All posts tagged "movie action"
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Drunken Angel, #56
November 7, 2024This one, we know, is a tough sell. Drunken Angel is a 60-plus-year-old, black-and-white, subtitled Japanese...
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Movie Review: Here Comes the Boom
November 3, 2024Mixed Martial Arts/Ultimate Fighting Championship has certainly hit the big time when it becomes the subject...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Animal Kingdom, #55
November 3, 2024We place Jacki Weaver, as Grandma Smurf, on the Mount Rushmore of female movie gangsters, along...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Killing, #54
November 1, 2024There are two great reasons to see The Killing, Stanley Kubrick’s 1956 caper film about a...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Snatch, #53
October 29, 2024This is the second of Guy Ritchie’s madcap mob capers. And Brad Pitt’s performance as Mickey...
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Movie Review: The Man with the Iron Fists
October 26, 2024The Man with the Iron Fists is nothing if not enthusiastic, its narrative fits and starts...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: High Sierra, #52
October 26, 2024Before High Sierra, Hollywood’s gangsters were not just black-and-white on celluloid; they were equally definitive in...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 — #51
October 24, 2024Jacques Mesrine was one of the most notorious criminals in France during the 1960s and 1970s....
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Movie Review: Skyfall
October 24, 2024Our latter-day Bond, played to perfection by Daniel Craig, has re-energized the character created by novelist...
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Movie Review: Red Dawn
October 19, 2024Unlike the original film, which begins the invasion with an eerie sequence as paratroopers silently float...