Dennis Tafoya, Author at Criminal Element

Sexy Beast is More Than a Gangster Film

By Dennis Tafoya

October 24, 2012

The movie opens on an English gangster at his ease: Ray Winstone lays prone by his pool, baking in the Spanish sun. This is Gal, out of prison and enjoying the good life at his hillside villa with his ex-porn star girlfriend Deedee and best friend Aitch, icing down his steaming body and enjoying an…

The Getaway, an Appreciation

By Dennis Tafoya

August 11, 2012

The Getaway starts in prison. Scenes of star Steve McQueen running textile machines and clearing brush are filled out with real convicts from the Hunstsville, Texas, prison where they were shot, a fact that the viewer can intuit from the faces, movement, and body language of the men on-screen even without reading any of the…