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The visionary director behind “Okja” and “The Host” returns with “Parasite,” a pitch-black comedy that sharply becomes an intense thriller. The acting, cinematography and narrative are all stellar.

Review: Movie is thrillingly unpredictable

By Arleigh Rodgers • November 6, 2019

To predict “Parasite” is to ask the impossible, like erasing a memory, turning backward in time or evading gravity. But writer-director Bong Joon Ho’s shrewd narrative is sharp and grim and, most...

The Prodigy is full of predictable twists and turns and brings nothing new to the horror genre. However, the camera work and lighting make up for these pitfalls.

Review: “The Prodigy” is nothing special

By Selin Tuter • February 11, 2019

What happens when a cold-blooded serial killer reincarnates into a newborn baby’s body? It becomes a huge mess. Though the events in “The Prodigy” are messy and gory, the storyline is even more...

Kingdom puts a new spin on the zombie apocalypse genre, with a setting in ancient Korea. The show also uses vivid symbolism to show separations between social class.

Review: “Kingdom” shows the horror of zombies and social class

By James Baratta • February 4, 2019

Netflix original series “Kingdom” takes zombie-horror to a whole new level. A pandemic looms over a version of feudal Korea, ruled by the totalitarian Haewon Cho Clan and its mysteriously distant...

Assassination Nation takes the violent doomsday premise of The Purge and sets it in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts.

Review: ‘Assassination Nation’ is a hopeless dystopia

By Jake Leary, Staff Writer • September 25, 2018
It’s an unpleasant movie that successfully tells the story Levinson set out to make, but that narrative is too grotesque and cruel to enjoy.
The Predator, a remake of the 1987 science fiction film Predator, offers exciting action sequences — and not much else.

Review: ‘The Predator’ fails to live up to predecessor

By Liam Conway, Staff Writer • September 19, 2018
"The Predator" is another forgettable sequel to a franchise that has never come close to the excitement of the original.
Known for his role as Jim in the workplace comedy The Office, John Krasinski wrote, directed and starred in the horror film A Quiet Place.

Review: Slow-paced panic permeates “A Quiet Place”

By Arleigh Rodgers, Staff Writer • April 10, 2018
It’s encouraging to see a horror film both so visceral and so unequivocally frightening.
Based on the novel by Stephen King, “Gerald’s Game” is a psychological thriller set in a single location. Jessie Burlingame (Carla Gugino) allows her husband, Gerald Burlingame (Bruce Greenwood) to live out his violent sexual fantasy.

Review: Netflix horror-thriller doesn’t play around

By Colin Tessier, Staff Writer • October 2, 2017
Based on the novel by Stephen King, “Gerald’s Game” is a twisted, violent psychological thriller about a woman’s fight to survive.
Split follows Kevin (James McAvoy), a man suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder, who kidnaps three girls while his monstrous, new personality emerges.

Review: Shyamalan recaptures old identity with ‘Split’

By Colin Barrett, Staff Writer • January 29, 2017
M. Night Shyamalan's latest thriller, "Split," is a return to form for the famously maligned director of "The Last Airbender" and "After Earth."
Anne Marie Cummings and Evan Stewart Eisenberg star in the Readers Theatre production of In A Forest, Dark And Deep as Betty and Bobby, respectively, two feuding siblings.

Through the woods: The Readers’ Theatre to present intense thriller

By Tylor Colby, Staff Writer • February 19, 2014
From March 7–9, the Readers' Theatre will stage a performance of Neil LaBute's "In A Forest, Dark And Deep," directed by Cynthia Henderson, associate professor of theater arts at Ithaca College.

Complex story echoes past era

By Chloe Wilson, Contributing Writer • September 14, 2011
The CIA’s killer spy reputation may be a thing of the past, but “The Debt” is a captivating, intelligent thriller and a reminder of the ruthlessness that pervaded the spy world during the Cold War era.
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