Category Archives: thriller

“Homecoming” Teaser Trailer

Directed by Sam Esmail, I am excited about this Prime Video Series. Homecoming is a mind-bending psychological thriller. The story focuses on Heidi Bergman, played by Julia Roberts. She is a caseworker at the Homecoming Transitional Support Center, a Geist Group facility helping soldiers transition back to civilian life. Walter Cruz, played by Stephan James. He is one of these soldiers, eager to begin the next phase of his life. Overseeing Heidi and the facility is Colin Belfast, played by Bobby Cannavale. He is an ambitious company man whose manic behavior puts demands on questionable motives.

Four years later, Heidi has started a new life, living with her mother, played by Sissy Spacek. Heidi is working as a small-town waitress, when a Department of Defense auditor, played by Shea Whigham, comes to her with questions about why she left the Homecoming facility. Heidi begins to realize that there’s a whole other story behind the story she’s been telling herself.

The cast also includes Jeremy Allen White, Alex Karpovsky, Dermot Mulroney, among others. Here is a very short teaser trailer.

“Glass” Trailers, Movie Clips, Featurettes, & Poster

Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, he brings collectively the tales of two of his champion originals— Unbreakable and Split. Combining the two movies into Glass, Shyamalan is calling the movie a comic-book thriller.

Bruce Willis returns as David Dunn and Samuel L. Jackson returns as Elijah Price with his pseudonym Mr. Glass.  Joining from Split are James McAvoy, reprising his role as Kevin Wendell Crumb and the multiple identities who reside within, and Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke, the only captive to survive an encounter with The Beast.

After the finale of Split, Glass starts with Dunn pursuing Crumb’s superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of intensifying encounters, while the shadowy presence of Price emerges as an arranger holding secrets vitally important for both men.

Sarah Paulson joins the cast as the psychiatrist treating these three men. Other cast members include Spencer Treat Clark and Charlayne Woodar.

The next trailer tells more of the story, which is rare for Shyamalan.

True to Shyamalan style of promoting his movies, he is not saying much about the movie and the trailer shows awkward edits and extreme action.

The first movie clip released, and I am still trying to understand the story behind this movie. In the interview I’ve watched, I get the idea they are superheroes at some level.

This movie is strange and unreal. I am not sure what Shyamalan is trying to accomplish in this story. One of the producers in an interview on my YouTube Channel said he wanted people to get the messages “Why are we hear?” “What is the meaning of life?” All I can say is this is a strange way to put it.

The movie clips show how Glass is trying to get these guys to do something. I am not sure what, though. This is a very different and strange movie about superheroes. The main point is this is real or unreal. I am not sure.

The next featurette sums up the last movie of the trilogy, and what M. Night Shyamalan had in mind when he decided to make this movie. It’s pretty clear you need to have seen Unbreakable because he refers to it in Glass quite a bit.

The three clips show more of the story and how James McAvoy’s character is the most important aspect of the movie. I am not sure I understand the movie, but McAvoy’s acting is incredible.

The next featurette shows more of McAvoy’s talent when Anya Cliparette visits with the Beast.

The Blu-ray/DVD is available with the movie streaming on the main platforms. I’ve heard mix reviews about the movie. If you haven’t seen it yet, now is your chance.

The bonus features are epic with a look at each main player in the story, and how they work within the framework of Shyamalan’s creation.

M. Night Shyamalan works with the same crew from film to film.  The cast and crew share stories of working on his productions is like being with family. The Blu-ray or DVD is filled with deleted scenes and alternate ending.

The Truth About “City of Lies” Trailer and Poster

Directed by Brad Furman, City of Lies, based on an authentic story, stars Johnny Depp as Russell Poole and Forest Whitaker as Jack Jackson. The movie follows Poole and Jackson as they investigate the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG spark.

The screenplay is by Christian Contreras, who adapted the story from Randall Sullivan’s non-fiction book. Contreras also wrote the script for Zero Dark Thirty.

Furman is best known for directing The Lincoln Lawyer, and the movie trailer shows a tight and well-crafted movie.

“The Girl in the Spider’s Web” Trailers, Movie Clips, Vignettes & Posters

I read the late Stieg Larsson’s books and thought they were fantastic. I remember an abundance of coffee. I even asked a friend from Sweden, “Do people in Sweden drink that much coffee?”

He said they did. I thought Americans and Italians drank a lot of coffee. Larsson’s stories feature lots of coffee served day and night.

Directed by Fede Alvarez, we again follow the dynamic figure and title character of the celebrated book series created by Larsson. Claire Foy plays the vigilante Lisbeth Salander this time. Salander returns to the movie screen in The Girl in the Spider’s Web, a first-time adaptation of the recent global bestseller.

Looking at the photos and footage of Foy as Salander, it is refreshing to see the Golden Globe winner play the outcast vigilante defender. Steven Knight, Fede Alvarez, and Jay Basu adapted the screenplay.

Alvarez is from Uruguay and is best known for his movie Don’t Breathe, a horror movie

The cast includes Sverrir Gudnason, Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Stephen Merchant, Claes Bang, Christopher Convery, Synnøve Macody Lund,  and Vicky Krieps.

The red poster is fantastic because it shows the pensive character and her intent to pull off this unbelievable twist in the circumstances.

The Vignette shows us Lisbeth Salander as Foy describes her character.

The three movie clips are intense and offer a moment of entertainment. Claire Foy’s accent in the “Sisters” clip is unbelievable. She nails it.

The trailer below is called the third trailer, but I don’t know where the second trailer is. Anyway, the movie is looking good. I just saw Claire Foy win an Emmy for The Crown. This girl can act. Is that her sister?

“Operation Finale” Trailers, Movie Clips, Featurettes, and Posters

Directed by Chris Weitz, Operation Finale is a thrilling true story that follows the 1960 covert mission of legendary Mossad agent Peter Malkin, played by Oscar Isaac, as he infiltrates Argentina and captures Adolf Eichmann, played by Ben Kingsley, the Nazi officer who masterminded the transportation logistics that brought millions of innocent Jews to their deaths in concentration camps.

Mossad is the national intelligence agency of Israel.

Weitz directing credits include About a Boy, Twilight Saga: New Moon, and The Golden Compass. His writing credits are impressive, which includes Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Mountain Between Us, and Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.

The atrocities of the Nazi regime is forever in our minds.  We will never forget how crazy and mad a group of evil men and women can become if they are allowed to dramatize freely without being stopped.

The latest poster image communicates so much better. We must be vigilant and never let such atrocities happen again.

The rest of the cast include Lior Raz, Melanie Laurent, Nick Kroll, Joe Alwyn, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Aronov, Ohad Knoller, Greg Hill, Torben Liebrecht, Mike Hernandez, Greta Scacchi, and Pêpê Rapazote.

The feature below offers details of how Weitz works with the actors. The actors speak about working with him and how he directs.

“The Extraction” movie clip is intense.

The movie clip tells us how they plan to get Eichmann out of Argentina.

The featurette tells more about the difficulties of capturing one of the evilest men during the Nazi regime. Kingsley tells us why he wanted to play this man.

The movie clip is directed and edited to keep the fast pace of the story moving – also known as suspense and thrilling.

The movie trailer is intense and Ben Kingsley is fantastic, as usual.

“Widows” Trailers, Movie Clips, Poster & Blu-ray/DVD

Directed by Steve McQueen, who won an Oscar for directing 12 Years a Slave, and co-writer and bestselling author Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, follows four women who are widows. They share a circumstance of having a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities.

The story is a contemporary thriller located against the setting of crime, passion, and corruption. Taking place in Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica, played by Viola Davis, Alice, played by Elizabeth Debicki, Linda, played by Michelle Rodriguez, and Belle, played by Cynthia Erivo, take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

Here are two more movie trailers.  We get the gest of the movie, now. These women take charge of their lives and it’s payback time.

The movie also stars Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Daniel Kaluuya, Lukas Haas and Brian Tyree Henry.

The three movie clips so how fast the movie moves. I hope this is true throughout the movie. I viewed some interviews with the actors, screenwriter, and director.  Each actor praised the director, McQueen. You can see these interviews on my YouTube Channel.

The movie clip tells us more about the story and why these ladies decided to turn themselves into tough chicks.

The official second trailer tells the story, and I am excited and can’t wait to see it.

The two trailers are similar but one is a red-band trailer, which means it is for mature audiences.

The Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming are available.  Purchasing the Blu-ray package is nearly 60-minutes of bonus content, with three documentary featurettes filled with in-depth interviews and raw on-set footage detailing the compelling production story of the movie.

“Peppermint” Trailer, Movie Clips, Featurette, & Poster

Screenplay by Chad St. John and directed by Pierre Morel, not much is being said about the movie Peppermint. It is being promoted as a revenge story focusing on a young mother, played by Jennifer Garner. She’s lost her family with nothing to lose. Prepping herself she takes down some pretty nasty dudes because the stole her life away when they killed her husband and daughter.

The Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming of the movie is now available.  Jennifer Garner fans grab your copy and add it to your library. The movie looks good and is worth watching.

Morel directed Taken, and the movie trailer shows a similarity between the two storylines. I am looking forward to seeing Jennifer Garner kick some bad guys booties.

The featurette shares interviews with both Jennifer Garner and Pierre Morel.  You get to see Garner set up and get physical with the bad guys.

Three movie clips arrived and they definitely shine some much need light on what happens in the movie.  Jennifer Garner kicks some butt as a revenge for the criminal system failing to bring justice to the loss of her family.

Simplistic, Strange “Down A Dark Hall” Trailer and Poster

Directed by Rodrigo Cortes, Down A Dark Hall follows Kit, played by Anna Sophia Robb. She is a problematic young girl, and her temper makes it difficult for her mother to take care of her.

Hence, she ordered to the mysterious Blackwood Boarding School. She arrives at Blackwood and faces the eccentric headmistress, Madame Duret, played by Uma Thurman. She also meets the school’s only four other students. They, too, are young women headed down a troubled path.

While exploring the labyrinthine corridors of the school, Kit and her classmates discover that Blackwood Manor hides an age-old secret rooted in the paranormal.

Based on the classic gothic YA novel of the same name by Lois Duncan. Duncan also authored I Know What You Did Last Summer.

Isabelle Fuhrman, Victoria Moroles, Noah Silver, Taylor Russell, and Rosie Day round out a talented cast.

The movie is now streaming on Amazon if you want to check it out.

The author of Twilight and The Host, Stephenie Meyer, produced the movie. Cortés also directed the film Buried. They are calling Down A Dark Hall a supernatural thriller. But it sure seems like a horror movie. Watch the trailer, and you’ll see what I mean.

“Bleeding Steel” Trailer and Poster

Written and directed by Leo Zhang, Bleeding Steel is an action-drama similar to the ‘80s techno-sci-fi thrillers. The story follows Jackie Chan as Lin. Lin is a police inspector in modern Hong Kong.

While Lin tracks down a deranged, mecha-enhanced villain, played by Callan Mulvey, he uncovers a geneticist’s lost bio-chemical invention. The invention has been surgically implanted into his missing daughter, played by Nana Ou-yang.

A young hacker, played by Show Lo, helps Lin make the connection between the device that haunts his daughter, his enemy’s sinister army, and a strange cultural phenomenon called “Bleeding Steel.”

If you are a Jackie Chan fan, you need to see this movie. It is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and is streaming.

“Future World” Trailer and Poster

Future World is a wild and nutty story directed by James Franco and Bruce Thierry Cheung. The movie arrives the inside a desert oasis. A queen, played by Lucy Liu, lies dying as her son Prince, played by Jeffrey Wahlberg, travels across barren wastelands to find a near-mythical medicine to save his mother’s life.

Prince evades violent raiders on motorbikes led by the Warlord, played by James Franco, and his enforcer, played by Cliff “Method Man” Smith. He meets Ash, played by Suki Waterhouse. Ash is the Warlord’s robot sex companion assassin. Her mission is to find her soul.

Druglord, played by Milla Jovovich, captures Prince. Warlord and his motorcycle forces roar in to attack them. With all that happening, Prince fights to save the remnants of humanity.

The cast includes Margarita Levieva, Snoop Dogg, and George Lewis Jr.

Cheung co-wrote the screenplay with Jeremy Craig Cheung and Jay Davis

It’s not the first time Cheung and Franco worked together. Cheung directed Franco in their 9-part series Making a Scene with James Franco.

If you think the plot sounds convoluted, watch the movie trailer. You will see an awful lot of craziness.