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Writer-director Nate Parker’s 2016 biographical drama tells the true story of Nat Turner, born into slavery, but who becomes literate and a preacher in the antebellum American South of Virginia in 1831. Nat preaches to his fellow slaves, encouraging them […]
‘I remember being really small, too small to see over the edge of a table. There was a snow globe, and I remember the penguin who lived inside the globe. He was all alone in […]
Director Michael Winner’s horrible 1981 sequel to his original Death Wish (1974) tells another ugly story in which Charles Bronson’s troubled New York City architect Paul Kersey sets off on a new vigilante spree in Los […]
Julie Christie enjoyed a rare commercial success in this rather nasty 1977 sci-fi thriller as a scientist’s wife held hostage by a giant mechanised brain. This weird but effective movie has some very telling shock moments […]
Cross Urban Legend with Cruel Intentions, add a dash of Scream and a bit of Dial M for Murder, and you get director Davis Guggenheim’s splendidly teasing and extremely stylish 2000 thriller. Well, they seem to be borrowing […]
Writer-director Richard Tuggle’s 1984 thriller is admittedly nasty and violent, but it also exciting, tense and suspenseful – and an underestimated, perhaps often misunderstood movie. It is rated R for strong sexuality, nudity, terror, violence and […]
Producer-director-star Clint Eastwood’s suddenly much lower-impact 1983 action thriller is the fourth Dirty Harry film in a steadily declining series, following Dirty Harry (1971), Magnum Force (1973) and The Enforcer (1976). After a lengthy gap, Eastwood returns to […]