Sentences with phrase «crime classics»

In the vein of crime classics like Mean Streets and Infernal Affairs, this film follows two immigrant friends, Sonny and Steven, who survive the hard streets of New York in the 1980s by joining Chinatown gang The Green Dragons.

Josh and Benny Safdie, NYC's most reliable filmmaking duo (also of 2014's Heaven Knows What), upped their game with this instant crime classic, starring a totally transformed Robert Pattinson as an outer - borough thief trying to spring his brother out of Rikers.

In my review from the Telluride Film Festival, I compared it to the likes of other crime classics such as David Fincher's Zodiac and Seven or even Silence of the Lambs, and wrote «the movie succeeds thanks to Villeneuve's excellent direction of Guzikowski's script, and a cast that really gives it their all.»

August is generally a toxic wasteland for movie fans, although this year is proving to be a glorious exception with Kathryn Bigelow's harrowing Detroit, The Glass Castle, Wind River and the instant NYC crime classic Good Time all on local screens this week (and Steven Soderbergh's riotous NASCAR heist comedy, Logan Lucky, on deck).

Tom and I are running a different entry each day (we'll also reblog the other's post) and today it's the turn of the one and only Zoe from the one and only Sporadic Chronicles of a Beginner Blogger who, unlike director David Fincher only needs one take to nail the 2007 true crime classic Zodiac.

Four of the British Library Crime Classics titles are especially relevant for holiday gift book shoppers.

A new American crime classic from the legendary Martin Scorsese, whose talent shines here on its highest beams.

A remake of James Caan - led 1974 organised crime classic THE GAMBLER is currently in pre-production with Mark Wahlberg set for the lead role previously...

Starring Richard Conte with a powerhouse score by the great composers Guido and Maurizio De Angelis, this blistering Italian crime classic blazes with mind - blowing car chases and gunshots.

Maria Bello is in final negotiations to fill Dame Helen Mirren's metaphorically sizable shoes as Jane Tennison in the pilot for NBC's take on the English crime classic, Prime Suspect according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Appropriating the title of John Boorman's crime classic Point Blank may be a ballsy assertion of relevance, but given its generic thriller formula, Fred Cavayé's film doesn't deserve to be associated with its illustrious namesake.

There's a scintillating car chase around Boston, all shotguns, tommy - guns and squealing tyres, like an update of any number of George Raft or Jimmy Cagney crime classics, and a climactic clash between rival gangs in a Florida mansion which has more than a hint of Al Pacino's Scarface about it.

Even if the facts might be well known to documentary buffs, we're keeping our fingers crossed that Egoyan can deliver a «Zodiac «- style true - crime classic here.

For those few that caught his modern noir, THE WAY OF THE GUN (featuring a career - best Ryan Phillippe, as well as Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis and James Caan), most will remember it as a brutal, brilliantly structured and cruelly overlooked crime classic.

Earlier last month, reports surfaced that director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Magnificent Seven) was in talks to direct a remake to the Brian De Palma crime classic, Scarface.

Adrenalising and grungy, Josh and Benny Safdie's latest indie already feels like a New York crime classic, in spitting distance of «Dog Day Afternoon».

The Korean fan - favourite, a veteran of Asian Extreme cinema since even before hitting the big time with modern crime classic Oldboy back in 2003, seems to usually find himself chasing much more eccentric ideas, in much more eccentric settings.

Here's a PDF catalogue of the British Library's Crime Classics collection of newly published books.

Resorting to Murder, a new title in the British Library's extraordinarily successful Crime Classics series, combines these three forms of pleasure - taking.

Put the clues together and you'll unlock two Noir Style Filters, which will give your Story Mode gameplay and Snapmatic photos the feel of a gritty old school crime classic.

Kevin Spacey's immortal turn as the sin - obsessed John Doe took Seven and launched it into the stratosphere of crime classic.

There's buttons of Heat, The Departed, American Gangster and many other crime classics, with characters seemingly beamed in from Bad Lieutenant, Sicario and End of Watch, all come to rumble in Hillcoat's dirty little Atlanta playground.

A new NYC crime classic, a thriller about the Detroit riots and the return of Steven Soderbergh grace a glorious August

Charles Brandt has written a page - turner that has become a true crime classic.

Two long - forgotten classic cozy mysteries will get a new look and a new readership on April 15, thanks to the British Library Crime Classics — which highlights gems from the Golden Age of British crime fiction — and the University of Chicago Press.

Instant crime classic or muddled & overlong?

Gerard Butler and Pablo Schreiber face off in a film that apes Michael Mann's crime classic to surprising success

After all, Brian DePalma's 1983 crime classic is a remake of Howard Hawks» 1932 crime classic and, aside from the plot revolving around the rise and fall of a dangerous criminal, they couldn't be more different from one another.

Jarrod Emerson's tribute to Richard Attenborough: PART 1: BRIGHTON ROCK - 1947 What do you get when the crime classic, Brighton Rock, (by acclaimed novelist Graham Greene) falls into the hands of pioneering British filmmaker John Boulting?

Being a huge fan of the crime classics of the 1970s, any genre pic inspired or set in the period is certainly going to appeal to someone like myself.

Being a huge fan of the crime classics of the 1970s, any genre pic inspired or set in the period is certainly going to...

Director X's remake of the 1972 crime classic, starring Trevor Jackson and Jason Mitchell, has been set for release in just five months.

Martin Edwards is Series Consultant to the British Library's Crime Classics and author of The Golden Age of Murder (HarperCollins).

Holiday Whodunnits for Book Lovers: The British Library's Crime Classics (Publishers Weekly) The British Library is about a lot more than classics and medieval manuscripts.