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Saturday: Whiplash (2014) BBC2, 11.20pm - Nineteen-year-old drummer Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is determined to excel at his Manhattan music conservatory, so he practises night and day and catches the eye of the school s most revered teacher, Terence Fletcher (JK Simmons).
The hard work pays off and Andrew transfers to Fletcher s class, but the game of one-upmanship between teacher and pupil spirals out of control as Andrew sweats blood and tears to meet the lofty expectations of his maniacal mentor.
Inspired by writer-director Damien Chazelle s experiences in a fiercely competitive high-school jazz band, Whiplash is an electrifying thriller that delivers one emotional wallop after another. Teller delivers a bravura performance complemented by Simmons jaw-dropping, Oscar-winning portrayal of the foul-mouthed, bullying conductor.
10 Cloverfield Lane Was the Perfect Claustrophobic Paranoid Thriller for the 2010s
10 Cloverfield Lane arrived five years ago this month, and it serves as an interesting time capsule. It’s an ambitious and underappreciated thriller, one that offers a snapshot of the decade’s simmering tensions.
10 Cloverfield Lane is arguably best understood as part of a wave of intensely paranoid and claustrophobic thrillers that arrived between 2015 and 2016. Characters in these thrillers often found themselves trapped or confined, at the mercy of a seemingly hostile world outside and often a more immediate threat inside. It’s an unexplored trend in the pop culture of that moment. Examined in hindsight, it feels hauntingly prescient.
The 50 Best Movies of the 21st Century and Where to Stream Them
By Brianna Zigler, Stacker News
On 1/22/21 at 8:00 PM EST
Although some hardened cinephiles may argue that the true film masterpieces exist primarily in the movies of the 20th century, the past two decades have brought with them enduring cinema staples that arguably earned their place among the very best in the genre. With directors of the prestigious New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 60s and 70s still alive and creating as good of work as ever, alongside modern and older auteurs and up-and-comers around the world carving their own distinct paths in the film industry, there is enough groundwork laid out between 2000 and 2020 to distinguish this century s own classic canon.