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Jan 23, 2025 | 
tasteofcinema.com | Mansur Zeynalov
Unfortunately, the 2020s haven’t delivered on the thriller front so far. There were some good thrillers like Soderbergh’s “KIMI” or the indie film “Emily the Criminal,” but not many films of recent years feel like instant classics in a way “Silence of the Lambs” or “Se7en” turned out to be.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
tasteofcinema.com | Mansur Zeynalov
5. Judgment Night (1993)Its soundtrack is definitely not underrated in some circles, as the album which paired hip-hop artists with rock acts, sold more than half a million copies in the United States alone. Some of these people probably didn’t bother with the film but the film has everything you want from a 90s “wrong place, wrong time” thriller. Packed with action and crime elements, this is one of the true “edge of your seat” thrillers.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
tasteofcinema.com | Mansur Zeynalov
“I’ll be back!”, “Phone home,” “Like tears in rain…” All these lines or speeches are still popular today as ever. The 1980s were such a great decade for the genre. The technological advancement was helping the films look better and go to areas they haven’t before but it was also one of the main subjects of their plots. The fear of technology and it getting out of control are still relevant themes.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
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5. The Quiet Earth (1985)After “Death Watch,” we’re once again leaving America to see what other countries have contributed to the genre in this decade. This time our film is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi from New Zealand. Bruno Lawrence plays a man named Zac Hobson. In the film, he notes the following words on his tape recorder, which will give you an idea about the plot: “Zac Hobson, July 5th. One: there has been a malfunction in Project Flashlight with devastating results.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
tasteofcinema.com | Mansur Zeynalov
5. Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997)Tsui Hark-directed “Once Upon a Time in China” was one of the landmark martial arts movies, a staple in the Wuxia genre, and helped Jet Li to become even a bigger star than he already was. It turned into a successful franchise. Jet Li who was busy with making other entertaining films in Hong Kong back then didn’t return for the fourth and fifth installments.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
tasteofcinema.com | Mansur Zeynalov
5. Dominion: A Prequel to Exorcist (2005)William Friedkin always thought the story ends with the first film and any kind of sequel, spin-off, or whatever would be unnecessary. He refused to watch them even but that of course didn’t stop the Hollywood machine, to mixed results. The second “Exorcist” film was mostly panned but it had fans like Scorsese. The third film by William Peter Blatty himself was probably good enough till it was ruined by the studio.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
tasteofcinema.com | Mansur Zeynalov
Who says the westerns are dead now? They’re still alive. Of course, now we don’t get them all the time as we used to get back in time but they continue to evolve, and every year we get good amount of entertaining or thoughtful westerns.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
tasteofcinema.com | Mansur Zeynalov
5. In a Valley of Violence (2015)To date, still the only non-horror film Ti West has ever made. He mostly made horror films and one can’t complain about them as most of them were highly entertaining and that includes “MaXXXine” which didn’t get the attention of the previous two installments of the trilogy but the direction was strong. He’s obviously passionate about filmmaking and especially the movies of previous decades where he keeps the old-school traditions alive in his movies.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
tasteofcinema.com | Mansur Zeynalov
The 1980s was a fine enough decade for the crime cinema. Brian De Palma switched to the crime genre from his thrillers and made classics like “Scarface” and “The Untouchables”. Michael Mann and Abel Ferrara were delivering great films in the genre, even though they were still the indicator of even better films to come. Still, the films of that decade were more leaning into action rather than old-school straight crime stories. The people now wanted to see more films like “Lethal Weapon”.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
tasteofcinema.com | Mansur Zeynalov
5. Eureka (1983)Nicolas Roeg is widely admired in the filmmaking community. You can see some members of a younger generation praise him for his incredible “Don’t Look Now” or some other films like “The Man Who Fell to Earth”, “Walkabout” and “Performance”. Perhaps, “The Witches” is also popular but for whatever reason they don’t always bring this up even though it’s a great film and proves his excellent range once again.
