Tag: Blow
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‘Black Box’ Review: Geeky French Thriller Sifts Through the Pieces of a Suspicious Plane Crash
Buckle up. “Black Box” is the kind of smart, taut conspiracy thriller Hollywood used to consistently make, only this one hails from France, which has been beating the American studios at their own game lately in the good-movies-for-grown-ups department. Centered on the eponymous device, recovered from a freak airplane accident, this engaging if slightly overlong…
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Driven review – stranger-than-fiction tale of drugs and DeLoreans
Jason Sudeikis and Lee Pace star in a flashy true-crime thriller about the an FBI informant and his car-making cronyScreenwriter and novelist Colin Bateman has here scripted a flashy but watchable true-crime thriller in the style of American Made (2017) or Blow (2001).It’s based on the stranger-than-fiction case of Jim Hoffman, a drug-runner and FBI…