Tag: Crime

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) – Review

Mash ups can be incredibly fun, but they can also be incredibly messy – but nothing is stopping them from being fun and messy. Take

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Miami Vice – Season 1, Episode 3: Cool Runnin’ (1984) – Review

The third episode of Miami Vice is exactly what I thought the series would be as it captures the escalating violence of Miami’s drug wars

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Menace II Society (1993) – Review

The early 90s were the home of a number of determined filmmakers making ferocious debuts that stripped away the gloss amd excess of the 80s

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Hackers (1995) – Review

Rocky Balboa once said that time is undefeated and nothing gives the passing of years more of a tactical advantage than a film the revels

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Ocean’s Twelve (2004) – Review

Back in 2001, Steven Soderbergh and a team of Hollywood elites performed a stunning act of grand theft remake when painfully stylish heist remake Ocean’s

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Miami Vice – Season 1, Episode 2: Heart Of Darkness (1984) – Review

Miami Vice’s second episode proves the first was no fluke, taking the ground-breaking style established in the pilot and channelling it into a darker, more

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The Godfather (1972) – Review

Once the iconic, haunting strains of Carlo Savina’s The Godfather Waltz kicks in, it soon becomes obvious that there isn’t much more left to say

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The Bride! (2026) – Review

While resurgences of some of the other, classic monsters (Dracula, the Wolf Man) are to be expected, the current run of film based around Frankenstein’s

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Blue Velvet (1986) – Review

It’s easy to imagine that David Lynch – cinema’s premier practitioner of surreal dream weaving – was always incredibly steadfast in his abilities when it

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Gangster No.1 (2000) – Review

I’ve never been overly keen on British Gangster movies. Not the classic ones like The Long Good Friday and Get Carter, no I’m cool with

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Crime 101 (2026) – Review

I’ve been down this particular avenue before, but when it comes to constructing a complex, crime epic, all attempts inevitably drop to their knees and

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Ocean’s Eleven (2001) – Review

Usually when people offer up remakes that are better than the original, their first port of call is to pick either a slice of 80s

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Ocean’s Eleven (1960) – Review

There are certain things that spring instantly to mind when you think of the glittery, neon soaked streets of old school Las Vegas – slot

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Double Indemnity (1944) – Review

For as long as humans have been able to tell stories, we’ve regaled each other with tale of duplicitous acts and crimes of passion, where

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Reindeer Games (2000) – Review

Just in case you were wondering, it isn’t just Die Hard and various Shane Black thrillers that are the only actioners to take place at

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No Country For Old Men (2007) – Review

If there was any doubt about the ability of the Coen Brothers to conjure up flawless and varied crime epics that effortlessly straddled the divide

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Gangs Of New York (2002) – Review

No one does sprawling crime epics quite like Martin Scorsese. Throughout the length and breath of his illustrious career, he’s cast his cinematic eye over

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American Made (2017) – Review

Stories of spectacular rags to hideous riches are as American as apple pie – after all, what signifies the American dream more than someone making

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Filth (2013) – Review

Just because Danny Boyle found the cheat code on how to adapt Irvine Welsh with Trainspotting (see also David Fincher cracking Chuck Palahniuk with Fight

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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) – Review

Since he first wordlessly threw off members of the Thromby clan by simply hitting a single key on a piano, famed, verbose detective Benoit Blanc

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