Crime
Walter Hill knows how to make a decent buddy cop flick. He directed 48 Hours, the very funny movie that starred Nick Nolte as a ragtag cop and Eddie Murphy as a troublesome fugitive. Hill goes for something similar with Bullet ...
Action hero Jason Statham is the perfect guy to play Parker, a criminal who abides by certain standards (he always keeps his word and doesn’t steal from the poor). But Parker, which is based on the 2000 Donald Westlake novel Fl...
“Can someone tell me what the fuck is going on?” Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) says on more than one occasion in the new crime drama Broken City. Audiences will find themselves asking the very same question. The film bein...
Well, he said he’d “be back.” And Arnold Schwarzenegger is back, alright, delivering those simple-minded one-liners with an accent as thick as always in The Last Stand, a new action film that picks up where all his crappy actio...
Based on Paul Lieberman’s Tales from the Gangster Squad, Gangster Squad has a good premise. It centers on Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), an ex-boxer who’s trying to be the main mob boss in L.A. in 1949. So ruthless that he chains a ...
We haven’t read the 2005 novel One Shot that’s the source material for Jack Reacher, the new thriller that stars Tom Cruise as Reacher, a renegade private investigator of sorts. But even if we had, we still can’t imagine we’d h...