Shoot the Glass

Casino is another mafia movie from Martin Scorsese, and I thought it was inferior to Goodfellas in every possible way. Maybe I’ve just seen too many similar (and better) movies, but I was just not impressed with this at all.
We get to follow Ace (Robert De Niro) and Nicky (Joe Pesci), two childhood friends who [...]

Paris, France. The suburbs. A young man called Abdel is the victim of police brutality, and is hospitalised. Riots. Vinz (Vincent Cassel) finds a gun lost by a policeman during the riots, and wants to fight back. He vows to kill a police if Abdel dies in the hospital, as retaliation for the police brutality.
The [...]

Three weeks ago, I had no idea who Henri-Georges Clouzot was. Now, I’ve seen two of his movies and both are masterpieces. He made this right after Le Salaire de la Peur (read my review), yet it’s an entirely different kind of movie.
Unlike Le Salaire de la Peur, very little time is spent setting up [...]

Sidney Lumet is one of my very favourite directors. All movies of his that I’ve seen have been excellent, not a stinker among them. He has range, too. He has covered just about every genre there is, and he’s a master at his craft.
Here we have a movie based on true events. Al Pacino is [...]

When the American Film Institute updated their list of the 100 best movies of all time in 2007, In the Heat of the Night was one of the new inclusions.
In tells the story of Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), an African American detective from Philadelphia. He has gone home to the south to visit his mother, [...]