Crime

Featured Reviews 

Review – Crusty crooks fail to inspire in ‘King of Thieves’

22/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 15, Charlie Cox, Crime, Heist, James Marsh, Jim Broadbent, King of Thieves, Michael Caine, Michael Gambon, Paul Whitehouse, Rating: Poop, Ray Winstone, September 2018, Thriller, Tom Courtenay

Michael Caine and Ray Winstone lead an ensemble of old age pilferers in King of Thieves, based on the Hatton Garden heist.

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Review – ‘American Animals’ is a playful take on truth that lets its crooks off the hook

16/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, American Animals, Ann Dowd, Barry Keoghan, Bart Layton, Blake Jenner, Certificate: 15, Crime, Evan Peters, Heist, Jared Abrahamson, Rating: Pop, September 2018, Thriller, Udo Kier

Bart Layton is toying with the truth again in American Animals, which weaves documentary and fiction to tell the story of a botched art heist.

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Review – Idris Elba’s ‘Yardie’ is a swaggering, if muddled, directorial debut

09/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Aml Ameen, August 2018, Certificate: 15, Crime, Drama, Idris Elba, Naomi Ackie, Rating: Pop, Shantol Jackson, Sheldon Shepherd, Stephen Graham, Yardie

Idris Elba makes his debut behind the camera as the director of Yardie – a British crime drama set in 1980s London.

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DVD & Blu-ray Featured Reviews 

Blu-ray Review – ‘Racer and the Jailbird’ squanders the killer chemistry between its stars

08/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blu-ray, Certificate: 15, Crime, Eric De Staercke, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michaël R Roskam, Nabil Missoumi, Nathalie Van Tongelen, Racer and the Jailbird, Rating: Poop, September 2018, Thriller

Matthias Schoenaerts and Adèle Exarchopoulos have real chemistry in thriller Racer and the Jailbird, but the plot really gets in their way.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘Beast’ delights in moral ambiguity and carnal urges

23/08/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, August 2018, Beast, Blu-ray, Certificate: 15, Crime, Drama, Geraldine James, Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Michael Pearce, Oliver Maltman, Rating: Pop, Shannon Tarbet, Thriller, Trystan Gravelle

Michael Pearce’s debut feature Beast, set on the island of Jersey, is a coming-of-age tale with a blast of murder and lust.

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DVD & Blu-ray Reviews 

DVD Review – ‘Proud Mary’ wastes Taraji P Henson’s badass charisma

28/07/201828/07/2018 Tom Beasley 1 Comment 2018, Action, Babak Najafi, Billy Brown, Certificate: 15, Crime, Danny Glover, DVD, Jahi Di'Allo Winston, July 2018, Rating: Poop, Taraji P Henson, Thriller

Henson is a great choice for an action lead, but Proud Mary is a dramatically deficient crime thriller with limp action sequences.

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DVD Review – Even Nicolas Cage is drowned out by bullets in ‘211’

24/07/201828/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, 211, Action, Alexandra Dinu, Certificate: 15, Crime, Dwayne Cameron, July 2018, Michael Rainey Jr, Nicolas Cage, Ori Pfeffer, Shari Watson, Sophie Skelton, Thriller, York Shackleton

Nicolas Cage can barely be heard over the flying bullets and blaring muzzles of 211 – a heist actioner that never comes alive.

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DVD & Blu-ray Reviews 

DVD Review – ‘Dark Crimes’ sees Jim Carrey go dark, without much spark

10/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Agata Kulesza, Alexandros Avranas, Certificate: 18, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Crime, Dark Crimes, DVD, Jim Carrey, July 2018, Kati Outinen, Marton Csokas, Piotr Glowacki, Rating: Poop, Robert Wieckiewicz, Thriller, Vlad Ivanov

Dark Crimes is Jim Carrey as you’ve never seen him before, and never want to see him again.

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Review – ‘Ocean’s 8’ is an enjoyable caper, but lacks the killer punch

18/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Anne Hathaway, Awkwafina, Cate Blanchett, Certificate: 12, Crime, Dakota Fanning, Gary Ross, Heist, Helena Bonham Carter, James Corden, June 2018, Mindy Kaling, Ocean's 8, Rating: Pop, Richard Armitage, Rihanna, Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, Thriller

With a killer cast of A-listers, Ocean’s 8 is a fun heist thriller that brings the franchise back with a fresh coat of stylish paint.

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Reviews VOD 

VOD Review – Serial killer tale ‘Hangman’ has a certain clumsy charm

30/05/201830/05/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Al Pacino, Brittany Snow, Certificate: 15, Crime, Hangman, Johnny Martin, June 2018, Karl Urban, Mystery, Rating: Pop, Sarah Shahi, Thriller

Hangman is a direct-to-VOD thriller starring an Oscar-winning actor in Al Pacino, but it’s almost certainly better than what you’re expecting.

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DVD Review – ‘A Violent Man’ fails to find the punch in its MMA story

06/05/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, A Violent Man, Bruce Davison, Certificate: 18, Chuck Liddell, Crime, Denise Richards, Isaach De Bankolé, Khalilah Joi, Matthew Berkowitz, May 2018, Rating: Poop, Thomas Q Jones, Thriller

An MMA fighter is accused of choking a journalist to death during sex in the dark crime thriller A Violent Man.

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