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Director Bart Layton Talks About Hanging Out with Some ‘American Animals’
It’s been six years since British director Bart Layton shocked audiences his documentary feature film The Imposter in 2012. Since then Layton’s been working on another film that blends documentary with fiction, truth from fantasy, and crime from wish fulfillment.…
Movie Review: First Kill
The opening shot of the movie may be its best. The remainder of the movie is very mediocre. Hayden Christensen stars as a father on a mission to rescue his kidnapped young son with Bruce Willis playing the police chief…
Movie Review: Casting JonBenet
The death of six-year-old Denver beauty queen JonBenet Ramsay is one of the greatest unsolved crimes. Some people consider the O.J. Simpson trial “their” crime story, but JonBenet Ramsay is mine. Only two years older than Ramsay and yet at…
Movie Review: The King
No two words coalesce into satire the way capitalism and hedonism do, the two ideas have been appropriated by filmmakers for decades but it wasn’t until Martin Scorsese’s bacchanalian epic The Wolf of Wall Street (now a high-flown and completely misguided…
The Film Canon: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The New Hollywood era of cinema, primarily in the 1970s, is one of sublime virtue for its many directors that subverted the classical tropes and styles of numerous film genres. Crime movies in particular stood out by becoming grittier in…
Movie Review: The Transporter Refueled
Unlike the title suggests, The Transporter Refueled actually missed its pit stop on the way to the big screen. There’s heart-stopping action, jaw-dropping stunts, beautiful people along with a beautiful location to accompany them, but unfortunately, there is no story…