Category: CRIME AND GANGSTER
Hancock (2008)
By: Jenna Zine (Three Beers) – Hancock (Will Smith) is an alcoholic superhero with a penchant for cutting a wide swath of destruction, even as he’s helping people. The citizens of Los Angeles finally get sick of footing the multi-million dollar bill to clean up after him and begin to turn on their formerly beloved
Pieta (2012)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Four Beers) – South Korea has gotten quite the reputation as an exporter of delightful, fully little romantic comedies fit for the whole family. This summer, Pieta will roll into theaters, and right into your hearts… Record scratch Nope, this is South Korean critically acclaimed fare, and furthermore, it’s from provocateur
Headhunters (2011)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Three Beers) – There’s been an upswing in Scandinavian directors using crime thrillers as a springboard into Hollywood. The original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo did it for Niels Arden Oplev (Dead Man Down), Easy Money did it for Daniel Espinosa (Safe House), and Contraband did the same trick for
Gambit (2012)
By: Katherine Balestrini (Four Beers) - A film pretty much doing what everyone has wanted to do at one point or another in their career, get sweet revenge on their boss. This film is exactly that, however it has the lovely Colin Firth as the poor Henry. And has the delicious Alan Rickman as his
Raising Arizona (1987)
By: Abby Olcese (A Toast) - There are few directors out there who began their careers as impressively as Joel and Ethan Coen. They started off with a bang in 1987 with Blood Simple, and haven’t really quit since. That first film was a seedy, scary crime thriller. Their follow up, a mere three years
The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Four Beers) – An odd thing happened to me awhile back. A name that I was unfamiliar with, J Blakeson, kept cropping up on director shortlists for high-profile projects alongside hot indie directors like Duncan Jones, Joe Cornish, and Cary Fukunaga. His only film to date, The Disappearance of Alice Creed,
So Undercover (2012)
By: Katherine Balestrini (Five Beers) - If you have the power to read and translate into vacant blonde in your head, please read the following review in that voice. Like totally. This movie has that chick from, oh you know that cute Disney show, Hannah Montana. She had the most amazing shoes and clothes and
Pain & Gain (2013)
By: B-Side (Three Beers) - Michael Bay movies are all about attitude. Not just the director’s aesthetic – he’s arguably the most distinctive and influential commercial stylist of the 00-10s – but you, movie viewer with a flask in your coat pocket. You have to be ready and willing for something big and loud and
Freeway (1996)
By: Jenna Zine (A Toast) - Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland star in this violent, modern retelling of the classic fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood. Reese plays Vanessa Lutz, a near-illiterate teen that most likely won’t graduate high school, who is quickly earning a diploma in the life of hard knocks. She lives in
Sleepless Night (2012)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Three Beers) – Indiewire, which is a site chock full of all of the Hollywood new and views you can shake a stick at, recently published a list in which its seemingly dozens of critics chose their favorite Die Hard knockoff. One film that popped up all over the list was
