Midtown Manhattan.
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The real challenge though is that the raw story — for all of its fraud — lacks the sort of verve that makes business thrillers like Barbarians at the Gate or Red Notice so engaging.
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Arthouse dramas like Frozen River and Wendy and Lucy fit the bill, as do thrillers like A Simple Plan, any action movie involving schemers or scammers, and quite a few Coen brothers films.
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So the fights may not yet meet the standards Americans have come to expect from fast-paced CGI-focused action thrillers and, indeed, the company says it's been going through some tough times.
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In this, Gunther is unique among the überheroes who usually command our empathy in thrillers set during the Hitler years—the martyred resisters drawn from Stauffenberg, say, or the noble commoners like Schindler.
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It started with the excellent Nordic noir thrillers (The Killing, anyone?), which gave the world a glimpse of our beautiful Scandinavian capitals; dark, rainy, and filled with pale Nordeners dressed in gorgeous knitwear.
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"Webtoon: The Evolution of Korean Digital Comics," South Korea's entertainment landscape is shaped by the webtoon, digital comics that run the gamut from comedies to dramas, from thrillers to romances and elaborate fantasies.
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From here, we enter into an extraordinary spiritual joust between the widow and the combative priest (Belmondo), which feels as fraught as any gun-toting standoff in one of the director's later thrillers.
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Ours is an era in which we are all becoming fluent in the language of trauma, post-traumatic stress, recovery and survival, but what is good for humanity may be bad for thrillers.
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"The author does not feel the imperative to explain too much or to tie her ending up in a neat bow," Vanessa Friedman writes, reviewing the novel in her roundup of recent thrillers.
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Judd, who starred in the 1990s thrillers "Kiss the Girls" and "Double Jeopardy," argues in her lawsuit that failing to clinch a role in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy undermined her career.
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I dislike much of the current strain of war thrillers, because I regard most of the heroes as murderous psychopaths; I have too much respect for the American military to accept that portrayal.
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Sure, a lot of women in erotic thrillers have a heaping dose of sexual confidence, but Frannie doesn't fit the psychotic woman stereotype from so many of the films before In the Cut.
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He saw it more as a throwback to the character-based thrillers of Hitchcock and De Palma, and a month later, after pitching his vision to Horowitz and Bloomberg, he got the job.
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On the immediate horizon, the neon-pink techno-thrillers Watch Dogs Legion and Cyberpunk 2077 appear to mark a continuation in look and feel, albeit speculating on futures that have seemingly already arrived.
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Michael Nyqvist, a Swedish actor who starred in the original "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" movies and portrayed menacing villains in "John Wick" and other Hollywood thrillers, died on Tuesday in Stockholm.
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Brad Meltzer's thrillers, including his newest, "The Escape Artist," regularly land at the #1 spot on the bestseller list, and he is also the author of the "Ordinary People Change the World" series.
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American audiences are so accustomed to seeing serial killer mythos unpacked in thrillers and documentaries that it's nearly a genre unto itself, but what about a culture where such a phenomenon doesn't exist?
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Things eventually take a violent turn, but rather than spin out of control as thrillers often do, "Apple Tree Yard" keeps its cool, becoming a tense crime thriller rather than a lurid soap.
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The books he recommends range from suspenseful thrillers like "House of Spies, " by Daniel Silva to political non-fiction like "Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes, " by Richard A. Clarke and R.P. Eddy.
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Ms. Reed, who was a professor and resident writer at Wesleyan University in Connecticut for decades and wrote a few thrillers under the pseudonym Kit Craig, had an unconventional, no-holds-barred personality.
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"I like to be scared," he told the outlet, adding that he watched plenty of thrillers growing up, as his parents would drop him off at the movie theater often in their rural town.
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The film has been hailed as the biggest science fiction film produced in China, and is a good signal that the local film industry is maturing, and is capable of producing high-budget thrillers.
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Shostak noted that the real scientific flub in the film is assuming—like so many sci-fi thrillers do—that an alien would want anything to do with us at all, nevermind eat us.
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Apparently, we're more likely to gulp down entire seasons of thrillers and horror series—like The Fall, Penny Dreadful, and American Horror Story—in huge spurts, spending over two hours a day watching them.
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A Bigger Splash, from director Luca Guadigno, is one of those sexy European thrillers that lets us think we're miles ahead of the characters, then delights in revealing just how little we really know.
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The book signals the deep frustration she experienced during the trial (placing fault largely on Judge Lance Ito's bench) and shows Clark's talent for crafting courtroom thrillers, which would ultimately become her second act.
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Our sentient bodies were no longer tethered to couches nightly, held captive by appointment TV. We roamed happily, accessing the most talked-about prestige dramas and zombie thrillers from our laptop screens and iPhones.
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On this week's episode, Finch talks about thrillers; Alexandra Alter has news from the literary world; Marilyn Stasio discusses new true-crime books; and Gregory Cowles and Jennifer Szalai on what people are reading.
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Crime, Mr. Zhou says, is a universal theme, which is why detective stories or police thrillers (even from an authoritarian political system like China's) can more easily transcend cultural divides than, say, historical fiction.
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Mr. Kerr wrote fantasy novels for children (the "Children of the Lamp" series, under the name P. B. Kerr), a mystery novel involving Sir Isaac Newton, and thrillers set in the world of soccer.
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Yet even with Disney's long history of influence in global entertainment culture, few expected the studio to figure out how to take the crown without building a pipeline of R-rated thrillers and comedies.
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The book, along with The Girl on the Train, has created a demand for psychological thrillers and "domestic noirs," in which women explore the challenges and injustices of domestic life with occasionally murderous consequences.
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" Peele says he wants to make "more social thrillers about different human demons, and the first human demon that I was trying to tackle with 'Get Out' was racism and neglect for one another.
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Alfred Hitchcock, making his return to London, also took advantage of the permissiveness of the studio's Me Decade regime, delivering the most disturbing and explicit of his wrong-man thrillers,"Frenzy," also on Sunday.
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Tarantino took everything he loved about the movies—drawing from French New Wave to Hong Kong crime thrillers to 70s-style grindhouse flicks—and packaged them together as a sampler platter for American audiences.
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For example, there's a highly-anticipated animated film coming for the kids (and the adults too, because animation is awesome), several sinister thrillers, a feel good biopic, and even a couple of holiday films.
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The show's creators, the brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, who are in their thirties, are like baby Tarantinos, but, rather than pulp thrillers or spaghetti Westerns, they're obsessed with Steven Spielberg and Stephen King.
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The result is both measured and compelling, recalling paranoid political thrillers from the 1970s (the most famous of which is likely All the President's Men) and explaining the CIA's program in painfully understandable fashion.
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Something that struck me, watching The Report, was the overwhelming feeling of paranoia — not just because it reminds of cinema's great paranoid thrillers, but because a sense of paranoia is pervasive throughout the movie.
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Alfred Hitchcock, making his return to London, also took advantage of the permissiveness of the studio's Me Decade regime, delivering the most disturbing and explicit of his wrong-man thrillers, "Frenzy," also on Sunday.
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Shows that fall in between often exhibit a particular variety of lifelessness — they're action thrillers in which the action feels forced and they're family dramas in which we don't really care about the family.
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Like other Israeli thrillers, "False Flag" has learned a lot of its moves from American models (the better to perfect them and send them back), but it can be distinctively different in its details.
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Known for his work in thrillers like "Face/Off" (1997) and adventure films like "National Treasure" (2004), Nicolas Cage has made a name for himself in many genres by starring in over 100 films.
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The Message and its follow-up series Life After are lush sci-fi thrillers that center on the decoding of an intercepted signal of apparent alien origin — and which might just be a curse.
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Tapped to create and write mainstream broadcast shows, the authors, whose crime thrillers have previously been relegated to "Street Lit" or else "African-American Literature," are finally being recognized for their enormous crossover appeal.
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And the episode was presented in a docu-drama format, complete with re-enactments that were one part TruTV, one part Lifetime movie, and one part faint nod to '90s thrillers like What Lies Beneath.
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Well, if you were old enough to see an R-rated movie, there's a chance that you might have celebrated the lovey-doviest of holidays by seeing one of the scariest thrillers of all time.
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TNT's luxe drama The Alienist is quickly becoming prestige TV's answer to murder-y psycho-thrillers as we await the return of Mindhunter and the future of summer breakout The Sinner hangs in the balance.
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So there's certainly a question of whether Audible could expand the data-driven "find the good parts" approach to its other genres, letting listeners preview fight scenes in thrillers, or gory scenes in horror novels.
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Note: this review contains plot details SEQUELS to science-fiction thrillers tend to be bigger, louder, more expensive and more expansive than their predecessors—and that's if they come out after two or three years.
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From Mission to Mars with Tim Robbins in 2000 to The Last Days on Mars with Liev Schreiber in 2012, even supernatural thrillers have failed to locate deposits of decent drama on the Red Planet.
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Forget all those dumb paranormal chillers and torture-porn slashers—or worse, those fake "found-footage" thrillers in which fresh-faced idiots run around in the dark, inexplicably chronicling their own slaughter with shaky camcorders.
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"If you are into thrillers and you are into a morality that's not black and white and you like to be taken on some kind of surreal adventure, you should check it out," she added.
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"So if you are into thrillers and you are into morality that's not black and white and you like to be taken on some kind of surreal adventure, you should check it out," she added.
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While that kind of rap sheet is common in true crime thrillers, in the real world the names of serial killers are etched in the public consciousness precisely because there are so few of them.
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In the future, when they discover that the stress caused by thrillers actually shaves years off your life, people are going to look back and wonder why they spent so much time binge-watching them.
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Among the items were miniature cameras, concealed daggers and guns, gas masks, Berlin Wall barbed wire, miniature listening devices and all kinds of concealment devices - all the cool spy gear that made spy thrillers exciting.
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It's handsomely shot (on New York City locations) and smoothly assembled, and its naturalistic, psychological, more moody than pulpy approach may work for non-comics fans who don't mind some gore with their procedural thrillers.
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There are inconsequential books that I stop reading all the time, bad thrillers, and I put them down, but there's always another good thriller coming along, so I tend not to remember the bad ones.
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Mr. Talty, an author of narrative nonfiction and psychological thrillers, transforms would could have been another rehashed biography into an absorbing exploration of one man's obsession to redeem his heritage amid familiar fears of foreigners.
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On Friday, the younger of the two brothers revealed to the trade publication Deadline Hollywood that he would be starting a new production company with a focus on family films, comedies and upscale adult thrillers.
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The whole thing is a shiny, expensive pastiche of globe-trotting spy thrillers and action scenes set in the jungle culled from a host of post-Vietnam American films trying to recover some national swagger.
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That means the list reflects the makeup of Goodreads users, who tend to skew young and female: You'll see a fair amount of women's fiction listed below, along with literary fiction and thrillers and fantasy.
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The plot moves fast, crimping in terrifying ways, letting us see the repercussions without the easy vamping that other TV thrillers engage in—and suggesting that the next teen-ager Philip corrupts might be Paige.
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Let's imagine that some film historian or revisionist critic circa 270 were to rediscover this forgotten gem, an oddity of '290s cinema buried among all the Watergate-paranoia thrillers, demonic horror films and disaster blockbusters.
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" And if you're wondering who crafted the most tense parts of Flynn's gritty psychological thrillers, it was definitely Flynn's sharp-clawed writing partner: "Roy has 'helped' me with my last two books and all my screenplays.
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It was the most common genre of 2015's popular films, outpacing family animated movies (nine), adult comedies (seven), spy/heist thrillers (five), sci-fi/fantasy, non-apocalyptic (four), drama (three), superheroes (two) and horror (zero).
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Though Lawrence is better known for her roles in blockbusters like Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and the Hunger Games series, she proved she could tackle thrillers with the Oscar-nominated Winter's Bone back in 2010.
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In World War II and during the fraught Cold War, TV and movie studios churned out dramas, thrillers and even comedies that both promoted capitalist, democratic ideals and warned of the perils of fascism and communism.
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Then, inspired by Into The Water, we chat about our favorite mysteries and thrillers, including Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, and more.
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Inspired by a real-life snowbound journey and the major headlines of the day, she set to writing one of the most famous thrillers of the 20th century: Murder on the Orient Express, published in 1934.
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Epic voyages to the Sun are a mainstay of ancient myths and science fiction thrillers, but NASA's Parker Solar Probe, scheduled for launch in the summer of 2018, will make daring solar odysseys a genuine reality.
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The show's casual paranoia and disdain for authority -- jarring enough when it made its debut -- also feel even more pointed and timely now, during the Trump presidency, in the way '70s thrillers suddenly feel more relevant.
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Genre types: Horror, thrillers, sci-fi Examples: • "Breaking Bad" • "Sons of Anarchy" • "The Fall" • "The Walking Dead" • "American Horror Story" • "Orphan Black" These kinds of shows "were truly propulsive, straight-up genre stuff," Ms. Holland said.
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If you liked other quick thrillers with a science fictional premise such as Lauren Beuke's The Shining Girls, Andy Weir's The Martian, or Ernie Cline's Ready Player One, this is a book that you'll probably love.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Four years after "Serial" put podcasts on the mainstream map with a twisty true crime murder story, Hollywood is rushing to embrace the audio format with everything from fictional thrillers to game shows.
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Shudder is a streaming service that gives users unlimited access to the largest collection of thrillers, suspense films, and general horror media, with each title being handpicked by genre experts and served uncut and ad-free.
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Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, known for thrillers like 1999's "The Sixth Sense" and more recently "Glass," is diving back into television for the first time since Fox's 2015 mystery series "Wayward Pines," which he produced.
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In the chorus of best-selling contemporary domestic thrillers, a triumphant #MeToo parable has emerged: that of the flawed, scorned, disbelieved, misjudged, and underestimated female witness whose testimony is rejected—but turns out to be correct.
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To say it's depressing, then, is to state the obvious; less evident is why Mr. Pellington, previously known for suspenseful thrillers like "Arlington Road" and "The Mothman Prophecies," would dive down this rabbit hole at all.
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You'd expect the themes of amnesia or powers of recall to be prevalent in thrillers or in memoirs by trauma survivors or over-beveraged rock stars, but even literary fiction is getting in on the act.
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It's a film so rich in period detail, and so clear-eyed about the realities of murder investigations, that it makes all the overheated serial-killer mystery-thrillers on TV and in multiplexes look like cartoons.
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Part of "what distinguishes 'Memories of Murder,' setting it apart from rank-and-file thrillers, is its singular mix of gallows humor and unnerving solemnity," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The New York Times.
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If you like your thrillers with a dash of horror, you'll love Riley Sager's latest novel Lock Every Door, which feels eerily similar to Rosemary's Baby (emphasis on the eerie) but with a broke millennial twist.
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And because she also writes the kind of genuinely propulsive thrillers that you can stay up all night reading, she has a commercial appeal that has consistently landed her on the New York Times's bestseller list.
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Citing an article from Book Riot, the website reports that, out of 22 thrillers on New York Times Fiction Bestsellers of 2017 List, 59 percent had violence towards women described in the summary of the book.
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As you'd expect, there's plenty of horror — but there are also thrillers from the likes of Lee Child and Don Winslow, book club material from Sarah Blake, and a sprawling dark fantasy novel from Leigh Bardugo.
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The New York Times dubbed Home Alone "the first Christmas black comedy for children," and its slightly sadistic edge fits into a long tradition of Christmas horror/thrillers such as Krampus, Gremlins, Black Christmas, and more.
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Expect epic novels like The Travelers by Regina Porter, which follows the complexities of sprawling families; complicated thrillers, like Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok; and absolute blockbusters, like Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Fleishman Is In Trouble.
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The series sounds like a slam dunk for lovers of noir thrillers, as it will be directed and executive-produced by Black Mirror's Jakob Verbruggen, with Cary Fukunaga of True Detective as one of it's executive producers.
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Sonja is middle-aged and successful as a translator of gruesome Swedish thrillers, and yet she finds herself perpetually at a distance from everyone around her; her life, ironically, is a series of failed attempts at communication.
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As far as I'm concerned, my next decade or so — along with helping other untapped artists, or untapped identities, find their own platforms as a producer — I want to write and direct these four other social thrillers.
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His self-published supernatural thrillers were not flying off the e-shelves, so he established a makeshift studio in his home office and recounted haunting historical tales of the dead and the dying in 30-minute episodes.
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In our round-up, you'll find psychological thrillers set in the age of Instagram, YA fantasies that take place in fictional African kingdoms, and books so funny your friends will ask to borrow them after you're done.
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While the young actress, 13, has starred in more than a few thrillers including Devil's Due and the upcoming The Conjuring 2 (in theaters June 10), she remains unfazed and open to all opportunities presented to her.
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The actor has made his way through dark thrillers to finally end up as a Disney prince in the live adaptation of Beauty and the Beast — and it isn't a coincidence that he disappears into his roles.
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When there are so few current Hollywood thrillers which forgo capes, masks and computer-generated mayhem in favour of plot, dialogue and gunplay, it's disappointing that "The Nice Guys" should end up being so tired and inconsequential.
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I loved anything by Enid Blyton; the Mary Poppins series; the Narnia Chronicles; the Anne of Green Gables books; and the thrillers from Dad's bookshelf that I thrillingly read far too young, like "Jaws," by Peter Benchley.
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Citing the movie "Syriana" among his inspirations, he said the idea was drawn from his love of espionage thrillers, building twists from the layers of intrigue, and a deeper conspiracy, unpeeled over the eight-episode first season.
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In a six-part documentary series that debuts on U.S. cable network AMC on Monday, Cameron explores the B-movies of the 1950s, space and alien films of the 1960s, and post-apocalyptic thrillers of the 1970s.
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Debut thrillers don't usually make the best-seller list, even when they're written by celebrities, but "Something in the Water" got a nice assist from Reese Witherspoon, who made it the June pick for her book club.
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There, roughly 200 writers, directors and producers — many of them involved in the making of science-and-technology thrillers — were gathered for an event called Science Speed Dating, where James and other scientists would explain their work.
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However, Too Cool For Christmas/A Very Cool Christmas was deemed successful enough that he went on to direct one more similar project: Deadly Skies and Force of Impact, asteroid thrillers which aired on television in 2006.
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While Abbott continues to self-publish her Tom Douglas thrillers, she now also has a second series of books — and although she's kept the digital rights, she opted to sell the paperback rights to a traditional publisher.
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So we here at Vox Culture — where we're currently into low-budget crime capers, young adult thrillers, and workout videos — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
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When I took the job, I was taking on a show in a long tradition of action thrillers dating all the way back to Westerns, and so I don't think we were a special case in that sense.
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James Bond is stuck trying to be artsy and failing, and most spy thrillers have been overshadowed by the rise of Marvel and DC, who provide fight scenes with the added bonus of colorful costumes, capes, and superpowers.
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Funny adult books also work (by David Sedaris or Tina Fey, for example), as do horror (Stephen King), mysteries (Agatha Christie), thrillers (James Patterson, John Grisham), fantasy (George R.R. Martin), science fiction (Isaac Asimov), and sports (Michael Lewis).
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From brutal thrillers to whimsical sci-fi, the slate this year is diverse — and it almost always pays to imagine the world and characters in your head before seeing them through the eyes of a director or cinematographer.
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We've seen what he can do when he's at his absolute best — his name immediately conjures memories of Unbreakable and The Sixth Sense; it's a brand associated with some of the greatest supernatural thrillers of the last century.
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Goldman was a two-time Oscar winner and the writer behind several of the most venerated films in Hollywood history, spanning a huge array of genres, including war epics, spy thrillers, social satire, horror, fantasy, and much more.
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As enjoyable and laudable as "War Dogs" is, though, it does have one thing in common with all the other war films mentioned above—not just the rollicking comedies, but the liberal dramas and the gung-ho thrillers.
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From dystopian thrillers like The Handmaid's Tale to breakout hits like This Is Us and perennial favorites like Veep, this season of television made us laugh, cry, and nervously curl into a ball to rock back and forth.
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We've got everything from thought-provoking thrillers that are sure to keep you on the edge of your seat to a recent release that, while it may seem like a light romantic comedy, actually represents so much more.
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We thought it would be more interesting to have our cover represented in a series of genres — inspired by Danielle Steele romances, Tom Clancy political thrillers, Stephen King horror stories, and Philip K. Dick–style sci-fi novels.
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Generally, I prefer the plots of thrillers to make sense, and, in the first season, this one sometimes didn't: toward the end, I had to stamp my logic-brain out like a snake just to enjoy the show.
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Ms. Gréco, now 91, was on her way to becoming one of the most beloved French singers of the '50s and '60s, while Melville, who died in 1973, left behind a canon of tough, electrifying, philosophically tinged thrillers.
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Thirty thrillers have established him as something of a balladeer for North Jersey, but the landscape in his novels is "my own sort of mishmash" of suburban places, he said — diners and parks, condominium complexes and basketball courts.
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Drawing on tropes from home invasion horror, monster movies, supernatural thrillers, and eerie social chillers, Us slowly builds the case that our greatest enemies are our shadow selves, the parts of us that we like to keep hidden.
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It's the first feature length film to tell the story of the Icelandic disappearances in detail, and like all good recent true crime thrillers— Amanda Knox, Making a Murderer, Serial—at its heart is a fascinating miscarriage of justice.
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VENICE (Reuters) - Among the dramas and thrillers screening in Venice this year, Roan Johnson's story of two Roman youngsters and their families coping with an unwanted pregnancy is part of a genre much rarer at film festivals: a comedy.
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Mr. Vyleta, known in Canada and Britain for his atmospheric, well-made thrillers (including "The Quiet Twin" and "The Crooked Maid"), writes with intricacy and imagination and skillful pacing; never once would I have considered putting his book down.
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Fortunately, Claire North — also known as the middle-grade and young adult writer Catherine Webb and the satirical urban fantasy writer Kate Griffin — has established a reputation for tense, dense, science fiction/fantasy-inflected thrillers that defy facile expectations.
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Bollywood, reliant on a tried-and-tested formula of romances and masala thrillers, has failed to develop its own big-ticket franchises, piggy-backing instead on "Baahubali", with top producer Karan Johar marketing the movie in Hindi this month.
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From February 2 – 15, Quad Cinema will screen an impressive selection of erotic thrillers, from Basic Instinct to Single White Female, and those uninitiated (or curious for a rewatch themselves) will get to see In the Cut on 35mm.
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"We're programmed 'don't go out in the dark,' 'pay attention to footsteps behind you,' 'get away from them as quickly as possible,' 'don't put yourself in any danger,'" says Colette McBeth, a Killer Women member who pens psychological thrillers.
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His psychological thrillers are in the tradition of Georges Simenon's romans durs, and Boyce's lucid translation of this, his final book, feels true to that bleakly lyric vision, though one wonders about the "children's books" listed in his oeuvre.
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Thin and wiry, with an unruly pouf of side-swept gray hair and a wisp of mustache, Lam was carrying a wide mix of books that day: breathless political thrillers, bodice-rippers and a handful of dry historical tomes.
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In his director's statement, Damien Power, who also wrote the script, cites '70s "survival thrillers" as his inspiration, and like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," this movie has the hallmarks of torture porn: gratuitous slaughter, remorseless murderers and gruesome acts.
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I enjoy magical realism, tightly written thrillers, nonfiction stories of courage and grace, and books that weave unforgettable tales with remarkably few words, like "Jim the Boy," by Tony Earley, or "A River Runs Through It," by Norman Maclean.
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American Kristin Armstrong won a third straight road time trial gold, on the eve of her 43rd birthday, both road races were thrillers and a Colombian BMX rider sparked some of the wildest celebrations seen during 15 days of action.
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The 77-year-old director behind classic thrillers like Scarface, Dressed to Kill, and Carrie told French publication Le Parisien that he's partnering up with a French producer (so far unnamed) to work on a film inspired by the Weinstein scandals.
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Both films star A-list actresses as blonde-banged spies trained in combat and seduction; but while Atomic Blonde was feminism's answer to James Bond, Red Sparrow is more in line with gritty Cold War thrillers like Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy.
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This year's edition of the world's oldest film festival features several strong female leads, including Amy Adams in thrillers "Arrival" and "Nocturnal Animals", Dakota Fanning in survival epic "Brimstone" and Portman again as first lady Jacqueline Kennedy in drama "Jackie".
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All descriptions aside, it should come as no surprise that Give Me Your Hand is going to be a book you physically can't put down — it was written by Megan Abbott, queen of thrillers centered around twisted friendships and female ambition.
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Eastwood would go on to make dozens more films after High Plains Drifter — from high-octane thrillers and crime films to biographies and historical dramas, along with a number of Westerns, many of which would dwell on similar themes and motifs.
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Naomie Harris Reveals the Iconic Movie Line That Had Her 'on the Floor' The film is inspired by the 1977 horror classic of the same name, widely praised as one of the most influential and visually striking thrillers ever made.
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It's not that I avoid thrillers, detective novels, and so on; I seem not to be meaningfully aware of them, in the same way that I recognize, if distantly, a pastime called baseball, sought out and enjoyed by many upstanding citizens.
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Some critics said that the books, with potboiler plots, characters in conflict and plenty of violence, elevated the sermonizing of old-fashioned Christian fiction into the realms of modern page-turning thrillers by John Grisham, Tom Clancy or Stephen King.
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Like a lot of Australian television and film, "Cleverman" has a rough immediacy in its pacing and cinematography that helps to make up for its deficiencies elsewhere, and if you have an appetite for sci-fi conspiracy thrillers, it's worth sampling.
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The test of a spy, in thrillers, is to "pass for a native," even though the English-speaking natives of Glasgow, Trinidad, Delhi, Lagos, New Orleans, and Melbourne (not to mention Eliza Doolittle's East End) all sound foreign to one another.
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So while "Homecoming"— in addition to Ms. Keener and Mr. Isaac, it also stars David Schwimmer, David Cross and Amy Sedaris — is billed as a psychological thriller, it feels more experimental than the thrillers we're used to watching on film.
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Best-selling thrillers like "Flowers in the Attic" and "When the Bough Breaks" took on child abuse and molestation, and by the 1990s we began to see the spread of community notification laws that required convicted sex offenders to register.
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This is a problem that haunts too many contemporary thrillers: an addiction to empty shock and surprise, to stories that curveball wildly and characters that aren't who they seem — usually, it turns out, because they are hardly characters at all.
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This note of falseness also affects traditionally paced thrillers like Outbreak (1995), about the spread of an Ebola-like virus, and the 2013 South Korean movie Flu, about an illness that breaks out in the city of Bungdam, near Seoul.
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Otherwise, the former president appears to have provided inside information about how the job works when a president is paying attention (this novel's POTUS reads his presidential daily briefing), done some speechifying and drawn upon his great love of thrillers.
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Dramatically speaking, "Hunters" has the advantage of featuring the ultimate villain, in the chilling sort of way that 1970s thrillers like "Marathon Man" and "The Boys From Brazil" did -- the terrifying (and sadly timely) notion of Nazis hiding in plain view.
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ROBERT MARK KAMEN, whose work includes the "Karate Kid" and "Transporter" movie franchises, as well as the "Taken" thrillers, and his wife, Lorna, sold their apartment at 210 Fifth Avenue, a prewar co-op near 214.6nd Street, for $25 million.
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Among the first to recognize the potential of mass-market paperbacks, Mr. Minton acquired Berkley Books in 583 and turned thrillers by Lawrence Sanders and spy novels by Len Deighton into page-turning triumphs and their authors into household names.
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So we here at Vox Culture — where we're currently into creepy British thrillers, a Pulitzer-winning novel, and a half-forgotten pop star — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
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Larry Cohen, a writer and director whose wide-ranging career included mainstream television series, outlandish horror movies featuring killer babies and killer yogurt, slick thrillers and even a few blaxploitation films, died on Saturday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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He writes characters whose attachments to one another and motivations for what they do are deeply emotional — not always a given in thrillers — and give the audience plenty of room to feel empathy, even for those who are clearly in the wrong.
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Aja: Actually, the two films I thought of most strongly when I saw Get Out were The Stepford Wives and The People Under the Stairs, which were both films that Peele included in his BAM curation of "social thrillers" that influenced Get Out.
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And while Orphan Black occasionally tilted too far in one of those directions or the other, the meshing of both ideas made it stand out from the many other techno-thrillers on TV. The fifth and final season really illustrates that split.
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But other paranoid thrillers come into play as well, from M. Night Shyamalan's recent "something's not right" thriller The Visit to the terrific original 1973 version of The Wicker Man, where a detective investigates a child's disappearance while fatally misunderstanding the situation.
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The horror genre tends to embrace new technological innovations before others (found footage began solely as a horror subgenre before expanding to include the likes of superhero and comedy films), and most of the prominent browser films have been thrillers of some sort.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Starting today, July 19, the Quad offers a group of fleshy, blood-splattered thrillers in the series Fresh Meat: Giallo Restorations Part II, just in time for you to strip down bare for the summer heatwave.
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There are mild attempts to turn Keanu into a parody of operatic crime thrillers and overblown action flicks, but Atencio and co-writers Peele and Alex Rubens (a writer and co-producer on Key & Peele) fail to find much inspiration in their setup.
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I'm not partial to any one thing — I don't just do historical films, I don't just do black films, period pieces, I want to be able to tell a plethora of stories in different genres whether it's sci-fi, different thrillers, action films.
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Mr Greengrass, 60, made the hugely acclaimed "Captain Phillips", "United 93" and "Green Zone", but he is better known for "The Bourne Supremacy" (2004) and "The Bourne Ultimatum" (2007), a pair of spy thrillers, starring Matt Damon, which reinvented the Hollywood action sequence.
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