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Gangster Land

By Bobby LePire | December 2023

Gangsters and mobsters have inspired cinematic escapades since filmmaking became a proper career. Primarily, such stories all hit the same beats. As…

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Gangsters and mobsters have inspired cinematic escapades since filmmaking became a proper career. Primarily, such stories all hit the same beats. As such,...

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You get to choose your friends, but you don't get to choose your family. In Ibrahim Nada and Jordan Charles' dramatic thriller Brothers in Arms, the bonds...

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AWARD THIS! 2023 NOMINEE! The more threads a thriller has, the more difficult it becomes to manage them all. But, when done right, the payoff is massive....

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Much has been written regarding the dire state of the American criminal justice system, and there's never a shortage of stories that attempt to shed light...

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Rich Mallery might be best known to a certain kind of audience for having written Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance. But the man is also a director, and with...

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Legendary film noir director and actress Ida Lupino may be fist-pumping from the grave over the superior neo-noir Valleyheart, written and directed by...

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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! One of the best films I have seen in years is indigenous Australian auteur Ivan Sen's noir, Limbo. The...

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"I am not a good man" being stated at the beginning of a movie is a clue that the story may not be so family-friendly. With the sound of a dripping faucet...

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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Ian McKellan in Anand Tucker's The Critic gives an outstanding performance as Jimmy Erskine, a closeted...

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Despite the obvious titular allusion, actor-writer-director Attila Korosi's micro-budget crime drama Live and Die in East L.A. bears little resemblance...

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