Thriller

Port of Call

Based on real events, Philip Yung’s latest exploration into Hong Kong’s disaffected youth details the grisly murder of a teenage prostitute and the efforts of an eccentric police detective (played… Read More
Interstellar

Interstellar is quite possibly Christopher Nolan’s most personal film to-date, a grand spectacle of deep space exploration involving wormholes and theories of relativity, but which ultimately rests on the relationship… Read More
Gone Girl

Gone Girl looks very much like a David Fincher film, with its washed out colour-palette, earthy hues and now-obligatory Reznor/Ross soundtrack, but it sure doesn’t play like one. Fincher has… Read More
The Expendables 3

The Expendables 3 accomplishes an almost impossible task, managing to be the most enjoyable entry in the franchise so far, while simultaneously breaking almost every rule of Stallone’s original mission… Read More
The Fatal Encounter

Following the success of Masquerade last year, South Korea has rediscovered its taste for period drama chamber pieces, and Lee Jae-gyu’s The Fatal Encounter more than delivers, both in dramatic… Read More
Black Coal, Thin Ice

This year’s surprise Golden Bear winner at Berlin is a bleak, yet engrossing whodunnit set in the wintry climes of Northern China. For his third feature film, writer-director Diao Yinan… Read More
Devil’s Knot

True story of small-town injustice that saw an entire community turn on a group of teenage weirdos after three young boys are found horrifically murdered. With no real evidence beyond… Read More
The Fugitive

One of those great Hollywood thrillers that you can throw on any time and get lost in. Harrison Ford stars as respected doctor Richard Kimble, wrongly convicted of murdering his… Read More
White Dog

For a long time this early 80s Sam Fuller thriller was all but forgotten, shelved upon original release, and only re-released in the US by the Criterion Collection in recent… Read More
Transcendence

Most people drawn to new science fiction thriller Transcendence will do so out of curiosity for “the new Johnny Depp film”, but for those in the know, it is another… Read More
REVIEW: RoboCop

For many, myself included, Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop is something of a sacred text in the world of 80s action and intelligent science-fiction cinema. It’s one of those films I saw… Read More
The White Storm

This year’s HK Asian Film Festival opened with Benny Chan’s epic throwback to the Hong Kong heroic bloodshed thrillers of the 1980s, with Lau Ching Wan, Louis Koo and Nick… Read More
Hwayi: A Monster Boy

Packed with violence, humour, machismo, revenge & more quirk than most Korean revenge thrillers, but the anarchic genre-bending spirit of the director’s almost indefinable previous film, Save The Green Planet,… Read More
Raising Cain

One of the more derivative, ridiculous offerings from Brian De Palma that sees John Lithgow playing a respected child psychologist with a split personality. While his wfie gets increasingly distressed,… Read More
The Warriors

I finally watched Walter Hill’s gangland classic for the first time as part of Twitch’s Full Disclosure feature. It hasn’t aged particularly well, and fails to resonate when discovered today… Read More
Captain Phillips

Tom Hanks leads a convincing charge for his third Best Actor Oscar as real-life merchant seaman Capt. Richard Phillips, whose container ship is overpowered by Somali pirates in Paul Greengrass’… Read More
Prisoners

Denis Villeneuve’s English language debut is a tough, gritty and downright chilly thriller about a man (Hugh Jackman) who takes the law into his own hands when his daughter goes… Read More
Coherence

Reminiscent of the comedy It’s A Disaster, as reimagined by Shane Carruth. A dinner party disintegrates into mind bending science-fiction, from their may be no escape. Utterly gripping stuff. Read More