Thriller

For better and worse, The Girl on the Train will always be tied to Gone Girl. Paula Hawkins’s debut novel was almost immediately anointed “this year’s Gone Girl.” To this day, The Girl on The Train is still compared – unfavorably – to Gone Girl. Such was the case for the book, and now is the case for

Based on Gillian Flynn‘s massive 2012 novel of the same name, the first trailer for David Fincher‘s Gone Girl has debuted, and it looks every bit as creepy as the source material. Set to Elvis Costello‘s She, the trailer finds Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck, looking like that career renaissance will

Runner Runner pretends to be about poker. Does it manage to pull off being an engaging thriller anyway? Find out in our review.

Smart, thrilling, and packed with a message – The East deserves to be seen. While it has recognizable names, this flew largely under the radar in theaters garnering only $4 million in ticket sales. If you missed this one in theaters, which most of us did, I definitely recommend picking up The

Bodies at rest remain at rest – unless they’re hacking each other to pieces – in Nicolas Winding Refn’s painfully inert ONLY GOD FORGIVES.

NOW YOU SEE ME is a satisfyingly silly hybrid of an ensemble heist movie and a cat-and-mouse thriller – with magic!

THE EAST is an engrossing, if far-fetched, eco-thriller from the creative partnership behind SOUND OF MY VOICE.

Post-grad neo-noir SIMON KILLER is stylish and bracing, but struggles to find meaning in its portrait of an American psycho in Paris.

Danny Boyle’s TRANCE is a propulsive, oft-entertaining psycho-noir, but it can’t fool all the people all of the time.

Director David O. Russell (Silverlings Playbook) has brought together a stellar cast for his latest project, a dramatic historical thriller. Picture feathered hair, bellbottoms, tape recorders, backroom dealings, double-crossing and a groovy soundtrack! Oh Yes! He’s working again with Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper while rounding out the cast with

Crawl is indie horror at it’s best. The film is written and directed by Paul China, and features a great cast of character actors. It stars Georgina Haig (Fringe), George Shevtsov (Love Serenade, Dead Calm), Catherine Miller (Terra Nova) and Lynda Stoner (Prisoner). It is currently available on DVD and

This film might have been a success in the 1960’s, but it’s terribly difficult to get through in the 2010’s. I found myself frustrated with the pace, flashbacks and psychological demonstrations of the prisoners.

Love Actually image: © 2003 Universal Studios.  ||  This Chick’s Flicks logo: © 2012 Kristal Bailey. Some people celebrate Christmas Day with family, friends, and presents under a tree. Others, like me, celebrate with a trip to the movies and dinner in Chinatown. Regardless of how you spend the day

Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace light up the big screen in Passion, a film directed by Brian de Palma. Filmed in Germany, the movie will first premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 7, 2012 before hitting the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2012 and the New

Coming to theatres December 7, 2012 is the thriller/action movie Deadfall starring Eric Bana (Hulk, Munich) and bright-eyed Olivia Wilde (House, In Time). The movie also showcases the talents of Charlie Hunnam, Kris Kristofferson, Sissy Spacek, Kate Mara and Treat Williams.