Shoot the Glass

Oooh, fun, another heist movie. I do so love a good heist movie. This reminded me a lot of another heist movie I saw recently: The Killing (read my review). It has some similar elements, and I enjoyed them both immensely.
Here, we get to meet Tony le Stéphanois (Jean Servais), just out of prison. He [...]

Ace in the Hole is a less well-known movie by Billy Wilder, which was a complete flop at the box office when it opened in 1951.
Kirk Douglas plays Charlie Tatum, a former big city reporter, who is something of a trouble-maker and keeps getting fired from all the big papers for various reasons. He ends [...]

If it hadn’t been for the IMDb Top 250 list, I doubt I would have heard of this movie. It seems to have gotten lost in time somehow, perhaps because it’s not quite a western, not quite a noir. But believe me, it’s excellent.
Two men come to a town where news are spreading that a [...]

The Killing is a little movie about a big heist. Clocking in at only 84 minutes, Kubrick has really stripped this down to essentials. Basically, it’s about a bunch of guys who are gonna rip off the race track. They all have different jobs to do: there’s Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden), an ex-con who’s the [...]

There are many things to marvel at and be impressed with when it comes to this movie. First of all, it’s almost impossible to believe that this movie was made in 1931. Made only a few years after the end of the silent film era, Fritz Lang uses all aspects of sound (effects, dialogue, silence, [...]