Fight Club – 1999

I’m not supposed to talk about Fight Club. I’m not supposed to talk about Fight Club. But, what the hell. Brad Pitt and Edward Norton star as two men with serious anger issues who use their repressed anger to form a club dedicated to a baser human instinct. The focus of the film is not […]

Argo – 2012

Life is not always thrilling. Most films based on true events have a slow swell, but on occasion there are real-life events that are so intense they beg to be made into films. One such example is Argo. Argo is based on the true story of a CIA operative who is sent to Iran to […]

M – 1931

The hunt is on. A child murderer is on the loose and it falls to the criminals of the city to trap the killer. This film starts like a public service announcement, but it slowly builds until it is a thriller about a killer trying to avoid capture. Peter Lorre plays the killer whose attempted […]

The Handmaiden – 2016

Park Chan-wook is a brutal director. Oldboy is probably the best Korean film ever made, but his latest effort might just top it. The Handmaiden is a psychological thriller that revolves around a plot to marry and steal the money of a rich orphan. The film takes a violent turn in th form of the […]

Dial M for Murder – 1954

Alfred Hitchcock is the master of suspense. His films bring an intensity to the screen and most build for a long time before the thrills reach their peak. This film is one of his best and easily one with a lot of build, in fact, this films builds for about half the movie and then […]

Night Train to Munich – 1940

The thriller is an interesting genre. Modern thriller rely on around the corner frights and keeping the viewer’s heart racing, but older thrillers tapped into something more primitive. Night Train to Munich focuses on a plot to transfer a kidnapped industrialist to Nazi Germany so that he can work for the enemy, but the Brits […]