37 h. ago The Ridge star Jay Ryan on making the new Scots/Kiwi psychological thriller with Outlander star Lauren Lyle

How the tense new drama took the star back to his Scottish roots

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4 d. ago Ballad of a Small Player review – Colin Farrell seeks redemption in Edward Berger’s high

Debts, secrets and a cartoonish Tilda Swinton catch up with Farrell’s self-styled ‘Lord Doyle’ as he confronts his own destiny in a chance to win salvationThe vast emptiness of luxury hotels is part of the mystery and spectacle of Edward Berger’s intriguing if static and overwrought psychological drama-thriller; it is about a desperate chancer and gambling addict, faced with the metaphysical crisis of renewing or annulling his existence by staking everything on a single bet. Screenwriter Rowan Joffe adapts the 2014 novel by Lawrence Osborne, whose title is ironic. He would not have these problems if he really was a small player. He is a big player and a big loser, although his smallness comes through in other ways.Colin Farrell plays a professional gambler who styles himself “Lord Doyle”, adrift in the Chinese gambling mecca of Macau, the Asian Vegas; he is a despised “gweilo” or foreign ghost. Farrell shows us a seedy guy with an outrageously spivvy moustache and a flop sweat, runn...

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7 d. ago 'Hidden gem' thriller on Amazon Prime that keeps you on edge on your seat is must

A film fan has shared a 'hidden gem' psychological thriller film you may not have heard of. It will keep you guessing and on the edge of your seat, so it could be worth adding to your watch-list

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7 d. ago Amazon Prime psychological thriller is 'so good' people are bingeing it in one night

People who have watched this psychological thriller series on Amazon Prime are saying it's so good they just couldn't stop watching it, so you might want to add it to your watch-list

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8 d. ago Netflix horror film based on Stephen King novel hailed as 'gut wrenching' by fans

The psychological horror thriller was released eight years ago and had many people questioning what's real and what's not.

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8 d. ago ‘Verging on unwatchable’: Guardian writers on their most stressful movies

With the US release of Rose Byrne’s anxiety-inducing motherhood spiral If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, writers relive their most uncomfortable movie watchesThe only movie I have literally had to take breaks from in order to give my sympathetic nervous system time to downshift out of flight or flight mode, Scott Mann’s 2022 psychological thriller Fall is brilliant in its simplicity. Thrill-seeking climbing influencer Hunter convinces her bestie Becky to do a little immersion therapy after her husband Dan’s sudden death during a climb leaves her fearful, depressed and suicidal. The goal: to climb a decommissioned TV transmission tower deep in the California desert that’s roughly twice the height of the Eiffel Tower. When the rickety ladder that gets them to a tiny platform at the structure’s top falls to smithereens, the women suddenly discover new meanings of SOL. The film is nothing if not an excuse to gloriously parade a series of show-stopping, sweaty-palm scenes, yet it becomes a dee...

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8 d. ago The Woman in Cabin 10 used a real $150 million boat for filming and crew 'couldn't touch anything'

The Woman in Cabin 10 is a psychological thriller film which was shot on board a $150 million superyacht

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1 week ago Netflix viewers binge 'perfect' series from Game of Thrones creator with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score

This western psychological thriller branded by viewers as 'a bloody good watch' has quickly became a fan favourite since arriving on Netflix

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1 week ago Die My Love: Jennifer Lawrence’s ‘astonishing’ new performance glimpsed in first trailer

Robert Pattinson co-stars in the psychological thriller from Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, which has earned Lawrence career-best reviews

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2 w. ago Netflix fans rush to watch 'crazy' psychological thriller with star

Netflix has released a gripping new psychological thriller starring a famous actress, and critics have called it "absolutely crazy", "creepy" and "genuinely brilliant"

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2 w. ago The Ridge: New psychological thriller with Outlander star given premiere date on BBC Scotland

The Ridge stars BAFTA Scotland award-winning Scots actress Lauren Lyle.

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2 w. ago Netflix psychological thriller series has people 'cancelling their plans' to watch it

Netflix users have been urging everyone to watch the new 'dark and creepy' series on the streaming service - with some saying it's so good that it's stopped them from getting on with their day

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3 w. ago Disney sparks fury as it unveils first look at 'chilling' new psychological thriller

The upcoming release stars Maika Monroe and Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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3 w. ago Seven at 30: David Fincher’s devilish thriller is a chilling immersion in evil

The grim serial killer hit dared to take a mainstream audience to a hopeless place despite pressure from executives and test screenings to sanitiseIt had to end with the box. It nearly didn’t.Before David Fincher received a draft of Andrew Kevin Walker’s script for his 1995 psychological thriller Seven, he’d sworn off the possibility of ever directing again, still reeling from his notoriously rocky experience on his debut feature, Alien 3, which had ultimately been taken out of his hands. (“I’d rather die of colon cancer than make another movie,” he colorfully put it.) Walker’s script had already gone through various permutations since 1989, most notably a twist ending that had been written out of subsequent drafts for being irredeemably bleak. Yet, the original version was the one that Fincher read and he was unwilling to compromise, despite persistent pressure from executives and test screenings that seemed to confirm that it was too bleak an ending. Continue reading...

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