Tag: heist

I love a good teaser poster, and these three pieces of key art for Vasilis Katsoupis' debut feature deliver a satisfying tease. The film, Inside, is a one man, one room heist film starring Willem Dafoe, who slowly goes crazy after...

Forget the old Godardian nugget that all you need is a Girl and a Gun.  How about just a big ass gun? The poster for Senegalese supernatural revenge thriller, Saloum, goes for that Sergio Leone western vibe, with a modern,...

Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu makes strange genre movies. His peculiar cinema turns off most people, but gets a small minority VERY excited. If you happen to be in a room of cinephiles, and the subject of his earlier film, Police,...

Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez and Elizabeth Debicki star in Steve McQueen's top-quality heist movie.

"The monster has gone digital," warns Woody Harrelson in a fashion that only Mr. Harrelson can. As a bedraggled detective cleaning up the mess of a bank manager whose vault was just not only breached in a daylight heist, but...

Luis Tosar headlines upcoming Spanish heist film To Rob A Thief, the latest from writer Jorge Guerricaechevarría (Cell 211) and director Daniel Calparsoro (Combustion) - a combination that looks likely to deliver a slickly entertaining ride of a film.Six armed...

We've been enormous fans of The Proposition and The Road director John Hillcoat and judging by the sheer volume of high end talent starring in his upcoming heist thriller Triple 9, we're not the only ones. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck,...

Yee Chih-yen, Taiwanese director of the much-celebrated Blue Gate Crossing, delivers a heartfelt, humorous and poignant coming of age story in Meeting Dr. Sun. Part high school drama, part adventurous heist flick, the film follows impoverished high-schooler Lefty (Zhan Huai-yun),...

Hey, America! Charlie Vundla's South African crime noir How To Steal 2 Million is available online right now at iTunes, Amazon and YouTube and you should watch it. Really. Right now. We were first wowed by the trailer for this...

Another lovely week in the world streaming media sees a mixture of highbrow and lowbrow, old and new, stylized and playful entries in territories around the world.  Sean Connery asks for a dead cat.  Jude Law looks for both a...

Director Donovan Marsh has hit these pages before thanks to his coming of age comedy Spud - which features John Cleese in a supporting role - but he's mining entirely different ground with his Toronto selected action film iNumber Number....

On November 5th of 2009 a lone man successfully pulled off the largest cash heist in French history, netting himself 11.6 million Euro in cash without resorting to violence. And now that true story is arriving on screen in a...

Shot immediately before his commitments to the 2012 Olympics kicked in, Danny Boyle is now putting the final buff and polish on his art heist noir Trance prior to a reported spring 2013 release and the first proper stills from...

Denmark is getting silly with upcoming action comedy Alle For To, the Anders Thomas Jensen scripted sequel to popular hit Alle For En.This sequel to the box office hit »All for One« finds the previously tight-knit trio dispersed: Nikolai is...