Tag Archives: Heat

Film review | Welcome to the Punch – James McAvoy & Mark Strong go head to head as cop and crook

Posted on 15 March 2013 by Jason Best

Writer-director Eran Creevy’s impressive feature film debut, 2008’s Shifty, was a slice of gritty social realism set in a drab London suburb. Follow-up Welcome to the Punch takes place at the heart of the capital and borrows its glossy sheen … Continue reading →

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Film review | The Sweeney – Ray Winstone & Ben Drew pack a wallop in cops-and-robbers reboot

Posted on 13 September 2012 by Jason Best

Nick Love, stalwart maker of British geezer movies, has come up with a flashy big-screen reboot for the iconic 1970s TV series The Sweeney. With Ray Winstone and Ben ‘Plan B’ Drew filling the shoes of John Thaw and Dennis … Continue reading →

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The Town – Ben Affleck muscles his way through a gritty Boston-set crime thriller

Posted on 15 February 2011 by Jason Best

Gritty crime thriller The Town, Ben Affleck’s second outing in the director’s chair, is set in the Boston district of Charleston, which is apparently home to more bank and armoured car robbers than any other square mile in the world. … Continue reading →

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Inception – Christopher Nolan’s dazzling sci-fi thriller has heart as well as brains

Posted on 22 December 2010 by Jason Best

Christopher Nolan pulled off the year’s most daring cinematic coup with his mind-boggling thriller Inception. In a summer when the big studios mostly played safe with remakes, rip-offs and sequels, Nolan somehow managed to make a dazzlingly smart, deeply personal … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Public Enemies – Johnny Depp’s charismatic 1930s outlaw steals Michael Mann’s gangster biopic

Posted on 4 November 2009 by Jason Best

Michael Mann has produced some of Hollywood’s finest thrillers of the past couple of decades – just think back to Manhunter and Heat – but his gangster biopic Public Enemies doesn’t find him at the top of his game. The … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Public Enemies – Johnny Depp gives Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger a dangerous glamour

Posted on 1 July 2009 by Jason Best

Michael Mann clearly thinks crooks are cool. Look at the evidence on screen: in film after film he’s drawn to bandits and outlaws, felons and fugitives, hoods and heavies. Like a hopeless recidivist, he just can’t keep away from crime. … Continue reading →

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The Best view | De Niro & Pacino back together but firing blanks in Righteous Kill

Posted on 16 February 2009 by Jason Best

It’s been 13 years since Robert De Niro and Al Pacino faced off against each other in that wary, late-night diner encounter in Michael Mann’s Heat. They’re together again on screen in the cop thriller Righteous Kill but the question … Continue reading →

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