This year sees crime fiction and thrillers stealing a march on romance.
After that, the domination of big budget fantasy, generally aimed at young boys, drowned out the smaller comedies and thrillers that were just as likely to be fronted by women as men.
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Kurt Gerron's "Het mysterie van de Mondscheinsonate" (Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata), a 1935 Dutch thriller shot using only natural light, bears the clear influence of both Weimar music-hall films and thrillers.
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There were good indie projects, blockbusters, and cross pollination between the sci-fi genre and horror, superheroes, and crime thrillers, to name just a few.
These days, Hollywood-inspired thrillers and action extravaganzas vie for moviegoers' attention alongside the more family-oriented saccharine formulas.
Director Renny Harlin has a background in action thrillers and this is his step into the political realm.
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There is a sharp contrast between the explicit violence of some of the festival's recent thrillers and the good taste represented by cognac.
It was the stuff of international thrillers and blockbuster movies.
The last horror film directed by James Whale features a haunting musical score that helps make The Bride of Frankenstein one of the finest and most touching thrillers of its era.
The same might go for director Kim Jee-woon, a talented Korean known for macabre ghost stories like "A Tale of Two Sisters, " whacky adventures ("The Good, the Bad, the Weird"), and grisly cop thrillers ("I Saw the Devil").
Films such as "Arbitrage" and "Margin Call, " both financial thrillers distributed by Roadside Attractions and Lions Gate, had synchronous theatrical and VOD debuts.
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In the novel, McCarthy played off postapocalyptic Hollywood thrillers, and so he gave you the heady feeling that you were seeing a movie unfold on the page.
Its first three tournaments this year, in Asia and Australia, were all thrillers.
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Haggis keeps the violence completely within the bounds of realism, and we are fearful for John and Lara, because the two of them seem not like men and women in other movie thrillers but like a smart, troubled couple that we might have invited over for dinner last week.
O'Rourke's explanation of "Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage" -- using the thrillers of John Grisham and songs ("noise") of Courtney Love -- is a classic.
I'm also the author of the thrillers "DOUBLE BLIND" and "ENGAGED TO KILL".
In Joseph Finder's thrillers, there are businesses and there are bad guys, but at least the role of profitmaking in American life is a little more nuanced.
Thrillers are particularly popular in Japan and Mexico, for example, and filmgoers in Canada, Britain and Australia seem to share the same tastes for all movie genres.
The best thrillers are those that teach you something, and Finder has always been good at this.
With its muted brass and ominous strings, it's an ode to regret and a rebuke of the music of the 1960s gaudy spy thrillers.
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I'm also the author of the thrillers "THE DARK SAINT, " "DOUBLE BLIND" and "ENGAGED TO KILL".
He became famous in the late 1960s for suspense thrillers such as "La Femme Infidele" (1969) and "Le Boucher" (1971).
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From an early age, I knew that I wanted to write popular thrillers, but when I got to graduate school, I sensed an upturned nose and a haughty eye directed toward the fiction and films that I loved.
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From visual cues to plot beats and character arcs, it feels like a mash-up of the various high-profile science fiction thrillers from the last few decades.
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After a while it doesn't matter, since the action is as repetitive as it is relentless, a succession of fights and frantic chases accompanied by those drums that have come to define the genre pacemakers for heartless thrillers.
For connoisseurs of the genre, all of this evokes the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock, along with Fred Zinnemann's "The Day of the Jackal, " and the associations are acknowledged.
While "Dr. No" may have introduced Bond to the big screen, it was the spiraling success of Sean Connery's subsequent films "From Russia With Love, " "Goldfinger, " and "Thunderball" -- each tapping into the mid-'60s appetite for taut espionage-themed thrillers -- that transformed him into a universally recognized icon of popular culture.
No one involved in the creation of "Love Me Do" or "Dr. No" would have expected that either would be anything more than quick money spinners -- a throwaway two-minute pop song and a low-budget adaptation of a cheap paperback attempting to cash in on the Cold War appetite for espionage thrillers.
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