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This week, Netflix released a bombshell announcement that the streaming giant had secured the exclusive U.S. rights to stream Sony Pictures’ upcoming slate of releases including
Venom: There Will Be Carnage and the upcoming
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
As for new releases of films available to stream and rent at home, we’ve got the much-delayed and finally released Biggie Smalls murder thriller
City of Lies, Netflix’s new superhero buddy comedy
Thunder Force starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer, the intense homebound horror mystery thriller
Held starring Jill Awbrey (
All We Have Left) and Bart Johnson (
Review: New thriller Held is a #MeToo film that relies on twists instead of tact
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Review: Love, marriage, surveillance, torture in suspense thriller Held
A couple are put through the wringer in horror movie from Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing
Adam Graham
A vacationing couple is put through a particularly grueling round of marriage counseling in Held, a thriller that despite being clumsy manages to hold viewers attention longer than anticipated.
It s the kind of try-anything suspense tale that throws so much out there it tends to morph into something new every 15 minutes or so.
It starts off with Emma Barrett (Jill Awbrey, who wrote the film) being driven to a vacation home in an extremely remote location. No one is around for miles, and her driver asks a few too many questions and acts a little too creepy. Better keep an eye on him.
4/9/2021
Couples therapy takes a sadistic twist in the new thriller by Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff, directors of The Gallows.
A married couple endure a particularly horrific form of relationship therapy in the new thriller directed by Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff, the team responsible for the surprise low-budget horror hit
The Gallows. Cannily exploiting #MeToo themes and the opportunities for cinematic mayhem provided by technology-driven smart homes,
Held proves an uncommonly thoughtful and provocative suspenser.
The story begins with Emma (Jill Awbrey, who also wrote the screenplay) being transported to a luxuriously modernistic, gated rental house by a chatty ride-hailing driver (Rez Kempton). After enjoying the home s pleasures, including a swimming pool, in solitary fashion, she s soon joined by her husband Henry (Bart Johnson, here working in far different territory from his recurring role in Disney s