thriller
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"We did a 12-hour shift or maybe more every day for 'Mrs Deshpande'," she told AFP, mentioning the 2025 crime thriller.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
Actor Tommy Dorfman snatched up the rights to write and direct the body thriller.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
The featured trailer promoted “One Spoon of Chocolate,” the RZA’s recently released blaxploitation-style revenge thriller, but the show also pushed other official Wu-Tang merchandise, including a video game.
From Salon • May 31, 2026
“Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed” is also a joy to watch, with Tatiana Maslany bouncing from one crisis to another in a relentlessly propulsive dark-comedy crime thriller.
From MarketWatch • May 31, 2026
They were almost all books for grown-ups: a well-worn thriller, a book about snakes, another about Alexander the Great, the Odyssey.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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