Word: heists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Perros and Y Tu Mama Tambien seem like slouchers. The storytelling and filmmaking vigor never lets up. The camera takes a bullet's point of view as it ricochets toward a victim; the tangled history of a gang's hideout is shown in two dozen supple dissolves; a bank heist is replayed to clear up a murder mystery. Because the director has brought his monsters and their world to teeming life, City of God conquers your scruples and stokes an appreciation for the feral strength of the doomed kids. The film is seductive, disturbing, enthralling--a trip to hell that...
...house is in a rural area and it is open to the public. If a gang is really determined to rob the house, it is very difficult to deal with them." Security was being reviewed at the time of the robbery. What's especially intriguing about the last two heists is that the thieves never intended to fence the artworks for money. The paintings were meant to serve as bargaining chips; senior police sources say that the gang hoped to trade them for lesser charges when caught on other criminal operations. The thieves were following a tradition going back...
...haul stolen by six men with a single revolver in a daring bank heist at Malaysia's Petronas Twin Towers last week in Kuala Lumpur...
WELCOME TO COLLINWOOD. In the vein of recent heist movies like Snatch, Welcome to Collinwood looks like something reminiscent of the Coen brothers. Co-written and directed by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, Welcome to Collinwood premiered at Cannes and features big-shots George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh as producers. The film chronicles the exploits of several small-time criminals in a neighborhood on Cleveland’s east side. Led by your average petty felon Cosimo (Luis Guzman), a brainless band of six rogues decides to do some safe-cracking. What actually happens when they try to pull their...
...that she is virtually deaf. She covers this defect by being an expert lip-reader. Now, this is a skill a bad guy can use. Soon she's perched on a rooftop, peering through binoculars, learning the secrets of a criminal gang whose ill-gotten gains he plans to heist. The comedic first part of Jacques Audiard's film doesn't achieve a seamless connection with its melodramatic second half, but you can't deny the originality of his conceit or the tart cynicism of its development...