It’s been six years since British director Bart Layton shocked audiences his documentary feature film The Imposter in 2012. Since then Layton’s been working on another film that blends doc…
Movie Review: First Kill
The opening shot of the movie may be its best. The remainder of the movie is very mediocre. Hayden Christensen stars as a father on a mission to rescue his kidnapped young son with Bruce Willis playin…
Movie Review: Casting JonBenet
The death of six-year-old Denver beauty queen JonBenet Ramsay is one of the greatest unsolved crimes. Some people consider the O.J. Simpson trial “their” crime story, but JonBenet Ramsay i…
Movie Review: The King
No two words coalesce into satire the way capitalism and hedonism do, the two ideas have been appropriated by filmmakers for decades but it wasn’t until Martin Scorsese’s bacchanalian epic The Wolf of…
The Film Canon: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The New Hollywood era of cinema, primarily in the 1970s, is one of sublime virtue for its many directors that subverted the classical tropes and styles of numerous film genres. Crime movies in particu…
Movie Review: The Transporter Refueled
Unlike the title suggests, The Transporter Refueled actually missed its pit stop on the way to the big screen. There’s heart-stopping action, jaw-dropping stunts, beautiful people along with a beautif…
Movie Review: ‘Two Step’
Crime dramas usually spend too much time concentrating on their action sequences rather than the plot and character development. What little story there is can easily be replaced with five-minute shoo…