(VCI Entertainment, $14.99, not rated) ALSO OUT THIS WEEK INCEPTION Christopher Nolan's puzzle-box thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio as an industrial spy who specializes in infiltrating dreams, only to run up against his own subconscious.
Inspirations and influences: At once a key entry in the film noir cycle and an opportunist exploiter of McCarthy-era political paranoia, Kiss Me Deadly is first and foremost a classic what's-in-the-box thriller - and as such is referenced in such varied postmodern pop-culture recyclers as Repo Man (1984) and Pulp Fiction (1994).
Mike Phenix rescued a point as AFC Telford United held Conference North leaders Hednesford Town in a six-goal Boxing Day thriller at Keys Park.
Phil Alden Robinson, the veteran screenwriter and director who made "The Sum of All Fears," one of last year's top box-office thrillers, warns against ascribing too much method to Hollywood's enduring mayhem.
You have to think especially out-of-the-box for thrillers because readers/audiences will be expecting just that -- thrills.
Birdemic hews a close line to the conventions associated with box-office thrillers, from start to finish.
A quarter of the proceeds from the Saturday event went to the L.A. Unified School District chapter of the Reading Is Fundamental literacy program, along with boxes of thrillers.
Her latest film, a Netflix production released in cinemas on 21 December, is Bird Box, a dystopian thriller with a controversial depiction of motherhood.
The Box, a horror thriller adapted from a short story by Richard Matheson by Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly, took just $7.5m£4.5m5m) in its first weekend of release in the US.
He now has "a drawerful of scripts," one of which will be the basis for his next feature, "The Box," a psychological thriller adapted from Richard Matheson's short story "Button, Button" that he is about to start shooting with Cameron Diaz.
