Recently released from prison, Dix Handley (Sterling Hayden) concocts a plan to steal $1 million in jewels. Dix gathers a team of small-time crooks, including a safecracker (Anthony Caruso) and a lawyer (Louis Calhern), and the heist is a success until a stray bullet kills one of the ...
Carroll understands, according to her father’s plan, Yang is going to board the train, take away the money belt from Cooper, and then kill him. Nursing a hatred of Carroll (since losing the money means he failed the peasants who had raised it), Cooper manages to escape from Tamiroff ...
with Kay the archetype of the stateless person who tries everything in her power to escape and keep her daughter safe but finds herself trapped thanks to Ivan throwing in with the Black Dragon, and eventually reaches a snapping point when Ivan threatens to induct Vera into working...
Surveying a model of the hill displaying the fortifications and general layout of their task, Clemons formulates a basic plan, to lead his 1st Platoon himself with his 2nd Platoon, under his stalwart second-in-command Lt Tsugi ‘Suki’ Ohashi (George Shibata), sweeping up the hill on his ...
The circus' animals escape from the circus. And when King Kong threatens people, Superman takes action to cover its events. Movie Loading... Sudden Fried Chicken Herman notices that his pal Henry is being beaten by his wife, so he suggests Henry to become a boxer. Henry figures that if ...
Bruce involved his father’s business into the operation by secretly laundering money out of the new branches he built. Fearing for the lives of his crew and growing family, Bruce needs an escape plan. He needs a place away from Cocaine Cowboys, warring brothers and unceasing violence to real...
Note: all reviews are by Grant Watson except where noted. A Abiding Nowhere (2024, Taiwan, d. Tsai Ming-liang. review) Accident (2009, Hong Kong, d. Soi Cheang. review) Across 110th Street (1972, USA, d. Barry Shear. review) Ad Astra (2019, USA, d. James
year. Despite the difficulties, they have formed a solid group of friends with whom they spend their days sharing dreams of freedom. Everything changes when the arrival of a rebellious young man offers a possible escape: the only door to make those dreams come true. Inspired by many true ...
But Fanny’s inquisitive mother (Anna Laik) gets her antennae quivering and starts uncovering the truth, forcing another imminent contract – but with things not quite going to plan. The film was driven rather than hampered by stylistic tension, manifest in the disparity between the behaviour on...
The systematised use of locations to shape the drama is first really noticeable in Pakula’s depiction of Linder’s desperate attempt to escape secret service guards atop the Space Needle, falling over the edge with a desperate scream and the agents: it’s all done in one dizzying shot, ...