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Posts Tagged "gangster"
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Gangster No 1 ** (2000, Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany, Saffron Burrows, Kenneth Cranham, Jamie Foreman, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 659
A ruthless middle-aged English hoodlum reflects on his life of crime, and how he rose from young hardman in small-time crime in Swinging 60’s London to being boss of the gang. This repellently bloodsoaked British gangster […]
Running Scared **** (2006, Paul Walker) – Classic Movie Review 651
Paul Walker gets his toughest role as low-ranking crook Joey Gazelle, is entrusted by his crime boss to dispose of the gun that killed a dirty cop in a drug-op gone bad. Filmed largely in […]
Two Hands **** (1999, Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown, Rose Byrne, Susie Porter, David Field, Steven Vidler, Tom Long, Tony Forrow, Dale Kalnins) – Classic Movie Review 624
‘It seemed simple. Just deliver the cash.’ The 20-year-old Heath Ledger makes a strong early impression on his way to stardom in writer-director Gregor Jordan’s taut, atmospheric, flashy-looking little 1999 Australian lowlife urban crime thriller. […]
Gigli (2003, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Justin Bartha) – So Bad It’s Good Movie 3
OK, look, everyone has bad days. But if you’re a huge movie star, everyone else gets to know about it. Made at the height of the wildly overheated international publicity over the romance of its […]
Get Shorty **** (1995, John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini, David Paymer, Bette Midler) – Classic Movie Review 368
Gene Hackman has a scene-stealing field day as sleazeball Hollywood producer Harry Zimm, in the highly amusing 1995 black comedy thriller film Get Shorty. Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s highly amusing 1995 black comedy thriller film Get […]
Analyze This **** (1999, Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal) – Classic Movie Review 345
Director Harold Ramis’s 1999 laughter-raiser is a hilarious Mafia comedy, with Robert De Niro deliciously sending up his Don Vito Corleone role in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Billy Crystal ideally cast as the nervous […]
Angels with Dirty Faces ***** (1938, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall) – Classic Movie Review 295
Oscar-nominated James Cagney sizzles in one of his most archetypal performances as William ‘Rocky’ Sullivan, a poor New York Lower East Side kid who grows up to be a gangster admired by a gang of […]