Kingdom of the spiders
Not one for Aachnophobes, Kingdom stars William shatner as a vet who teams up with a hot insect expert played by Tiffany Bolling in order to stop an Invasion of deadly spiders displaced from their natural habitat through the use of pesticides. These days a film like this would be purely CG but here it uses genuine spiders in every scene dousing the cast in torrents of tarantulas at every given opportunity. Director John "Bud" Cardos delivers the goods in a brilliantly directed, well paced and surprisingly harsh nature gone amok film.
Nightcrawler
Jake Gyllenhall plays an outright sociopath who Decides he's going to corner the market in crime scene footage for local news. Fortunately he lacks any sense of ethics or morality so he quickly rises to the top. Possibly one of my top 10 films from 2014 it still holds up today. Gyllenhall plays a classic screen psycho and the film is great at ratcheting up the tension in scenes like the aftermath of the home invasion and the final pursuit of the criminals.
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