Tag: Thief

  • Ferrari – Release Date, Cast, Plot And More Info

    Ferrari – Release Date, Cast, Plot And More Info

    Since his debut film “Thief” hit theaters in 1981, Michael Mann has enjoyed a reputation as one of the best working directors we have in America. Across masterfully mounted films like “Heat,” “Collateral,” and “Manhunter,” he’s also earned a somewhat unusual place in the filmmaking pantheon. He’s become somewhat of a household name, his films generally…

  • Penélope Cruz’s Ferocious ‘Ferrari’ Performance Revs Up Oscar Prospects For Michael Mann’s Latest

    Penélope Cruz’s Ferocious ‘Ferrari’ Performance Revs Up Oscar Prospects For Michael Mann’s Latest

    Among all working U.S. filmmakers, few have built as faithful and fervent a following of critics and cinephiles as Michael Mann. Mann’s acolytes have secured such sleekly hard-boiled genre works as “Thief” and “Heat” a permanent place in the American canon, while staunchly advocating for the merits of more divisive titles like “Blackhat” and “Miami…

  • ‘Miami Vice’: Quintessentially Michael Mann At 15 Years

    ‘Miami Vice’: Quintessentially Michael Mann At 15 Years

    Early on in “Thief,” Michael Mann’s 1981 feature debut, James Caan’s Frank stares out at a body of water enveloped by a sky that seems to go on forever. He’s just returned from another successful heist in Mann’s subterranean underworld, and he wants out. His life of crime is no life at all. He’s stuck…

  • ‘Thief’: Remembering Michael Mann’s Masterpiece 30 Years Later

    ‘Thief’: Remembering Michael Mann’s Masterpiece 30 Years Later

    One common problem with movies about criminals, thieves, and gangsters is that they end up glamorizing and glorifying the criminals. That’s not a problem with Michael Mann‘s movies. This week marked the 40th anniversary of Mann’s feature film debut, “Thief,” which seems as good a time as any to revisit this pulsating, neo-noir masterpiece.Read More:…

  • ‘I’m Your Woman’ Review: Rachel Brosnahan Plays a Crook’s Better Half in Boring Twist on the Crime Film

    ‘I’m Your Woman’ Review: Rachel Brosnahan Plays a Crook’s Better Half in Boring Twist on the Crime Film

    Writer-director Julia Hart (“Fast Color”) has seen more crime films than she can count, and she has concluded that these movies have a bad habit of underutilizing their female characters — the girlfriends and wives who get shunted to the side when the going gets tough. It’s bad form for reviews to quote from press…

  • Here’s What’s Coming to Hulu in May

    Here’s What’s Coming to Hulu in May

    Hulu has announced the titles they’re adding next month. One of the biggest additions is the first seven movies in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, so if you’re like me and have been looking to give these movies a spin, now you finally have a cheap and easy way to do so. And…