Searching
That blink-and-you’ll-miss-it alien invasion subplot aside, 2018’s Searching is really more of a thriller than a genre movie. Its Archive 81 connection is the fact that it relies almost solely on technology to solve a potentially terrible crime, following a father (Cowboy Bebop’s John Cho) as he frantically combs through his teen daughter’s computer and phone, gathering scraps of evidence and clues as he tries to puzzle together her whereabouts. The other thing it has in common with Archive 81 is that it makes the act of watching a character staring at a computer a genuinely nail-biting experience, much like watching Dan and his video tapes.
