Actor Garret Dillahunt (1964)

Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) is based on Delia Owens’ novel of the same name and was directed by Olivia Newman. The screenplay was written by Lucy Alibar, with production by Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter. Set in a North Carolina marsh in 1953, the story follows Kya’s life after her family falls apart. Left alone with their abusive and alcoholic father, Kya eventually finds herself abandoned at just seven ...

Ambulance (2022) is an American heist action thriller film, directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by Chris Fedak. A collaboration between New Republic Pictures, Project X Entertainment and Bay Films, it is a remake of the 2005 Danish film Ambulancen. Will Sharp, a former Marine and Afghanistan veteran, desperately seeks $231,000 for his wife Amy’s experimental cancer surgery. He turns to his lifelong criminal adoptive brother Danny for help. Together they plan a $32 million bank heist. Despite some initial hesitation, Will agrees when Danny ...

Fear the Walking Dead (2015–2023), an American post-apocalyptic horror drama series by creators Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson for AMC, serves as a spin-off of The Walking Dead. The show follows the initial stages of the zombie outbreak in the West coast, coinciding with Rick’s coma in Atlanta. Unlike its predecessor, Fear highlights the strain already present in the South while only emerging in California. Taking place in the same universe as The Walking Dead, this gritty drama delves into the early days of the undead apocalypse through the eyes of a ...

The Road (2009), an American post-apocalyptic film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Joe Penhall, is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. It follows a father and son as they struggle to survive in a world ravaged by an unspecified catastrophe that wiped out all plant and animal life. Together, they travel along a road towards the coast in search of safety, scrounging for resources and avoiding violent gangs of cannibals armed with guns. Years earlier, the man’s wife gives birth to their ...

No Country for Old Men (2007), an American neo-Western crime thriller film directed and written by Joel and Ethan Coen, is based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel with the same name. In 1980, Anton Chigurh, a hitman, is arrested in Texas but manages to escape by strangling a sheriff’s deputy. He then steals a car using a captive bolt pistol to kill the driver. Meanwhile, Llewelyn Moss is hunting pronghorns in the desert when he stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong. Among the scene are several dead men, a wounded ...

The American epic revisionist Western film, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), is a retelling of the events leading up to the titular killing. Written and directed by Andrew Dominik and based on Ron Hansen’s novel of the same name, it portrays the relationship between Jesse James and Robert Ford. In 1881, a starstruck young man named Robert ‘Bob’ Ford seeks out Jesse James while the James Gang plans a train robbery in Blue Cut, Missouri. Despite his brother Charley being a member of the gang, Bob’s attempts to join are unsuccessful. The robbery is not as successful as hoped and Frank James leaves while Jesse ...