Your Independent Movie Guide
crime
By | September 2013
“Drug War” is a superb work of crime genre cinema…
The stunning finale of Johnnie To’s “Drug War” takes place on the streets of a congested intersection in China. Vehicles are jammed tighter than...
Vincent Cassel continues his role as Jacques Mesrine, a French gangster with a large public following and a bit of an ego to match. Had social media...
Luis Prieto’s “Pusher” will encourage you to pay off your Master Card… pronto. An English-language re-make of Nicholas Winding Refn’s 1996 Danish...
Vincent Cassel is Mesrine, a one-time soldier and big-time gangster in this film based on a biography written by the title’s namesake. It is a brutal,...
The 2012 Seattle International Film Festival, a magical, mind-expanding, eye-feeding carpet ride for those fond of falling deep into moving-picture...
Calling all flick-freaks who share a venomous contempt for arrogant yuppie scum! “Headhunters,” Morten Tyldum’s Norwegian nerve-jangler, is cause for...
CPT Nascimento (Wagner Moura), baby-faced Commander of a brutal Brazilian cop squad called the BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion), makes Batman...
BOOM! “Point Blank” will shoot you from a cannon, and you won’t hit the ground until its closing credits. Your jowls will ripple from the forward...
A woman’s broken body being dragged through stark-white snow. A human head rolling along a river-bottom, its raven hair swirling with the tides. The...
Rita (Veronica D'Agostino) is a little girl who idolizes her father, as does the rest of her Italian village. Her mother doesn't like her, and never will,...
