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Director Sidney Lumet’s 1975 classic Dog Day Afternoon is a complex, adult and exhilarating crime thriller based on a then recent real-life event, the robbery of the Chase Manhattan Bank in Gravesend, Brooklyn, by John […]
Director Robert Siodmak turns Ernest Hemingway’s short story about a gangster waiting passively for the two professional killers who are coming to get him into an extremely atmospheric, tense and stylish hard-nosed, hard-boiled film noir crime […]
Just days before the UK switches its currency to Euros, a gang has a chance to rob a poorly-secured train loaded with money on its way to incineration. During the robbery, one of the big […]
Filmed in 1992 with a screenplay by the original author, David Mamet’s dazzling Broadway and British Royal National Theatre play is a brilliant showcase for some stupendous performances by the great and the good. Jack […]
All good things must come to an end, but the 1946 mystery film Dressed to Kill finds Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce’s Dr Watson going out in style in the last of their […]
‘They’re young. They’re in love. They rob banks.’ Warren Beatty stars as small-time bank robber Clyde Barrow who joins up with Faye Dunaway as bored small-town waitress Bonnie Parker to embark on a series of […]
John Stuart stars as police detective Gilbert Fordyce, who is searching for a necklace and is on the trail of a gang of clever jewel thieves who stole it, in Alfred Hitchcock’s vintage 1932 British […]