Synopsis “Lucid Dream” is a South Korean science fiction thriller which skillfully blends the sociological aspects of technology with the philosophy of memory, dreams, and the relentless pursuit of reality. The film explores the implications and ethics of technology on our subconscious mind, and examines how it can be applied to solve real-life mysteries. Choi […]
Synopsis The Canyons is a drama film set in modern-day Los Angeles, a place characterized by emotionally distant, fractured relationships, ambition, and the film industry. Directed by Paul Schrader and written by Bret Easton Ellis, the film is not a conventional thriller, instead, it harbors a quiet, tense blend of strained trust and the deeper
Film Description “Black Sea” is an adventurous British film released in 2014, directed by Kevin Macdonald and written by Dennis Kelly. The movie revolves around the struggles of the protagonist, Captain Robinson, who goes on a journey filled with hurt and greed as he attempts to reclaim an abandoned Nazi submarine. The movie gives an
Introduction Rogue Agent is a 2022 British biographical thriller that dramatizes the remarkable criminal history of Robert Hendy-Freegard, who passed himself off for years as a British intelligence officer. Directed by Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn, the screenplay—developed with Michael Bronner—relies closely on documented cases and emotional testimony, exposing a case of systemic fraud marked
“Blacklight” is a political action thriller that interrogates state-sponsored duplicity, personal redemption, and the relentless dialectic between verisimilitude and hegemony. Mark Williams directed the film, which appeared in theaters in 2022, with Liam Neeson portraying a haunted operative whose loyalty finds itself entangled in a matrix of deceit menacing enough to obliterate every tenet he
Synopsis “All the Old Knives” is a literate class of espionage drama, extremely controlled, that explores the moral fog of intelligence work, extracting both loyalty and abandonment of conscience as the complementary currencies of the trade. The narrative, derived from the 2015 novel by Olen Steinhauer, is both book and screenplay, an organic shape that
The Protégé is a 2021 action-thriller directed by Martin Campbell, celebrated for revitalizing the James Bond franchise with GoldenEye and Casino Royale. The film propels a taut, fast-moving plot saturated with choreographed violence, tracing the vengeance mission of a female assassin who, upon discovering her guardian’s murder, is drawn into an ever-expanding conspiracy. Its blend
Synopsis Spiderhead stands as a psychological science-fiction thriller interrogating the tenuous boundary between autonomy and coercion. Adapted from George Saunders’ dystopic short parable “Escape from Spiderhead,” the motion picture unfurls within a plausible near-term setting where neurochemical engineering has advanced dramatically. Its locus—the minimalist, high-tech penitentiary dubbed Spiderhead—occupies a forbidding archipelago, isolated from the surveillance
Overview Memory (2022), directed by Martin Campbell—whose 2006 Casino Royale successfully redefined the Bond franchise—centres on an ageing assassin adrift in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Adapted from Jef Geeraerts’ 1985 novel De Zaak Alzheimer and remade from the 2003 Belgian feature The Memory of a Killer, the picture assembles a notable cast, including Liam
Overview Humane is a dystopian thriller and family drama that arrived in theaters in early 2024 and marks Caitlin Cronenberg’s feature-length directorial debut. Michael Sparaga’s concise screenplay anchors the story in a near-future society ravaged by ecological disaster, in which extreme state-born measures now include voluntary euthanasia for age and health deemed expendable by the
