Tag: Caper
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A Wretched Razzie-Winning Caper Sprints Away From Streaming Chaos- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Cameron Diaz may have headlined countless box office smash hits and acclaimed movies during her two decades at the top of the A-list before announcing her retirement – which is poised to end with Netflix action comedy Back in Action – but she didn’t half star in some utter dreck, either, with The Other…
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A Dire Sun-Kissed Heist Caper Stages a Smash-And-Grab Heist on Netflix- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] With multiple sexual assault allegations having obliterated his mainstream career and kept him out of the directorial business for close to a decade, it’s safe to say Brett Ratner is as good as blackballed. That hasn’t stopped his back catalogue from doing repeat business on streaming, though, even if After the Sunset is drastically…
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Jon Hamm, Tina Fey Lead Dull Crime Caper – IndieWire – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] “Maggie Moore(s)” makes the best case against marriage because, well, the husband(s) always did it. The not-quite-whodunit centers on a maybe somewhat true story — it even opens with the played-out disclaimer that “some of this actually happened” — about two women with the same name who are both killed in order to cover…
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A Raucous Crime Caper Rekindles an Old Flame to Pull a Heist on Netflix- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] via Star Cinema The humble heist caper is always a cinematic subgenre worth checking out, and despite its unlucky position on the streaming service’s viewership charts, last year’s crime comedy Partners in Crime has proven itself to be anything but cursed. Per FlixPatrol, the Filipino con caper has debuted as the 13th most-watched movie…
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An Erratically Eclectic Crime Caper Puts Its Cards on the Streaming Table- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] via Lionsgate For a while during the formative stages of the 2000s, it looked as though writer and director Wayne Kramer was well on his way to becoming established as one of the loudest and most distinctive voices in the hard-boiled crime genre, with The Cooler landing cult favorite status not long after its…
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Undemanding Spy Caper, Courtesy of Guy Ritchie – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] If you’ve ever wondered how Guy Ritchie’s “London Underground” style would mesh with the suave and debonair world of 007, then wonder no more. The awkwardly-named Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre — still far more intriguing than the original Five Eyes, and after other roll-off-the-tongue gems like Toff Guys and Cash Truck — is Ritchie…
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Cape Town Caper ‘Umbrella Men’ Banks on Classic Heists From the Past – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] When South African director John Barker was seven years old, the Johannesburg native experienced Cape Town’s Minstrel Carnival for the first time. The annual celebration, which is rooted in the traditions of slaves dating back to the early years of colonial rule, is a colorful, raucous pageant unique to the Mother City — an…
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A Smoldering Crime Caper Butts Into the Disney Plus Conversation- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Even though it only released in 1999, Jon Amiel’s Entrapment is the sort of movie that Hollywood doesn’t seem all that interested in making anymore, which is strange when the sultry crime caper proved to be an unqualified success. A PG-13 blockbuster thriller that was clearly geared towards older audiences, Sean Connery and Catherine…
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An R-Rated Crime Caper That Tanked Hard Goes Legit on Disney Plus- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Thanks almost entirely to Quentin Tarantino – who inadvertently created an entire subgenre through back-to-back classics Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction – the 1990s ended up being swamped by thinly-veiled imitations that featured complex plots and a star-studded ensemble cast. Very few of them found success, but even less fared worse than Things to…
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A Stacked Crime Caper Pulled From Theaters Pays off Its Streaming Debts- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] If talent on either side of the camera were enough to guarantee success, then you could have bet your house on 2014’s Stretch doing at least a tidy turn at the box office relative to its status as an inexpensive R-rated crime caper. And yet, there was so little interest on the part of…
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A Classic Christmastime Crime Caper Basks in Its Annual Stint in the Spotlight- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] As his filmography has made perfectly clear in almost every project he lends his name to, Shane Black is a massive fan of Christmas, so it was fitting he delivered one of the best and most perennially-underrated holiday capers of them all when Kiss Kiss Bang Bang arrived in October of 2005. Despite winning…