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Posts Tagged "heist"
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The Nut Job ** (voices Will Arnett, Liam Neeson, Brendan Fraser) – Movie Review
Raccoon (voice of Liam Neeson) has ordered squirrels – the heroic Andie (Katherine Heigl) and the ditsy Grayson (Brendan Fraser) – to find a new food source. Andie runs into selfish maverick Surly the Squirrel (Will […]
The Good Thief *** (2002, Nick Nolte) – Classic Movie Review 1389
Writer-director Neil Jordan’s 2002 crime thriller stars Nick Nolte as a world-weary, drug-addicted, ageing gambler-thief embroiled in one last heist on a casino on the French Riviera. Problems arise when a young hooker, femme fatale Anne […]
The Getaway ***** (1972, Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Al Lettieri, Sally Struthers, Jack Dodson, Slim Pickens, Dub Taylor, Bo Hopkins, Richard Bright) – Classic Movie Review 1355
Director Sam Peckinpah’s 1972 action crime thriller The Getaway is one of this great director’s greatest movies, and most successful. Peckinpah and screenwriter Walter Hill turn esteemed pulp-fiction writer Jim Thompson’s novel into a sweaty-palmed, […]
The Asphalt Jungle ***** (1950, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Brad Dexter, John McIntire, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 1351
Co-writer/ director John Huston’s compulsively watchable, realistically staged classic 1950 film noir heist movie The Asphalt Jungle is a trail-blazing thriller with the criminal scam it focuses on invigoratingly portrayed as an inside tale from […]
Handgun *** (1994, Seymour Cassel, Treat Williams) – Classic Movie Review 1341
Seymour Cassel stars as Jack McCallister, an ageing robber who’s wounded in a bungled payroll heist, but manages to steal and then stashes away half a million dollars in debut writer-director Whitney Ransick’s witty 1994 […]
The Art of the Steal *** (2013, Kurt Russell, Matt Dillon, Jay Baruchel, Terence Stamp) – Movie Review
An ancient-looking Kurt Russell (aged 63) stars as semi-reformed art thief Crunch Calhoun, who agrees to re-assemble his old gang for one last heist. Along with his possibly duplicitous brother Nicky (Matt Dillon) and a hyper new young […]
Now You See Me *** (2013, Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman) – Movie Review
Mark Ruffalo and Mélanie Laurent star as FBI agent Dylan Rhodes and Interpol detective Alma Dray, who investigate a team of illusionists (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco). While performing in Las Vegas, […]