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Conspiracy thriller films have a way of sticking with our minds maybe it’s because they show that the authorities are hiding something and we know that actually might be true or maybe it’s just thrilling to uncover a large conspiracy even in a fictional world. We thought of compiling a list of the best and most thrilling conspiracy movies and we have only included the films that are entertaining and have a large conspiracy in their story. So, here are the 10 best conspiracy thriller movies you shouldn’t miss out on.

All the President’s Men (Rent on Prime Video)

All the President’s Men is a biographical political thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula from a screenplay by William Goldman. Based on a 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by authors Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the 1976 film is set during the 1972 elections and it follows the story...

Charlie Kaufman's surreal and heartsick film "I'm Thinking of Ending Things," based on the 2016 novel by Iain Reed, was handily one of the best films of 2020. Intellectually burning and pathetically self-involved — by design — "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" takes place in a psychological dreamscape where reality is mutable and every character appears to be representative of an oblique Jungian archetype. The lead character, played by Jessie Buckley, is only credited as "Young Woman," and throughout the film, she is called Lucia, Louisa, Lucy, and Ames. Her boyfriend Jake (Jesse Plemons) is a distant and vague figure in her life. Jake, it will eventually be revealed, might have been imagining Young Woman throughout the entire film. She is likely a symbol in his mind. That even an imagined girlfriend hates him and is thinking of ending things surely says a lot about Jake and his psyche.

As a filmmaker, Kaufman...

Eyes of Fire is an interesting film. A low-budget horror venture from the mind of Avery Crounse, it is a curious amalgam of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sam Raimi. The storyline is a familiar one. Set in the 1700s, Reverend Will Smythe (Dennis Lipscomb) is a zealous preacher who entrances the simple Irish immigrant folk of Dalton’s Ferry. In between his fire and brimstone sermons, he can be found burning “witches” for heresy in his spare time. He becomes romantically involved with Eloise (Rebecca Stanley), the wife of settlement founder, Marion Dalton (Guy Boyd), an avid woodsman who goes on extended hunting trips to forage for the village. Of course, since he isn’t there to address his spouse’s needs, she turns to Will for spiritual guidance...

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I’M Thinking Of Ending Things Netflix Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Charlie Kaufman Writer: Charlie Kaufman, Iain Reid, based on Iain Reid’s book of the same title. Cast: Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis, Guy Boyd, Hadley Robinson Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 12/9/20 Opens: […]

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I’m Thinking of Ending Things Review — I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020) Video Movie Review, a Netflix movie written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, and stars Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis, Guy Boyd, Hadley Robinson, Gus Birney, Abby Quinn, and Colby Minifie. In this video review, I talk about the [...]

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"As a person of privilege and a male who has been correctly chastised and silenced by the emergent culture, I recognize I have no right to feel bad for myself and certainly no right to publicly bemoan my circumstances. [...] But the truth is, I do feel invisible. And on those rare occasions when I am seen, I feel judged most harshly." — Charlie Kaufman, Antkind The pop reflexivity of Charlie Kaufman's oeuvre presumes truth's impossibility. It declares that there are no windows, only funhouse mirrors. In this tortuous carnival, the Kaufman man—white and stubbornly straight, plain and dim-witted—has no choice but to look at himself, and he never likes what he sees. To borrow the unsparing words Orson Welles reserved for Woody Allen, the Kaufman man contains a "particular combination of arrogance and timidity [that] sets my teeth on edge." Because all meaning is relative on this solipsistic planet, he...

After producing Charlie Kaufman’s stop-motion “Anomalisa” feature, Rosa Tran couldn’t resist overseeing the brief, hand-drawn excursions for his surreal road trip movie, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things.” They consisted of the creepy black-and-white Tulsey Town ice cream commercial and the painterly-looking, glowing pig (voiced by Oliver Platt) that follows a naked high school janitor (Guy Boyd) during a live-action sequence.

Good thing Tran had plenty of context and reference material to draw on: she didn’t have time to read Kaufman’s mind-bending script (freely adapted from Iain Reid’s provocative 2016 novel). Tran was glad she had a baseline for how to work with Kaufman. “He talked about this naked janitor and what he was going through as he was hallucinating,” said Tran, who is currently working on Season 3 of the 2D-animated “Final Space” series for TBS and prepping Seth Rogen’s stop-motion “Santa Inc.” for HBO Max.

Netflix chiller I’m Thinking of Ending Things has arrived to confuse and bemuse. It’s based on the novel by Iain Reid, which is also a mystery, and it’s adapted by Charlie Kaufman, a man with a history of playing around with concepts of fiction and reality in his screenplays such as Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York.

I’m Thinking of Ending Things is no less oblique, no less confusing, particularly if you haven’t read the book and only want to watch the movie once. Yep it’s a movie, and a book, which really requires you to watch/read twice to actually fully understand.

And even then things aren’t crystal clear or cut and dried. However, here’s our attempt to explain what’s going on.

Jake and the narrator

Even though we are told the story through the eyes...

[Editor’s note: This article contains major spoilers about the plot of “I’m Thinking of Ending Things.”]

Charlie Kaufman is not a fan of solving movies for his audience. “I’m not really big on explaining what things are,” the writer-director said in a phone interview. “I let people have their experiences, so I don’t really have expectations about what people are going to think. I really do support anybody’s interpretation.”

Nevertheless, nothing in Kaufman’s head-spinning repertoire has begged for answers more than “I’m Thinking of Ending Things.” His scripts for “Being John Malkovich” and “Adaptation” took bizarre labyrinthine paths into the troubled male psyche, a journey he continued with directing efforts “Synecdoche, New York” and “Anomalisa.” In his new Netflix-produced feature, however, Kaufman has built a story steeped in the details of a single troubled mind, and littered it with so many references it practically demands a masterclass in semiotics to parse them all.

That’s by design.

"You don't have to go. "Don't have to go where?" "Forward." Netflix has unveiled the first official trailer for I'm Thinking of Ending Things, a brand new Charlie Kaufman film that he has written and directed, his latest since Anomalisa debuted in 2015. Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself. Based on Iain Reid's acclaimed novel of same name. The very talented Jessie Buckley stars in this, with the very talented Jesse Plemons as her boyfriend, and a fantastic cast including Toni Collette, David Thewlis, Colby Minifie, Guy Boyd, and a plenty of others in small roles. The book is already very popular, telling a story with lots of hidden meanings and clever twists. It looks like Kaufman is digging in deep to all the various ideas entangled in this story.

Oscar winner Russell Crowe is nearly unrecognizable in The Loudest Voice, Showtime’s limited series based on the life of the late, disgraced Roger Ailes. The seven-part drama, which premiered Sunday, chronicles Ailes’ career as the founder of conservative news empire Fox News Channel, from his days as a right-wing media juggernaut, to his eventual fall from grace after a series of sexual harassment allegations.

After opening on Ailes’ lifeless body upon his death in 2017, we journey back to 1995, following his departure from CNBC. Ailes had been terminated following a human resources investigation, and we catch up with him as...

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for the first season of “The Young Pope.”]

The finale of “The Young Pope’s” first (but hopefully not final) season was a true test of faith for some fans, leaving them with more questions than they had going into the episode.

Lenny Belardo (Jude Law), aka Pope Pius Xiii, finally showed his face to address his flock with the global message to “smile,” but after spying what looked like his elderly parents in the crowd, he collapsed. It is unclear if this event presages his imminent death or if he’ll merely be sidelined while recovering. We’re not even sure if the show will continue another season or if/how Lenny’s future would play out in it. Seeking enlightenment, IndieWire turned to the show’s creator Paolo Sorrentino, who agreed to answer our burning questions.

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Eyes Of Fire screens Tuesday, November 8th at 7:30pm in 35mm at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 E Lockwood Ave,) as part of The St. Louis International Film Festival. The screening will be introduced by We Are Movie Geeks own Tom Stockman

A few years back, Cinema St. Louis by chance came into possession of a 35mm print of Eyes Of Fire, an unjustly forgotten horror film shot more than three decades ago in the backwoods of the Missouri Ozarks. It was the directorial debut of experimental photographer Avery Crounse. For the 25th anniversary of the St. Louis International Film Festival, Cinema St. Louis feels duty-bound to give a respectful nod to their celluloid past — every other work in the fest screens digitally — by cracking open the film cans and offering a rare opportunity to view this criminally underseen gem in glorious 35mm. The event takes place at 7:30pm on Wednesday.

This weekend’s onslaught of smaller new films will have awards contenders and big names to jostle with at the box office. Awards hopefuls Foxcatcher and The Homesman begin their theatrical runs in limited New York and L.A. rollouts, with the former a likely winner in the first weekend when the numbers come in Sunday. The films from Sony Pictures Classics and Roadside Attractions, respectively, tell particularly American stories, though from very different eras. The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart took time off in 2013 to work on his directorial debut. Open Road’s Rosewater, starring Gael García Bernal, will begin its theatrical rollout this weekend. It will be the biggest opener of this weekend’s cadre of specialty newcomers, playing in several hundred locations in the U.S. and Canada. Actor Chris Lowell also makes his filmmaking launch with Beside Still Waters. The project had smooth sailing until it came time for distribution,...

Arts in the Armed Forces (Aitaf) will hold its 6th Annual Veterans Day event in honor of the United States Armed Forces on Monday night, Nov. 10, at Studio 54 in N.Y., with a reading of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Our Lady of 121st Street. Girls’ Adam Driver, Marine and Aitaf founder, and Listen Up Phillip’s Joanne Tucker, Aitaf artistic director, are hosting and producing the event. “From the moment I first read the play, I saw both the people I served with and the military community as a whole in its characters,” Driver wrote in an email. “It’s filled...