I’m of the admittedly mistaken belief that thanks to the God-tier quality of his 1995 crime epic Heat, everything Michael Mann has produced since has
Tag: Crime
The Raid
I’m always curious to see where the next action sensation comes from, but even I was surprised by The Raid. Erupting from under the radar
Pain & Gain
After nearly burning himself out on three gargantuan Transformers movies in a row, it’s telling that Michael Bay’s idea of a smaller, intimate movie is
Death Sentence
After making his seismic impact on the horror genre with 2004’s Saw, there was the nagging suspicion that fledgling frightmaker James Wan had absolutely no
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The only thing that was surprising about insanely influential screenwriter Shane Black making the long overdue jump to directing was that it took so bloody
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Emerging from the seemingly never ending critical chaos after the release of The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson recovered with style by turning around and casually
A History Of Violence
It may be a slightly immature take, but I’ve always gravitated more towards David Cronenberg’s earlier, genre work than his later, more… well, not conventional
Escape From Alcatraz
Over four collaborations that had started in 1968 with Coogan’s Bluff and ended in 1971 with the seminal Dirty Harry, the team of Don Siegel
Pulp Fiction
What would you consider to be the ultimate Quentin Tarantino movie – not necessarily the best, but the one movie from the auteur’s filmography that
Angel Heart
Film noir has had some radical variations over the years; from Ridley Scott’s moody, future shock, extravaganza, Blade Runner, to Rian Johnson’s Raymond Chandler inspired
A Better Tomorrow II
Those who have seen the original A Better Tomorrow would surely concur that that although it contained many of John Woo’s signature themes, it hadn’t
A Better Tomorrow
These days, the many themes and visual tricks of action maestro John Woo are incredibly well known as his frenetic, slow motion gunplay, religious iconography
Crimson Rivers II: Angels Of The Apocalypse
In 2000, Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel teamed up with La Haine director Mathieu Kassovitz to deliver The Crimson Rivers, a fidgety psycho thriller that
The Crimson Rivers
After Thomas Harris’ Silence Of The Lambs erupted onto the scene and changed the face of serial killer thrillers forever (sorry, Manhunter), Hollywood has been
A Simple Plan
After the cartoonish sadism of his Evil Dead trilogy and the deranged superheroics of Darkman, it looked like Sam Raimi was starting to mature after
Jackie Brown
To paraphrase Calvin Candie from Django Unchained, with Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino had our curiosity, but with the release of Pulp Fiction in 1994, he
Death On The Nile
When is being old fashioned considered old hat? Take Kenneth Branagh’s previous take on Agatha Christie’s legendary Belgian detective, Murder On The Orient Express, that
Nightmare Alley
There’s always a slight sense of trepidation whenever a director chiefly linked with genre work gets a sniff of respectability and moves away from the
Reservoir Dogs
While, for a moment there, it seemed that Quentin Tarantino’s incendiary debut was destined to be forever claimed by the legions of film school students
Assault On Precinct 13
An inspired fusion of Rio Bravo and Night Of The The Living Dead made for as little money as possible, Assault On Precinct 13 is
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