Crime

Guy Ritchie has had quite an interesting career. Making a name for himself in the late 90s and early 00s with the critical and financial success of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, movie-goers were …

Here’s the premise: a psychotic hitman goes on an ultra-violent odyssey to avenge his brother’s death. Does this sound intriguing to you? Not really? Well, that’s because I forgot to mention that this hitman is …

As a huge fan of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, I was admittedly nervous about El Camino. Jesse Pinkman’s ending in Breaking Bad was a satisfying conclusion to a beloved character. So, when I …

I watched The Accused many years ago, at a point in my life where I was too young to really know what was going on in the film. I knew it was a movie about …

It’s time for another Nicolas Cage VOD feature! I’m not saying I’d rather watch Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — nor am I at all bitter about it not being out in my …

Whether you’re looking at your Twitter feed, scrolling through an article, or even aimlessly walking by the TV as pundits discuss the day’s news, it’s difficult to escape the notion of toxic masculinity. The term …

I’ve always been a fan of action-thrillers that involve corrupt cops. From Filth and Lakeview Terrace to Training Day and The Departed. The trailer for Point Blank suggests that it will follow the budding bromance …

Mix two directors, young attractive leads, some good performances, nice cinematography, and a made-for-TV vibe, and you get A Violent Separation. While this movie has some things going for it, there was clearly an untapped well …

I have been anticipating Dragged Across Concrete from the moment I became aware of its existence. Every so often, I would peruse the Internet for any announcements of its release date. The earlier reviews from …

Triple Frontier had me feeling a bit nostalgic for a time when the crime thriller reigned over everything else in Hollywood. A few decades ago, when an A-lister was looking for a big-time project, they …

So “Bala” translates to “Bullet” in English. That’s right, Columbia Pictures released a hard-edged, tough as nails crime thriller entitled Miss Bullet. Shoosh, these jokes write themselves, don’t they? Did Roger Corman secretly make this film? …

You might not associate Michael Caine with the crime genre, but he’s actually played quite a few memorable crooks in his 62-year acting career. From a professional thief in The Italian Job, to an avenging …

Witnessing Netflix’s transformation from humble video-rental to gigantic streaming behemoth (bestreamoth?) has been disorienting at best. Whereas the release of a new Netflix original movie was once a momentous occasion, the platform nowadays churns out an …

There’s always a few movies at the end of the year that are hoping for awards but ultimately get swallowed up by the sheer volume of films with similar aspirations. The awards season is often …

After a few noteworthy prestige films that included Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen is back with Widows, a film that is sure to wow all kinds of audiences with its genre flair. …

Usually films filled with dogs skew towards becoming overly sentimental and saccharine, shoving dogs in the face of the viewer simply for a cheap emotional response. Dogman, the latest film from Matteo Garrone, goes in the …

Bullitt, a crime/action movie, was first released fifty years ago today. Starring Steve McQueen and Robert Vaughn, it’s far more intelligent than you might expect, and it has become a cinema classic. The Synopsis Just …

Pierre Morel deserves a lot of credit (and some of the blame) for the current state of action movies. His smash hit thriller Taken made studio executives realize the simplicity that can come with the action movie …

We live in a time where abduction thrillers are popping up once every year. Studios try to repeat the success of 2009’s Taken. There have been many Taken knockoffs such as 2013’s The Call and …

The crime/gangster sub-genre contains in itself an anachronistic library of classically defining workings. Historically, the genre seemed to have generally trickled down in relevance, peeking relatively fast but also plateauing in equal measure. It laid …

Heat (1995), the famous first pairing of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, was so well made, with such high quality on both sides of the camera, that it was too good

2014’s The Equalizer was a quiet hit, earning just under $200 million for Sony, certainly no small feat. Still, it was pretty surprising to see Sony green light a sequel, during the prime summer blockbuster season no …

Gotti is making headlines for all the wrong reasons.  With a Rotten Tomatoes score of 0% as I write this piece, the film tanked at the box office over the weekend.  And after the box office …

Geostorm wasn’t exactly the biggest hit of 2017.  In fact, it was actually quite the opposite, and director Dean Devlin took quite a lot of the blame for the issues in the troubled production of …

The third and final piece of the Millenium film trilogy merges the intricate plotlines of the first two films into a neat conclusion. Daniel Alfredson takes the helm once again on The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s …

Spy thrillers don’t get much more brutal than Francis Lawrence’s Red Sparrow.  Filled with sex and torture that will rank among some of the most uncomfortable moments in a movie theater this year, Red Sparrow is a good …

The second installment of the film trilogy spawned from Steig Larson’s best-selling series Millennium, The Girl Who Played With Fire, takes place approximately one year after the Vanger case. The focus of the second film shifts to Lisbeth Salander’s life …

Readers had high expectations for the 2009 film adaptation of Steig Larson’s first novel from the crime series Millennium. Fortunately, lead actors Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist gave Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev a lot to …

Gerard Butler isn’t a stranger to action films, and he’s at it again in Den of Thieves, a gritty heist film in the vein of Heat and others like it.  The quality of his films haven’t exactly been …

The mind of a serial killer is a never-ending web of insanity and curiousity that makes for a fascinating, and incredibly uncomfortable, feature film.  My Friend Dahmer is no exception as the film looks into the mind …