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The Score. 2001. Dir: Oz. 7/10.
Di Niros a Montreal jazz club owner and part time master safe cracker who won’t thieve in Montreal, Brando is his heist procurer and fence, Ed Norton is a young whipper snapper thief, Angela Bassett is the Air Hostess GF who won’t move in with RDN while he’s still thieving.
A job goes wrong and RDN just manages to escape. He decides he’s getting too old for all this shit and is gonna retire and tells Bassett, she says she’ll consider moving in. He then goes to tell Brando he’s out from now on……..you know what’s next.
BTW Cassandra Wilson and Mose Allison have cameos singing in the background while various scenes are going on.
You’ll all be wishing you were a bilingual jazz club owning master safe cracker long before it’s over…….and that’s just the lasses who read this thread. It looks like a great life.
Shame Sunderland hasn’t got a jazz club. I reckon Ember would’ve been a superb candidate if the dividing wall wasn’t there. The lights ower the river through the windows would make it very NYCish. The Gannett/Le Metro with the changes around there now would do anarl or even Heros back in the day.
Those downstairs places down Summerside anarl.
Marlowe. 2022. Dir:Jordan. 7/10.
It’s just before the USA enters WW2 and Liam Neesons turn to try on Bogies, Mitchs, James Garners, Elliott Goulds and a few others shoes. A glamorous blonde heiress enters the Venetian blind shaded office looking for a wisecracking knight in shabby armour with a bottle in his desk drawer to find her missing lover……well there’s a shock!
It’s the 2014 John Banville (writing as Benjamin Black) attempt at wearing Raymond Chandlers shoes novel The Black Eyed Blonde brought to the big screen. Jessica Lange, Colm Meaney, Ian Hart and Alan Cummings chip in with some scenery chewing.
I don’t mind the franchising out by the Chandler estate or the general iffyness of the resulting novels but by Christ how do the fillums manage to flop with what should be a failure proof formula. Just stick a gun and/or drink in every characters hand and a hat on their head and it should write itself.
Di Niros a Montreal jazz club owner and part time master safe cracker who won’t thieve in Montreal, Brando is his heist procurer and fence, Ed Norton is a young whipper snapper thief, Angela Bassett is the Air Hostess GF who won’t move in with RDN while he’s still thieving.
A job goes wrong and RDN just manages to escape. He decides he’s getting too old for all this shit and is gonna retire and tells Bassett, she says she’ll consider moving in. He then goes to tell Brando he’s out from now on……..you know what’s next.
BTW Cassandra Wilson and Mose Allison have cameos singing in the background while various scenes are going on.
You’ll all be wishing you were a bilingual jazz club owning master safe cracker long before it’s over…….and that’s just the lasses who read this thread. It looks like a great life.
Shame Sunderland hasn’t got a jazz club. I reckon Ember would’ve been a superb candidate if the dividing wall wasn’t there. The lights ower the river through the windows would make it very NYCish. The Gannett/Le Metro with the changes around there now would do anarl or even Heros back in the day.
Those downstairs places down Summerside anarl.
Marlowe. 2022. Dir:Jordan. 7/10.
It’s just before the USA enters WW2 and Liam Neesons turn to try on Bogies, Mitchs, James Garners, Elliott Goulds and a few others shoes. A glamorous blonde heiress enters the Venetian blind shaded office looking for a wisecracking knight in shabby armour with a bottle in his desk drawer to find her missing lover……well there’s a shock!
It’s the 2014 John Banville (writing as Benjamin Black) attempt at wearing Raymond Chandlers shoes novel The Black Eyed Blonde brought to the big screen. Jessica Lange, Colm Meaney, Ian Hart and Alan Cummings chip in with some scenery chewing.
I don’t mind the franchising out by the Chandler estate or the general iffyness of the resulting novels but by Christ how do the fillums manage to flop with what should be a failure proof formula. Just stick a gun and/or drink in every characters hand and a hat on their head and it should write itself.
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