Recently, for this sporadic, nebulously defined column, I wrote (not entirely favorably) about Penny Marshall’s Jumpin’ Jack Flash. It got me thinking about a movie from a couple years earlier, one whose success was no doubt a partial inspiration for...
Heist movies are a tough thing to pull off effectively. It’s not just that the characters are robbing someone; it’s seeing how clever they are in pulling it off. The best examples of the form (Rififi, Le Cercle Rouge, The...
