Edgar Allen Poe has been the focus of many a cinematographer’s lens, from films like “The Raven” and “The Pit…
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The heist picture scene is littered with so many bank jobs, one often forgets the elegance of cat burglary unless…
Denzel Washington and Clive Owen star in “Inside Man” – a quite literal title of a heist movie that tries…
I remember when I first heard about “The Purge.” I was excited because of its concept – but it ended…
Dan Gilroy, the director who brought us the powerful “Nightcrawler” in 2014, releases another introspective drama here with “Roman J.…
“No Country For Old Men,” like “Fargo,” “Reservoir Dogs,” and like dramas, paints a crime, the opportunists seeking to take…
“Dog Day Afternoon” deconstructs the idea of the heist picture. In fact, it may not be a heist movie at…
Midway through “Ocean’s 8,” the spin-off of the “Ocean’s” trilogy, Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) tells Lou (Cate Blanchett) that there’s no…
In “Ocean’s Thirteen,” our gang return to Vegas when a sleazy casino owner Willy Bank (Al Pacino) double-crosses Reuben (Elliot Gould).…
At the opening of “Gran Torino” we see a stone-faced Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) standing alone at the front of…