NerveShredding

Nervous flyers, look away now. The Spanish director JA Bayona (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom; The Impossible) brings his considerable skills as an action director to the much-filmed real-life story of the crash of Uruguayan air force flight 571 in the icy peaks of the Andes in 1972. The incident, and the subsequent 72-day ordeal of the survivors, who had to resort to cannibalism, has been the subject of numerous documentaries and movies (including Frank Marshall’s Alive). But for the visceral, teeth-rattling intensity of…

via Netflix Just like clockwork, Netflix’s almost weekly release of a brand new original thriller has reaped massive dividends a mere 24 hours after debuting on the platform, with The Strays already one of the streaming service’s biggest hits. Per FlixPatrol, the feature debut of writer and director Nathaniel Martello-White has clawed its way onto the Top 10 in a phenomenal 77 countries around the world, even if only five of those nations saw fit to launch the nail-biting story to a number one spot. That being…

via 20th Century Fox Any movie that released in 2020 will forevermore have an asterisk placed next to its box office performance, but the fact director William Eubank’s high concept sci-fi horror Underwater released in January unfortunately means that it’s destined to be remembered as a bomb, regardless of the industry being brought to its knees just a couple of months later. It came as a surprise that the intense B-tier thriller smothered in A-list production values failed so spectacularly, though, given that…

via 20th Century Fox As technology continues to evolve, countless cinematic classics, cult favorites, and underrated gems become outdated, but the best examples never lose any of their impact. 20 years may have passed, and the core premise wouldn’t make a lick of sense in a modern context, but Joel Schumacher’s breathless Phone Booth continues to induce nail-biting anxiety. The plot is so simple and sky-high that it borders on the ingenious. Colin Farrell’s arrogant publicist hears a phone ringing in an empty…