Crooks world première at Tribeca, 7 June 2026 As Faye (Angela Trimbur), on stage in a spangly dress, sings Dream A Little Dream of Me, a man (Sanjay Choudrey) crudely heckles her from his table on the night club’s floor, suggesting that she should start stripping, and asking: “What decade does she even think it…
Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank world première at Tribeca, 6 June 2026 Violet and Marlowe are a loving couple of rabbits, living an idyllic-seeming life in a small farming hamlet. But when they find their fridge bare, they travel to the big city, and raid the carrot supply of the corporation that stole their…
The Last Stop in Yuma County first published by VODzilla.co, 17 Jan 2025 In Arizona, Yuma is both a city and a county, but in a film title, the name is a shorthand evocation of a particular genre. For what Lesley Selander’s Fort Yuma (1955), Delmer Daves’ 3:10 to Yuma (1957, and James Mangold’s 2007…
Detective Knight: Independence opens with an armed bank robbery, all filmed at gun level in the familiar manner of a first-person shooter; and it ends with an armed robbery of the same bank, and then a getaway involving a hijacked ambulance, police humvees and a helicopter, during which one of the robbers will exclaim: “Fuck,…
In the opening scene of WW Jones and Luke Skinner’s The World We Knew, Smith (Mat Harvey), young Eddie (Alexander Wells) and Stoker (played by Jones’ co-writer Kirk Lake) are waiting in the back of a van. The door opens, a male voice says, “It’s time,” and we see the gun in Eddie’s hand as…