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Yahoo
2 days ago
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11 Must-Watch Thrillers on Netflix Right Now (May 2025)
Thrillers were once one of the most active genres on Netflix, but there's been a noticeable lack of new offerings in this category for a while. Fortunately for Netflix, the streamer's lean selection allows subscribers to revisit some of the older thrillers like The Hateful Eight, which hit theaters almost a decade ago. The Netflix original thriller, The Devil All of the Time, also had some sizzle when it debuted in 2020 with a ridiculously stacked cast including Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Riley Keough, Robert Pattinson, Eliza Scanlen and Mia Wasikowska. You can find these films and more among the Watch With Us team's picks for the must-see thrillers on Netflix right now. Need more recommendations? Then check out the Great New Movies on Netflix, Max, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and More, the Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now, the Best Movies on Hulu Right Now and 4 Underrated Movies on Netflix in May his eighth film, writer and director Quentin Tarantino came up with a Western thriller he called The Hateful Eight. Kurt Russell plays John "the Hangman" Ruth, a man who's hard to like, but few could argue with his reputation as a bounty hunter. His latest bounty, "Crazy" Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is chained to his arm as they travel by stagecoach. As a snowstorm builds, Ruth reluctantly allows a fellow bounty hunter, Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins) to join the group arrives at Minnie's Haberdashery, Ruth can't shake the feeling that something is off as he's surrounded by strangers, including Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), Bob (Chris Mannix) and a Confederate general, Sanford "Sandy" Smithers (Bruce Dern). Ruth isn't sure he can trust this group, or even the two men he rode into town with. But with the snowstorm in full roar, there's nowhere else to go. The Hateful Eight is streaming on Netflix. Donald Ray Pollock, the author of The Devil All the Time, got to narrate the Netflix adaptation of his novel, which weaves through the lives of multiple characters who share unexpected connections. In the late '50s, Arvin Russell (Tom Holland) is a disturbed young man who has very strong feelings for his childhood friend, Lenora Laferty (Eliza Scanlen). And he's increasingly angry over the way Reverend Preston Teagardin (Robert Pattinson) grooms Lenora for a sexual relationship. Arvin is also aware of the sins of his late father, Willard Russell (Bill Skarsgård), which stay with his son as an adult. What Arvin isn't aware of is that his path is also going to cross with Carl (Jason Clarke) and Sandy Henderson (Riley Keough), a dangerous couple that might like to see him Devil All the Time is streaming on Netflix. The late Euphoria star Angus Cloud had one of his final roles in Your Lucky Day as Sterling, a young man who is badly in need of some luck. Sterling thinks his luck has changed when he overhears a lottery winner, Mr. Laird (Spencer Garrett), bragging about his good fortune. When Sterling demands the ticket at gunpoint, chaos ensues in the convenience store, leaving two gunshot victims and three witnesses: Ana Marlene (Jessica Garza), her boyfriend, Abraham (Elliot Knight), and the store clerk, Amir (Mousa Hussein Kraish). Sterling offers to split the prize money with the witnesses if they help him cover up his crimes. But there are several flaws in Sterling's plan, not the least of which is that he's underestimated what other people are willing to do to get that ticket for themselves. By the time this story concludes, there may not be anyone left to enjoy their fortune. Your Lucky Day is streaming on Netflix. For his directorial debut, screenwriter Oren Uziel unravels the story of Shimmer Lake in reverse by revealing that Andy Sikes (Rainn Wilson) is hiding out from his brother, Sheriff Zeke Sikes (Benjamin Walker), after participating in a bank robbery. And before Uziel shows the audience what happened to set up this situation, he teases a mystery that will unfold during the rest of the film. Andy and his friends, Chris Morrow (Mark Rendall) and Ed Burton (Wyatt Russell), thought they pulled off the heist of their lifetimes. However, this trio may be their own worst enemies, especially when they start turning on each other. They collectively have enough money to do almost anything, but greed may be their downfall. Shimmer Lake is streaming on Netflix. Training Day director Antoine Fuqua and True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto teamed up for The Guilty, a remake of a 2018 Dutch thriller. The vast majority of the movie centers on LAPD officer Joe Baylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) in a single location as the story plays out through his phone is stuck on duty answering 911 calls pending a disciplinary hearing when he receives an alarming call from Emily Lighton (Riley Keough). Emily tells Baylor that she's been abducted, but he has limited resources to find her kidnapper, and most of his fellow officers aren't going to help him. Baylor's partner, Sergeant Bill Miller (Ethan Hawke), reluctantly does some of the legwork, but what he finds at Emily's home is disturbing. And time is running out to locate Emily before another tragedy occurs. The Guilty is streaming on Netflix. Maika Monroe has made a name for herself as a scream queen in movies like It Follows, and she's certainly got a lot of reasons to scream in Watcher. Julia already felt like a stranger in a strange land when she moved to Bucharest with her husband, Francis (Karl Glusman). But she can't escape the sensation that she's always being watched. Torchwood's Burn Gorman gives a creepy performance as Daniel Weber, the man Julia believes is stalking her. Daniel claims that Julia is the one harassing him, which the police find more convincing than her story. There is a serial killer on the loose, and even Julia has to wonder if she's letting her fear rule her actions. She'll get her answer — it just may not be the one she's looking is streaming on Netflix. Director David Fincher never discloses the true name of the title character in The Killer, but Michael Fassbender conveys just how diligent and prepared he is for everything except failure. When the Killer misses his contract, the resources of the high-class criminal underworld are turned against nowhere the Killer can run where he won't be found, so he resolves to track down his would-be murderers first. That may involve burning some bridges and leaving a few more bodies behind, but it's nothing he hasn't done many times Killer is streaming on Netflix. The Good Nurse is loosely based on a true story about Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain), a single mother who works at a hospital alongside a new colleague, Charles Cullen (Eddie Redmayne). Amy finds Charles trustworthy, especially after he agrees to help her keep a secret about her Amy starts to suspect her friend when several patients in their hospital die under suspicious circumstances. Since Amy already blew off the police investigating the case, she'll have to endanger her own life while looking for evidence that Charles is a serial Good Nurse is streaming on Netflix. Gerald's Game is a different kind of horror thriller than Stephen King usually writes, and director Mike Flanagan draws out a lot of tension for a story where the main character is handcuffed to a bed for almost its entire Burlingame (Carla Gugino) only agreed to be bound at the request of her husband, Gerald (Bruce Greenwood). But when Gerald suddenly expires, it leaves Jessie trapped on the bed with little hope for escape. As Jessie's reality breaks down, she sees a monster she calls Moonlight Man (Carel Struycken), who may have come for her husband's soul— and her's as Game is streaming on Netflix. Amanda (Julia Roberts) and Clay Sandford (Ethan Hawke) may have picked the wrong time to go on vacation in Leave the World Behind. Or perhaps they picked the most opportune time without realizing it. The Sandfords and their children rent a cabin in the woods, but even in their isolation, they recognize some troubling events around them. Shortly thereafter, the owner of the cabin, G.H. Scott (Mahershala Ali), arrives with his daughter, Ruth (Myha'la), to take shelter as technology seemingly fails everywhere. What started as a family excursion may turn into a trip that the Sandfords may not come home from. It might even turn out to be the end of the world. Leave the World Behind is streaming on Netflix. Runaway Jury casts John Cusack and Rachel Weisz as a pair of lovers with an audacious plan. In a high-stakes wrongful death trial with a gun manufacturer over its culpability, Marlee (Weisz) contacts the defense and the plaintiff with an offer to sway the jury to either side. And she can do it because Nick (Cusack) is her man on the Fitch (Gene Hackman) is enraged by the attempted blackmail because he has already spent the time and effort stacking the jury in his favor. He's not going to let himself get extorted without a fight. And unlike the plaintiff's lawyer, Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman), Fitch fights dirty, and he doesn't mind getting some proverbial blood on his hands. Runaway Jury is streaming on Netflix.
New Indian Express
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- New Indian Express
Carla Gugino joins David Fincher's Cliff Booth film
Carla Gugino is on board David Fincher's film based on Cliff Booth, alongside Brad Pitt, reported Deadline. Fincher is directing the film, for Netflix, from a script by Quentin Tarantino. Cliff Booth was a character in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, who was a stuntman for Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), a star who is struggling to maintain his relevance. The film also starred Margot Robbie as yesteryear actress Sharon Tate.
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Quentin Tarantino's Massive Pay for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2 Revealed
Dropped in amongst the news that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II would be joining the upcoming Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2, Jeff Sneider of The InSneider also reported that Quentin Tarantino was receiving a big payday for writing the script. According to Sneider's report, Tarantino is getting a whopping $20 million for the script, with Netflix also reportedly offering Leonardo DiCaprio 'millions of dollars' to return and reprise his role as Rick Dalton in a cameo. According to initial reports on the movie, David Fincher and Pitt will reunite to work on a sequel to Quentin Tarantino's 2019 comedy drama, with Pitt reprising his role as stuntman Cliff Booth. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is rumored to be playing a character 'in the vein of Jim Brown, who famously ended his Hall of Fame football career early to focus on acting, starring in such hits as The Dirty Dozen.' According to a separate report from The InSneider's Jeff Sneider, Leonardo DiCaprio — who starred alongside Pitt in the original film — is in talks to join Pitt and Fincher and reprise his role as Rick Dalton. As for Margot Robbie, who played Sharon Tate in the movie, early reports mention that she is also 'available' for the movie should Fincher come calling. As for how this movie came together, The Playlist notes that the script for the film was something that his script for The Movie Critic (which was also rumored to involve Pitt as Booth in some capacity) evolved into over time. Tarantino also has a unique deal with Sony Pictures on the rights to various aspects of Once Upon a Time. A release date for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2 has not yet been announced. (Source: The InSneider) The post Quentin Tarantino's Massive Pay for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2 Revealed appeared first on - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
Business Times
13-06-2025
- Automotive
- Business Times
Maxus Mifa 7 review: This MPV makes sense for one reason
[SINGAPORE] Quentin Tarantino gave us The Hateful Eight, but if this Maxus were a movie, it would be The Sensible 7. Like many electric cars sold here, the once-British-but-now-Chinese brand's Mifa 7 now comes in detuned form to duck under the Category A Certificate Of Entitlement bar. That brings its starting price to S$204,999, making it a good S$14,000 cheaper than the Category B version. Under the floor sits a 90 kilowatt-hour lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery, which is happier at full charge than nickel manganese cobalt packs, so you can top it up to 100 per cent with less fretting about degradation. It delivers a claimed 480 kilometres of range, which works out to less than one plug-in a week for most drivers here. As you might expect, unlike Inglourious Basterds, the Category A Mifa 7 isn't full of explosive action. But also unlike the movie, it actually makes sense. It's a seven-seat electric multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) that's big enough for a big family, but small enough to make easy work of our narrow roads and tight car parks. At 4,910 mm long and 1,885 mm wide, it's about the size of a Mercedes E-Class. If you can handle that, you can handle this. And you can definitely handle the amount of excitement the Mifa 7 dishes out, given how it takes a leisurely 14.7 seconds to reach 100 kmh. That said, even though it sounds like driving the Maxus puts you at risk of being overtaken by the odd glacier, the car does get up to speed with a sense of duty. The motor still biffs out plenty of torque, enough for you to chirp the front tyres if you floor it out of a slow corner, and in the city the Mifa 7 doesn't struggle to keep up with other traffic. A NEWSLETTER FOR YOU Friday, 2 pm Lifestyle Our picks of the latest dining, travel and leisure options to treat yourself. Sign Up Sign Up If it's no fun at all to drive, at least it's easy. Visibility is good, the steering is light, and it doesn't feel like a runaway stagecoach. Instead, its medium-sized footprint means that corralling it in a lane isn't a serious test of skill and concentration. If you do need help, the car comes with lane-keep assist, blind spot monitors, adaptive cruise control and autonomous emergency braking. It also has a little camera that watches you vigilantly, then bongs at you if it senses distracted driving. Annoying? Yes, but admittedly useful. It nagged me whenever I took my eye off the road for too long while looking for something on the 12.3-inch touchscreen. Yet, there are no zero-layer controls, meaning essentials like the climate panel or 360-degree camera view aren't always on screen. If you're bopping along to Spotify with Apple CarPlay, you'll need to exit it just to change the fan speed. And then you get bonged at. While the driver is forced to stay alert, life on board for everyone else is reasonably cushy. At town speeds, the springs and dampers cope with the car's 2.2-tonne mass well, and the air-con system doesn't struggle to fill the vast cabin. The rear has its own climate control panel, plus ceiling vents to keep everyone cool. There is a glass roof for those who love sunshine, and a roller shade for those who hate it. You're meant to fit three people across the third row, and a compact suspension design leaves enough space back there to make it just about doable, although the available width works best for kids. While the second row gets individual chairs, they're not the business class seats that bigger MPVs offer. In fact, the Mifa 7 comes without a flip-down entertainment screen, folding tables, a refrigerator, massaging chairs or flip-up leg rests, all of which are becoming standard fare in the world of Chinese luxury MPVs. To move or recline the middle row seats, you have to use your biceps. Given how the Mifa 7 is much cheaper than bigger, plusher MPVs, the lack of frills is understandable. It's obviously more for family men than businessmen. Yet, the boot space is quoted at just 270 litres with all seats up, and there's no frunk. There's enough capacity for some shopping, a stroller and, apparently, a wheelchair, but when you fold the third row seats you're left with the bench in place. That's one reason the car doesn't feel like it has a proper boot – just some room behind the passengers. Ultimately, the Maxus is a solid people mover that has uniqueness on its side. It isn't as compelling as The Magnificent Seven, but the Mifa 7 is your only ticket to a seven-seat electric MPV with sliding doors in Category A. Maxus Mifa 7 Luxury Motor power/Torque 145 hp / 350 Nm Battery type/Net capacity Lithium-ion / 90 kWh Charging time/Type 8.5 hours (11 kW AC), 40 minutes 5 to 80 per cent (120 kW DC) Range 480 km 0-100 kmh 14.7 seconds Top speed 170 kmh Efficiency 20.5 kWh / 100 km Agent Cycle & Carriage Maxus Price S$204,999 with COE Available Now
Eater
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Eater
Highly Opinionated: Eater Editors' Favorite Movie Theater Popcorn in Los Angeles
Popcorn can make or break the movie-going experience. A fresh, hot tub of salty popcorn can make even bad movies feel enjoyable, while a stale bag of hard kernels is enough to dampen even the best films. While chains like AMC offer fairly standardized popcorn, other theaters across Los Angeles, such as Tarantino's Vista Theatre in Los Feliz and the dine-in Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown, serve their own versions of the classic movie snack, topped with classic drawn butter, churro seasoning, and even truffle garlic. We've spent innumerable hours at theaters across Los Angeles, catching midnight screenings, the latest action flick, and 70 mm showings of cult classics. Between the three of us, pounds of popcorn tossed in butter (and imitations of butter) have likely been demolished. As regulars at the movies, we've tried it all — from adequate chain offerings to stale bags, all in search of that perfect, hot, buttery popcorn bucket. After lifetimes of research, here is where to find the best popcorn at Los Angeles theaters. At a 10 a.m. screening of Charlie's Angels , the smell of popcorn is already wafting out the front doors at the Vista Theatre, which stands at the crossroads of Silver Lake, East Hollywood, and Los Feliz. First opened in 1923 as Lou Bard Playhouse or Bard's Hollywood, the Vista eventually shuttered permanently in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as it seemed like it might never reopen, Quentin Tarantino purchased the property, adding to his Los Angeles theater portfolio that includes the New Beverly. After two years of renovations and the installation of a new 70 mm projection setup, the Vista reopened in 2023. Tarantino's Vista has retained all the charm of the original, sprucing up the once-faded exterior paint on the marquee and introducing the adjoining coffee shop, Pam's Coffy. The interior, with its cone-shaped glass chandeliers and unsettling statuesque heads, remains largely unchanged. Before the picture starts, the staff warns that they are quite serious about the no-cell-phone-use policy, and any violators will be swiftly removed. The theater only has a single auditorium (plus a 20-seat hidden video club), so unlike larger chains, everyone will be seeing the same movie, together. That captures a feeling lost by the ever-expanding chains, with their tightly packed reclining seats and rising concession and ticket costs, which makes seeing a movie feel out of reach for so many. A single concessions stand located just beyond the front doors serves the entire Vista. Candy is displayed in neat stacks in a glass cabinet set into the counter, while the popcorn machine bathed in yellow light rumbles as kernels erupt from the suspended steel pot. Even the largest popcorn size comes in at under $10. The warm kernels are tossed with real butter, which outperforms flavored oils in every way. The fattiness coats the entire piece, enveloping it in a pleasant saltiness and an inimitable, creamy butter flavor. Joining the popcorn and candy at concessions are hot dogs (regular and vegan), White Castle burgers (kept fresh in a warmer), RC Cola from the fountain, glass bottles of Mexican Coke, and a selection of beer and wine. The Vista disavows seat reservations, so go early, grab a bucket of popcorn, and settle in for a movie — previews and all. — Rebecca Roland, editor, Eater Southern California/Southwest Alamo Drafthouse regulars know that the full-service model makes the Downtown theater one of the best cinematic experiences in Southern California. Located inside the Bloc on Seventh and Flower Streets, a handful of systems are in place to ensure an enjoyable visit. Programmers blend a mix of new and old by running Wes Anderson's latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, playing on the same day as the 1995 cult classic, Showgirls . The Austin-based chain has a firm rule on latecomers, forbidding entry after the movie starts, and will boot disruptive guests (especially those talking or texting) without a refund. Placing food and drink orders while watching a movie is one of the Alamo's best features, with goodies like pizzas, cheeseburgers, and beer or cocktails delivered right to one's seat. DTLA's Alamo might as well be a museum with its extensive movie poster artwork placed throughout. Alamo's reclining puffy chairs are an especially cozy touch. Right next to the entry is the Video Vortex bar and video store, where you can find old-school games and even karaoke after dark. Even driving through the whimsical, round parking garage can be fun. It sounds ideal, right? But we haven't even begun to talk about the popcorn. The bottomless buckets of popcorn at Alamo Drafthouse are a must-order. Staff work overtime to keep the servings freshly made with a nice balance of clarified butter. As for toppings, it's hard to beat the spicy ranch and truffle Parmesan flavors, with recent additions of chile garlic, churro, and dill pickle. For the very hungry and adventurous, it's entirely possible to try different flavors in one sitting. — Mona Holmes, editor, Eater Southern California/Southwest It seems impossible that a movie theater with an attached video movie rental is busy and thriving in 2025, but here we are. The current Vidiots opened in 2022 with a plan that keeps its Eagle Rock theater packed most nights. The establishment is a wonderful throwback to the '80s and '90s, when Vidiots first opened in Santa Monica on Third and Pico, blocks away from the ocean. The OG Vidiots catered to indie and overlooked films before closing in 2017, which is what the current version still does. At a May screening of Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense , beer and wine-holding moviegoers danced in front of the screen. And though it seems that a 30-plus-year-old movie would never sell out, this screening barely had any seats available. Ask for freshly made popcorn, and head straight to the adjacent topping bar, which can help with customization. Sprinkle dehydrated ranch, cheesy jalapeno, white cheddar, or the highly underrated and wonderfully salty nutritional yeast onto popped kernels. After a screening, it's fairly common for theatergoers to trek less than a half-mile to the nearby Walt's Bar or Capri Club, depending on the movie showtimes. In all, it's a fun way to hang out in Eagle Rock. — Mona Holmes, editor, Eater Southern California/Southwest As the sun sets in Gardena, a landlocked suburb in the South Bay, the lights turn on over the colorful Gardena Cinema marquee, where films like Jason Goes to Hell and There Will Be Blood promise classic films for movie lovers. The classic one-screen theater has been operated by Judy Kim and her family since 1976, accommodating a massive 800 people when fully occupied, though on this particular night, the second showing of Stanley Kubrick's war movie Full Metal Jacket drew in about a dozen viewers. The entire experience at Gardena Cinema feels pulled out of the 1980s; a booth up front issues torn tickets, neon graces the front lobby, while posters adorn the walls. Ever since Gardena Cinema dropped its approach of showing first-run movies and switched to classics, it's made the prospect of watching a movie here all the more nostalgic. My only wish would be for places like this to never go away so that I can come here with my son when he's old enough, so he knows what it was like when I went to the movies growing up. The concessions situation at Gardena Cinema punches well above its weight. Hot dogs twirl back and forth along a 7-11-style warmer, plump and snappy with a decent condiment bar featuring mayonnaise, Tapatio hot sauce, ketchup, and relish. There are dozens of candies and chips, and even Korean instant cheese ramen. A popcorn machine makes small batches, priced at $6.95 for a small and up to $10.95 for a large. Refill your popcorn for half the price. Instead of actual clarified butter, Gardena Cinema dresses popcorn with a vegan soy oil that tastes like butter so that it can accommodate vegans and those with lactose intolerance. Kim said over email that flavoring the popcorn with Flavacol, a butter-flavored seasoned salt, after popping it makes it 'more noticeable,' and makes movie theater popcorn special. It's hard to argue with the results. Gardena Cinema's popcorn is laden with seed oil fat, but tastes nutty and toasted, crisp without feeling drenched. Fine salt from the Flavacol gives it that MSG-level seasoning without actual MSG, a nice sleight of hand. I wolfed down the entire small bag of popcorn by myself and made it through the darkly comic but gruesome first half of Full Metal Jacket , my stomach unsettled not from the popcorn but from Kubrick's macabre film. I almost wish there was an intermission between the halves so I could get a refill of Gardena Cinema's excellent popcorn. — Matthew Kang, lead editor, Eater Southern California/Southwest Los Feliz 3: This tiny neighborhood theater in Los Feliz is part of American Cinematheque, which also operates the Egyptian and the Aero Theatre. The popcorn here falls on the saltier side and has no frills. It's affordable by the bucket, and given the small size of the theater, concession lines are never too long. New Beverly: New Beverly serves the same concession lineup as the Vista, promising fresh butter, freshly popped kernels, and affordable prices. Landmark's Nuart Theatre: The flagship of arthouse theater chain Landmark, the Nuart Theatre screens a mix of cult-classics, documentaries, and other hard-to-find films. Popcorn, hot dogs, pretzels, beer, wine, and more are on the concession menu here. See More:
