Filmmakers who create thrillers should absorb the lesson that simpler is usually better. An excellent primer would be John Hyams' lean, mean suspenser that delivers its undeniably familiar plot mechanics in tightly paced, unadorned fashion.

Depicting the struggle for survival of a young woman who has the unfortunate luck to encounter a homicidal stalker on the sparsely populated highways of the Pacific Northwest, Alone proves a highly effective genre exercise.

The film's early section recalls Steven Spielberg's classic Duel as it includes a vehicular cat-and-mouse game between Jessica (a very good Jules Willcox, Netflix's Bloodline) and the driver of a black Jeep Grand Cherokee who seems to be deliberately messing with her.

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Brett Bull Each January, the Motion Picture Producers Assn. of Japan holds a press conference to reveal the previous year’s box office data and its list of top-grossing films.One year ago — at what was then thought to be the height of the coronavirus pandemic — the event was a somber gathering: Receipts for 2020 were down a whopping 38% over the year before.On Jan.

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12.02.2022 / 10:23

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s widower prince on adopting an adult son: ‘I tried very hard to find somebody’

Prince Frederic von Anhalt, Zsa Zsa Gabor’s ninth and final husband, was desperate for an heir – so he adopted an adult son and chronicled it on TV. The widower is one of many subjects featured on A&E’s "Adults Adopting Adults," which chronicles his quest to find someone in Beverly Hills who could inherit his estate and care for him. "I tried very hard to find somebody," the 78-year-old told Fox News Digital.

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12.02.2022 / 10:13

'It was always his dream' - Hannibal Mejbri's journey to becoming Manchester United's latest young star

Hannibal Mejbri admitted he found it 'difficult' to understand his Manchester United team-mates' Mancunian accents in 2019.

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12.02.2022 / 10:13

Berlin Fresh Faces: ‘Stay Awake’ Producer Shrihari Sathe

Naman Ramachandran Producer Shrihari Sathe of New York-based production company Dialectic is enjoying the best time of his life, with no less than three of his projects, each completely different in style, genre and tone, being selected at A-list festivals.The latest career high for Sathe began with Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s continent-hopping, multilingual identity tale “No Land’s Man” being selected at Busan in October 2021, followed by Francisca Alegria’s Spanish-language magical realist drama “The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future” premiering at this year’s Sundance. Now, “Stay Awake,” an expansion of Jamie Sisley’s 2015 short film of the same name that premiered at the Berlinale and won the Jury Prize at Slamdance, makes its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival’s Generation 14plus strand on Feb. 12.

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12.02.2022 / 10:13

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It's a quick turnaround for Manchester City as they prepare to continue their Premier League title defence against Norwich City on Saturday afternoon.

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12.02.2022 / 10:09

COVID on Screen: Are Movies and TV Avoiding the Pandemic?

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentIn the early days of what we used to call “coronavirus” in March 2020, before we all became budding epidemiologists, people flocked to Steven Soderbergh’s eerily prophetic 2011 drama “Contagion” on streaming services. Within a month or so, the movie was propelled from the 270th slot to the second most watched film in the Warner Bros.

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12.02.2022 / 10:09

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12.02.2022 / 10:09

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12.02.2022 / 09:51

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12.02.2022 / 09:51

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12.02.2022 / 09:49

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24.09.2020 / 20:53

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23.09.2020 / 20:36

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23.09.2020 / 20:27

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23.09.2020 / 20:12

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22.09.2020 / 20:39

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22.09.2020 / 20:14

Carey Mulligan Joins Cast of Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein Film ‘Maestro’

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22.09.2020 / 00:17

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13.09.2020 / 13:17

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