Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Thief

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Michael Mann | 1981 | 122 min | US Thieves should really try to stop at the second-to-last big score, because that last big score always ...
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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Death Wish 3

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Michael Winner | 1985 | 92 min | USA East New York City, 1985: a time when crime ran rampant and cars exploded at the slightest provocation....
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Harry Brown

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Daniel Barber | 2009 | 97 mins | UK I don't really like to open with glib "it's like X meets Y but with more zazz!" descri...
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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Vanishing Act

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David Greene | 1986 | 95 mins | USA This comedy-tinged whodunit stars Elliott Gould as Lieutenant Rudameyer, a New York cop transplanted int...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Man on a Swing

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Frank Perry | 1974 | 110 mins | USA Director Frank Perry followed up '72's awesome Play It As It Lays with this strange thriller, l...
Monday, December 22, 2008

Terribly Happy [Frygtelig lykkelig]

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Henrik Ruben Genz | 2008 | 90 mins | Denmark Terribly Happy is loosely based on some very grizzly real-life events, and it's the kind o...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Harry and Walter Go to New York

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Mark Rydell | 1976 | 115 mins | USA I love Elliott Gould more than could be expressed in a simple blog post. I'd rather watch him on scr...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Road House

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Jean Negulesco | 1948 | 95 mins | USA No, this isn't the Patrick Swayze film by the same name. This is another Ida Lupino gem that I dis...

While The City Sleeps

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Fritz Lang | 1956 | 100 mins | USA I'm not sure if this Fritz Lang gem is "little known" or if I've been under a rock late...
Thursday, October 23, 2008

The Big Fix

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Jeremy Kagan | 1978 | 108 mins | USA A very young and astonishingly charming Richard Dreyfuss stars as an ex Berkley activist turned private...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

The Last of Sheila

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Herbert Ross | 1973 | 120 mins | USA I love gambling in a video store on something I've never heard of that either has an interesting ca...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

The Thin Man

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W.S. Van Dyke | 1934 | 93 mins | USA If you find the this-year's- Juno tone of the advertising for Nick and Norah's Infinite Playli...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

L'instinct de mort (Public Enemy Number One: Part One) - Work in Progress

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Jean-François Richet | 2008 | 114 min | France/Canada Vincent Cassel stars as notorious French gangster, Jacques Mesrine in this action-biop...
Monday, September 08, 2008

In The Shadow of the Naga

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Nasorn Panungkasiri | 2008 | 94 mins | Thailand At first glance, the description of In The Shadow of the Naga makes it sound a lot like the...

Nothing But The Truth

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Rod Lurie | 2008 | 108 mins | USA An American political drama starring Kate Beckinsale and David Schwimmer is pretty much the complete oppos...
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Saturday, September 06, 2008

Gomorrah

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Matteo Garrone | 2008 | 135 min | Italy The Gomorrah are one of Italy's largest crime organizations, but until now, nobody has dared mak...
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Friday, September 05, 2008

JCVD

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Mabrouk El Mechri | 2008 | 96 min | Belgium, France Imagine Jean-Claude Van Damme starring in a seventies Sidney Lumet crime film. Now imag...
Friday, August 22, 2008

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

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Sidney Lumet | 2007 | 117 min | US Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke play Andy and Hank, two brothers who possess veneers of success an...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The Manchurian Candidate

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John Frankenheimer | 1962 | 126 mins | USA There are some movies that I feel a bit ashamed to admit I haven’t seen yet. Classics, all-time f...

Paranoid Park

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Gus Van Sant | 2007 | 85 min | US Gus Van Sant does some serious channeling of Harmony Korine's youthful verve for this picture in an at...
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