Cruise bounces through this romantic spy adventure with smooth-talking charm, ninja spy skills, and Diaz transforms from damsel in distress to partner in action with enthusiastic glee.
Category: thriller
‘The Descent’ – subterranean horror on Amazon Prime
Neil Marshall’s nerve wracking, claustrophobic survival thriller about six spelunking women turns into a gripping horror film featuring the creepiest cave dwellers to skitter across a screen.
Roman Polanski’s ‘Cul-De-Sac’ on Criterion Channel
Donald Pleasance, Françoise Dorléac, and Lionel Stander star in this sly little character piece set in an isolated medieval castle on the barren British coast, which Polanski claimed as his personal favorite of his films.
Jeremy Irons plays ‘Dead Ringers’ on Amazon Prime and Peacock
David Cronenberg directs this mesmerizing psychological drama about identical twin brothers and gynecologists whose conjoined lives lead them to madness.
‘Skyfall’ – James Bond faces his past on Hulu and Paramount+
007 gets a backstory and Judi Dench gets her hands dirty as M in the 23rd official Bond movie, directed with high style by Sam Mendes.
‘Videodrome’ – Long live the new flesh on Peacock
James Woods chases a pirate TV signal with brutal yet hypnotic S&M broadcasts and becomes a slave to the signal in the first masterpiece from filmmaker David Cronenberg.
‘Argo’ – a stranger than fiction rescue tale on HBO Max
Ben Affleck directs and stars in this based-on-a-true-story drama of the rescue of American hostages in Iran that won the Oscar for best picture
David Cronenberg’s ‘Rabid’ – a viral plague on HBO Max
David Cronenberg continues his exploration of disease, metamorphosis, and mutation in this ingenious low budget horror film that reimagines disease as an evolutionary hiccup.
David Cronenberg’s ‘Shivers’ free on Hoopla
This low-budget early feature from Cronenberg is a subversive horror film that charts a social breakdown by tearing through our most intrinsic taboos.
‘Goldfinger’ – James Bond goes blockbuster on Hulu and Paramount+
Sean Connery helped turn the James Bond spy series into a blockbuster franchise in his third outing as 007, perhaps the most iconic film in the series.