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Hollywood thrillers in which sophisticated, attractive city folk move to creaky old country homes and experience scary things are a dime a dozen. Less common is when those Hollywood thrillers are based on the theology of 18th-century Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. But here we are a Sweden borgian thriller and thus it’s not a bad idea to read up a bit on the man, by which we mean to Google him, before diving into “Things Heard & Seen,” a well-cast and often entertaining but campy and sometimes obvious thriller starring Amanda Seyfried and James Norton. What you’ll learn is that Swedenborg believed (among other things) that death was just a continuation of life and that people lived on, in the spiritual world, past the expiration of their physical body. For the film’s purposes, we’ll boil it down for you: Ghosts! In fact the film, based on the novel “All Things Cease to Appear” by Elizabeth Brundage, begins with a Swedenborg quote: “Things that
Review: Seyfried lends grounding presence to campy thriller
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This image released by Amazon shows Michael B. Jordan in a scene from Tom Clancy s Without Remorse. (Nadja Klier/Amazon via AP)
In the new Tom Clancy adaptation, Without Remorse, Michael B. Jordan is a Navy SEAL about to trade military life for private security when his pregnant wife (Lauren London) is executed in their Washington D.C. home. It’s part of a calculated ambush: The assassins are picking off the men in his unit because of a mishap in Aleppo where the Americans attacked the Russian military instead of Syrians. They were following orders without knowing the full story and soon the Russians are in the U.S. retaliating. Jordan’s John Kelly was the target, but he happened to be on the couch with noise cancelling headphones and not the bed when they broke into his home.