Tag: Heist
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Rewatch: Sneakers (1992)
★★★★ The dystopian vision of a chronically surveilled population was at the heart of Nineteen Eighty-Four, but aside from North Korea, it has played out in a different way. We are in a surveillance state, only that state is a mixture of government and corporate interests, and the data is currently a tool used to…
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Roofman (2025)
★★★★ Roofman is the true story of a thief whose life caught up with him. Jeremy Manchester (Channing Tatum) worked out how to break into McDonald’s restaurants, until his nice guy demeanour helped in captured. In prison, he used his same know-how to find a means to escape. On the run and with nowhere to…
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The Mastermind (2025)
★★★★ The Mastermind is a period drama that centres around a somewhat convoluted plan to turn stolen art into money. The heist’s mastermind is JB (Josh O’Connor) – a family man and unemployed carpenter who sees his path to fortune as for Arthur Dove paintings at his local art museum. Because he frequents the museum,…
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World Film: Rififi (1955)
★★★★★ Australia has a bad history with censoring and outright banning art. Maybe some of it is justified, but it does feel like a lot of the art that is banned is done from a conservative and paternalistic position. Case in point was that it took until 2013 for Australia to get an adults-only rating…
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5 Films: Heist
We rob banks. Clyde Barrow (Bonnie & Clyde) Like a caper, the heist movie is a subset of crime films that tend to be told from the criminal’s perspective. Heists centre around (unsurprisingly) a robbery. They are usually ensemble films with the planning and aftermath being as critical – if not more so – than…
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Must-See TV: The Sticky (2024)
If there’s any complaint about the present state of television serials, it’s that the increased focus on the medium has meant that productions are being bloated. When the battle is streaming services competing for your time, the longer a show runs for, the longer it keeps the viewer using the service. For this to work,…
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Marmalade (2024)
★★★★ Marmalade is a mystery heist film told in the heist’s aftermath. Here, the recently incarcerated “dumb as a bag of rocks” Baron (Joe Keery) tells his cellmate (Aldis Hodge) his story of romance with the impulsive drifter Marmalade (Camila Morrone) that leads to a bank robbery in a nearby town. Only things aren’t as…
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Rewatch: Heat (1995)
★★★★★ The thrill of watching a film is often the thrill of the unknown. While our memories are imperfect, the big moments a film has to offer tend to stay with us. Rewatching the same film means we can relive those moments, it’s not quite the same as watching it without knowing they’re going to…
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