Film
Crimes Against Film: Argoman, the Fantastic Superman (1967)
By Brian Greene
January 8, 2018I’ve been writing a series of posts on Criterion Collection film releases for this site. Some of the Criterion titles I’ve covered have been things like campy romps and low-budget oddities, but most of the movies in question are decidedly highbrow fare: critically acclaimed cinematic works directed by noted auteurs. As I’ve been plowing away…
Review: Thelma (2017)
By Peter Foy
December 19, 2017Although mankind would like to think that they have free will throughout their life, there is the inarguable fact that one has absolutely no control over their upbringing. We are brought into this world knowing nothing and are powerless from being imprinted with the values and ideologies of our parents, guardians, and mandated norms in…
Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
By Peter Foy
December 4, 2017When film noir is brought up, the first thing people tend to think of is the environments that these films are associated with. They think of the dark alleys and smog-saturated urban locales of American cities (typically LA but sometimes New York) where many an evil deed has taken place. However, rural noir is a…
Review: The Shape of Water (2017)
By Peter Foy
November 28, 2017While Mexican director Guillermo del Toro has become a vastly recognizable artist across several mediums (with his name gracing novels, films, FX’s The Strain, and even aborted video games), there is certainly one particular piece of his that has gained him respect and favor throughout the industry: Pan’s Labyrinth. The 2006 dark fantasy film was…
Review: Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
By Peter Foy
October 17, 2017Not many films sci-fi films can truly attest to having the legacy that Blade Runner has accumulated in the 35 years since its release. Loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the film told a contemplative tale of a future police officer tasked with terminating artificial humans known as…
Top 10 Crime Films of the 21st Century
By Peter Foy
October 2, 2017What is it that makes for a great crime film? Is a movie a crime film simply because it deals with illicit characters? In that case, couldn’t a lot of political films be classified as such? Or what about corporate life? Aren’t these people infinitely worse than the robbers, thugs, and gangsters that continually saturate…
Review: Good Time (2017)
By Peter Foy
September 11, 2017Making a crime thriller set in contemporary New York is tricky these days for one principal reason: there isn’t that much crime there anymore. In the 44 years since Martin Scorsese released Mean Streets, the Concrete Jungle has cleaned up its act by pushing out the pimps, pushers, and pornographers and replacing them with overpriced…
Crimes Against Film: Barb Wire (1996)
By Angie Barry
September 4, 2017THE DEFENDANT: Barb Wire first hit stands as a Dark Horse comic in the early ’90s. A part-time bounty hunter, Barbara Kopetski (aka Barb Wire, played by Pamela Anderson), owns a bar called The Hammerhead in the lawless city of Steel Harbor, the “last free city” in the midst of the second American Civil War.…
My Favorite Crime Novels and Movies
By T. Jefferson Parker
July 25, 2017It seems like every time I make a list of my favorite crime novels and movies, it gets longer. The longer you live, the longer it gets! I added another movie to my list just last week—more on that in a short moment. The first serious crime stories I read were the short stories…