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The Limey is a 1999 Steven Soderbergh-directed, Lem Dobbs-written crime thriller in the neo-noir style, but with drastically different, carefully fragmented editing that gives the film a wonderfully novel feel and imparts the meaning of what is being said or done in a much different way than the Hollywood staple method of simply splicing things [...]

With its story and its screenplay written by none-other-than James Cameron, Strange Days is director Kathryn Bigelow (K19: The Widowmaker) vision of a beautiful dystopian Los Angeles on the precipice of the turn of the millennium where violence is everywhere, the police are out in force like something in Bosnia or Northern Ireland with full-on [...]

Chaos is such a waste of cast, script, film, and money.  The writer and director Tony Giglio has little previous directorial experience and his IMDb resume provides associations with mostly B-movies in general for his career. In this horrible movie we are presented with a bank robbery in Seattle led by Lorenz (Wesley Snipes) and a [...]

With their premiere film writer/director team Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine gives us a pulse-pounding adrenaline-fueled action thriller starring Jason Statham and Amy Smart that starts with a rush and doesn’t stop that rush until the credits roll in Crank. Statham plays Chev Chelios, a hitman for a local organized crime gang, who awakens to [...]

John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson star in this 2007 adaption of a Stephen King short story, directed by Mikael Håfström (Derailed, 2005) surrounding the mysteries of  a haunted hotel room in New York City. Continue reading… SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "1408, 2007", url: "http://fauxnixon.com/1408-2007/" });

Jodie Foster brings a woman living in New York City as a radio personality named Erica Bain with a deeply loved fiance who is brutally attacked in Central Park and almost destroyed as a result of it emotionally in this 2007 Neil Jordan movie. Continue reading… SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Brave One, 2007", url: "http://fauxnixon.com/the-brave-one-2007/" });

These films, for the most part, aren’t at all obscure—some of them are downright classics, and many of you may have seen some of them. But they aren’t the films that leap immediately to mind when the average person walks into the video store and heads for the “Suspense” section. Still, there’s some true gems here [...]

Matt Reeves’s much marketed 2008 action/horror/thriller Cloverfield lives up to its hype.  It takes the point-of-view camera technique utilized in The Blair Witch Project and brings it to new extremes as it ekes out a truly creepy and unsettling looking at an attack on Manhattan by what can only be described as a monster. Continue [...]