The Call
Before low-budget thrillers took place on video calls (Unfriended: Quarantine is only a matter of time), they had to make do with telephones – Phone Booth, Grand Piano, Locke, Buried […]
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Sorry, Wrong Number
Thrillers have always exploited the latest methods of communication, whether people are witnessing murders over Skype (Unfriended), telephones (Phone Booth), pigeon (Bird Box) or cave paintings (Ice Age). 1948’s Sorry, […]
Premium Rush
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a New York bicycle courier called Wilee (as in the cartoon coyote) in Premium Rush – essentially Duel but instead of a malevolent truck, he’s being chased by the even scarier Michael […]
Woody Allen: A Double Bill – Part 6: Woody’s Dead
The Jewish High Holy Days seem like the perfect time to bring back my Woody Allen double-bills, where I review one of the auteur’s best films and one of his worst. Crimes […]
Locke
The man in a vehicle sub-genre has recently given us Robert Redford on a boat and Liam Neeson on a plane, and now Tom Hardy in a car. Locke is set […]
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