You either loved or hated it, but either way it’s coming back around. On Thursday it was announced that Ericson Core will direct the remake of the 1991 surfer crime film, Point Break. The original starred Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves as FBI agents who go undercover to break up a gang of mask-wearing bank…
In a recent installment of this series, I wrote that noir novels often revolve around one doomed character, and I described some of the different types of misfortunate protagonists. A sub-type of lead character in these books (and movies of the kind, for that matter) is the person who once seemed to have everything going…
Magicians seem to be the thing this movie season what with Steve Carell’s The Incredible Burt Wonderstone coming out March 15 and magician-cum-heist movie, Now You See Me, which comes out June 7. In this one, a group of magicians are scrutinized by the FBI who suspect them of robbing banks during their performances. It…
Lots of buzz recently about the trailer for Trance, Danny Boyle’s new art heist movie starring James McAvoy as an art thief who’s stolen a painting and then, thanks to a blow to the head, forgotten where he stashed it. Vincent Cassel is the crime boss who wants the painting found. Rosario Dawson is the…
The movie opens on an English gangster at his ease: Ray Winstone lays prone by his pool, baking in the Spanish sun. This is Gal, out of prison and enjoying the good life at his hillside villa with his ex-porn star girlfriend Deedee and best friend Aitch, icing down his steaming body and enjoying an…
