This New Thriller Takes Place Almost Entirely Inside Apps

San Francisco Magazine Ian A. Stewart Sebastian Baron/Sony Pictures Scary. How’s this for raising the degree of difficulty on your first feature film? Some of the tensest moments of Searching, the new thriller from South Bay–born director Aneesh Chaganty, are spent watching a Google Drive spreadsheet being filled in. That’s because the entire film, about a father (John Cho) and his frantic search for his missing daughter, takes place on a computer screen: Facebook, FaceTime, and yes, even ...