British playwright Sam Holcroft’s Edgar and Annabel, a dystopian story of dissenters fighting against the establishment, comes to Chennai, directed by Sunandha Raghunathan

Director Praveen Sattaru will be helming the Telugu spy thriller series ‘Mission Tashafi’ for Zee5, starring Simran Choudhary, Anish Kuruvilla and Srikanth Iyengar

The Nikhil Siddhartha starrer attempts to merge a personal story with secret files pertaining to Subhas Chandra Bose and the result is a listless thriller, thanks to several old tropes

What starts out as a high-paced exciting action-fuelled film soon unravels to become a family drama.

A group of people are travelling to Busan in a train. So are zombies.

‘Karthikeya 2’ rides on an interesting premise but its preachy tone prevents it from becoming an absorbing thriller

Director Pavan Sadineni’s Telugu web series ‘Dayaa’, headlined by J D Chakravarthy’s restrained brilliance, is a gritty series that can leave viewers curious to know more

Dulquer Salmaan, one of the most talented actors of the South film industry is all set to embrace Tollywood. Known for his charismatic persona, the actor is gearing up for a second Telugu film after his incredible debut in Mahanati. According

Purdue basketball faces Virginia in the Elite Eight

When CBS Friday announced a series order for Silence of the Lambs sequel Clarice starring Rebecca Breeds, the announcement included three key new cast members whose deals had closed after the coronavirus pandemic suspended all pilot production in mid-March, Kal Penn, Nick Sandow and Michael Cudlitz. Designated Survivor and The Good Doctor alum Penn became available after NBC/Universal […]

There are stories. And there are remarkable stories. And then there are people who write remarkable stories. Perhaps Pulitzer-prize winning writer Geeta Anand belongs to the third category.

The Priest, the upcoming Mammootty starrer is one of the most-awaited upcoming films of Malayalam cinema. The shooting of the much-awaited project has been put on a hold now due to the all India lockdown. As per the latest updates, The

Amazon Prime Video recently released the trailer of the upcoming series Paatal Lok, and has now shared details and posters of each character. Starring Jaideep Ahlawat, Neeraj Kabi, Abhishek Banerjee, Jagjeet Sandhu, Aasif Khan and others, the show will release on

Dulquer Salmaan, one of the most talented actors of the South film industry is all set to embrace Tollywood. Known for his charismatic persona, the actor is gearing up for a second Telugu film after his incredible debut in Mahanati. According

Environmental activist and 'Vampire Diaries' star releases a trailer for his new green-themed web series

Forget everything you know about how the West was won ~ The Spirits have a story to tell.

One woman, one camera, NO crew. Shalyse Dominique makes a big splash with her directorial début "Legal ThreaT".

Jack Thriller is a comedian who most people know from his time doing funny—and often outrageous—interviews on 50 Cent’s website ThisIs50. He’s talked to everyone from porn actors to fellow comedians to rap stars to athletes and beyond.

But in addition to that, Jack is also a talented sketch comedian and writer, stand-up, and even a singer. He got his start working as a writer, warm-up act, and all around right hand man to comedian Lil Duval, before breaking out on his own and moving from Atlanta to New York City. 50 quickly noticed his popular skits, and soon Jack had become the website’s breakout star.

He quickly moved from the computer screen to the television screen, starring in several seasons of Nick Cannon’s show Wild ‘N Out. And his latest venture is a singing career. He’s released a song with Nore, and has shared the stage with Musiq Soulchild.

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Cinetools has released its new Trailer Cue Series sample library Metropia, a collection of dark sci-fi thriller cues that offers you an insight into the new cybernetic world full of avant-garde technology. The pack is geared towards surreal sci-fi projects, suspicious and engaging scenes, and background music for an utopian world. “Metropia” featuring high-end trailer […]

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Filmmakers hope to debut "Red Winter" next winter.

Directed by Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra, "The Infiltrators" is a mix of documentary footage and staged fiction scenes to tell the story of undocumented young immigration activists taking their work inside a Florida detention facility.

Download the Pac-12 Now app to watch an epic, triple-overtime 2003 battle between USC and California this Saturday at 1:30 p.m. PT/ 2:30 p.m. MT. The game will be available to all fans.

Penn State alumnus and author Paul Levine's latest novel, "Cheater's Game," focuses on the college admissions scandal.

This week, make your own ending to a thriller set in a locked-down lab, join a nature walk to track Europe’s spring and listen to the trends shaping our future

Adrian Tchaikovsky's latest novel The Doors of Eden rewrites Earth's evolutionary history, with highlights including fish that upload their minds to supercomputers and cats that rule over primates

Chris Hemsworth plays a super-tough mercenary on an all-guns-blazing mission to rescue a crime lord’s kidnapped son

Sadly, this has nothing to do with dentistry. Extraction is a made-for-Netflix action thriller from veterans of the Marvel Comic Universe – screenwriter Joe Russo, stunt-specialist-turned-director Sam Hargrave and star Chris Hemsworth. It’s based on the graphic novel Ciudad (which Russo co-authored), transferring the action from the Paraguayan city of Ciudad Del Este to Dhaka in Bangladesh.

Extraction is a little bit hokey and absurd, and the very end has an exasperating cop-out – but it has to be admitted that, in terms of pure action octane, Russo and Hargrave bring the noise, and there are quite a few long-distance “sniper” scenes in which people get taken out from miles away as the bullet travels through their skulls with a resonant thoonk.

A ridiculously titled film about a couple who stumble upon a stash of money is absurd and cliched but mostly entertaining

One of the most surprising reveals of last October’s unprecedented Netflix data dump was the astounding popularity of cheap psycho-thriller Secret Obsession. While the streamer proudly touted new films from Alfonso Cuarón, Paul Greengrass and the Coens in the same period, it was a no-star, dim-plotted slab of schlock that netted more viewers, with an estimated 40m households eager to find out just how secret that obsession really was. Modelled after a Lifetime TV movie (with a Lifetime TV director at the helm), it was an important victory for Netflix because it revealed a substantial audience for tiny-budgeted thrillers with generic titles, a bracket they could easily fill at little expense.

Related: The Half of It review – charming Netflix teen comedy takes on Cyrano

The sequel to 2017 orc-cop buddy movie Bright, starring Will Smith, has lined up a director.

Blake Lively will star in "Dark Days at the Magna Carta," a post-apocalyptic thriller that's being developed at Netflix as a possible trilogy. Michael Paisley will write the screenplay for "Dark Days at the Magna Carta," set amid a catastrophic event and centering on a woman going to extreme lengths to survive and save her […]

Blake Lively is producing with Shawn Levy, her husband Ryan Reynolds's frequent collaborator.

The Escape Room

U/A: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director: Adam Robitel
Cast: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Woll, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine
Rating: 

These so-called 'live' reality game movies occupy a sub-genre of their own and Hollywood has been churning out quite a few of them following the Young Adult's obsessive fixation with material that encompasses it in entirety. But they are not all as thrilling or compelling as the first few that made it to hit franchise levels.

'Escape Room' is basically a set-up to get rid of six nondescript lone survivors through a series of life-threatening puzzles designed to test their survival instincts. And why pray does that have to happen? There's not much explanation here for that. Just swim with the tide, is all they ask. Unfortunately, it's not that easy for the audience because the viewer has to constantly suppress the disbelief that springs up every time the participants go through haranguing moments that willy-nilly put their lives in peril.

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This is a far more perilous version of the more recent spurt of high-risk Telly games and since we don't get to know or understand the participants' motives (other than the 10,000 dollar prize money) it's difficult to empathize or find a reason to pay attention to their trauma. The writers also use some uninteresting physics theory to justify the random six players' participation in a largely predictable schema of disjointed thrills. They are made to go from intense heat to intense cold, then to a gas chamber, a space crusher and a few more vicarious routines before the winner can be decided.

While the production design is vivid, there's not much holding it together. Nik Dodani as nerd Danny, Jason Ellis as irritating yuppie Jason, Tyler Labine as trucker Mike, Deborah Ann Wolf as the tough, capable war vet Amanda, Logan Miller as a young alcoholic Ben and Taylor Russell as a withdrawn college student Zoey put in imminently indistinct, forgettable performances. The writing is largely formulaic too and the helming lacks serious edge. There's really nothing here to hold your attention for the near 100 min runtime.

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With the lockdown having put the brakes on his plans of filming Bhoot Police, director Pavan Kripalani has gone back to the writing desk. The filmmaker, who had given Bollywood one of its few psychological thrillers with Phobia (2016), is giving finishing touches to the sequel. However, keeping the current scenario in mind, Kripalani has decided to develop it as a web-film.

"The current situation has changed the way the entertainment business functions. I am guessing that over the next one year, smaller films will [benefit] by having a direct-to-web release. So, Phobia 2 will most likely release directly online," he explains.

Pavan Kripalani

Close on the heels of the Radhika Apte starrer hitting the screens, it was heard that a male protagonist would take centre-stage in the second instalment. However, the director has had a change of heart. "I had written a male-centric story, but now, I [am pursuing] a different idea with a female lead."

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Hollywood actress Blake Lively will be soon seen in a post-apocalyptic thriller about a woman fighting for the survival of her family. For the film, Lively teams up with director Shawn Levy. Titled Dark Days At The Magna Carta, it will stream on Netflix, reports hollywoodreporter.com.

Netflix is working on the project with an aim to create a trilogy. Michael Paisley is on board to write the screenplay. Lively will also back the movie through her B For Effort banner along with Kate Vorhoff. Levy will produce via his 21 Laps banner with partner Dan Cohen.

While the details are being kept a secret, it is being described as "a character-driven thriller set against a catastrophic event and centres on a woman going to extreme lengths to survive and save her family".

Paisley was the one who came up with the story. She started conceptualising the story last year, but the ideas took form when the pandemic began around the world, including the US. The story is not related to a contagion, but "a world-altering event is a key foil and themes of isolation and strength of family emerge".

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Bollywood is known to make remakes from time to time. Gone Girl is exactly the type of story that could make a great thriller in Bollywood. But, what would the movie look like?

The actor plays a detective with Tourette’s syndrome in this 1950s-set film

The Romanian director’s new film is a noirish tale built around a non-verbal language from a small Spanish island

Corneliu Porumboiu’s crime movie is a colourful tribute to noir classics

Margin Call, the latest in a line of films on the crash of 2008, depicts a Wall Street investment bank’s last ditch attempts to save itself from impending disaster. Written and directed by first time feature director J.C.Chandor – and starring Kevin Spacey, Demi Moore and Jeremy Irons – The New Yorker called it “the best Wall Street movie ever made”. It’s been marketed as a thriller – but how do you create excitement when the action consists of men in suits peering at computer screens and talking on Blackberries? Does Margin Call have anything new to say on the much-debated causes of the collapse? Andrew Hill, FT management editor, puts these questions to Alex Preston, ex-City trader and author of This Bleeding City; Peter Aspden, FT arts writer; and Leo Robson, film and television critic. Produced by Griselda Murray Brown  

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Paris St Germain extended their Ligue 1 lead to 13 points with a 4-3 home victory against Girondins de Bordeaux on Sunday but the French champions had Neymar sent off.

Great Britain took their first steps towards the next Winter Olympics when they emerged from the opening game of their qualifying tournament in Nottingham with a hard-fought 4-3 victory.

The show is a 'surveillance thriller' where everything - even CCTV footage - can apparently be faked, with the police and intelligence services having astonishing reach.

British actor Rupert Grint, best known as Ron Weasley in Harry Potter, is now back on screen in the Apple TV+ psychological horror series Servant.