crime
ROBOT & FRANK
The opening scenes show a cat burglar breaking into a house in the middle of a night, and as he scans the room with his flashlight he spies a photograph which he picks up to examine before he drops it and it smashes on the ground. Frank has broken into his own house and the…
EASY MONEY
Although I no longer watch any TV programs at all, even I know that ‘The Killing’ has been a hit series on both sides of the Atlantic. Although naturally the US were not content with Danish original so they shot an American version. Into this they cast Joel Kinnaman as a sullen scruffy Detective, and…
LA PROMESSE
With the Belgian film auteur Dardenne brothers latest movie ‘The Kid on The Bike’ opening in NY to near rave reviews, it seemed like a good time to hone up on some of their earlier successes that are playing in a Retrospective at the Miami Beach Cinematheque this month. With five films in their resume…
Animal Kingdom
The opening scene of this gritty crime thriller movie shows Jay, a teenage boy, at home calmly watching ‘Deal or No Deal’ on the TV as his heroin addicted mother has just O.D. on the couch besides him. His grandmother, who has been estranged from her daughter for years, rushes over to pick him up…
