Heist

Steal – Fill or Kill

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  • Title: Steal – Fill or Kill
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The opening episode of the six-part Amazon series features a heist of the pension management company Lochmill Capital by a group of armed robbers (Jonathan Slinger, Yusra Warsama, Andrew Howard, Díana Bermudez, Shaun Mason, and Tomisin Ajani) taking control of the entire floor of the skyscraper and forcing through a trade worth four-billion pounds. Filled mostly with chaos and panic, the characters we learn the most about are trade processors Zara Dunne (Sophie Turner) and Luke Selborn (Archie Madekwe) who, after showing the new intern around that morning, are forced into cooperating with the robbers and are instrumental in getting the trade approved.

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Crime 101

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  • Title: Crime 101
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Writer/director Bart Layton‘s adaptation of Don Winslow‘s novella offers a mix between a heist film and a drama featuring the interconnected lives of strangers who converge. Our characters include our noble and uncatchable thief (Chris Hemsworth), the girl (Monica Barbaro) he begins dating after she literally crashes into him, a good cop (Mark Ruffalo) on the outs with his own department for following evidence rather than towing the company line, a middle-aged insurance agent (Halle Berry) passed over for another raise, and a second, more reckless, thief (Barry Keoghan) looking to steal a big score from Hemsworth’s character.

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Now You See Me: Now You Don’t

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  • Title: Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
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Mixing magicians into a hesit film for something undeniably cool, if a bit overly-complicated, Now You See Me gave us Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, and Isla Fisher as four young magicians brought together by a mysterious secret organization to use their skills and sleight of hand to deal a bit of justice to the wealthy who have skirted their responsibilities. The clusterfuck of a sequel even further over-complicated the story, removed key figures from the plot, and retconned the motivations of a key antagonist leading to a dismal follow up that somehow didn’t kill this franchise.

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The Thomas Crown Affair

/ / Home Video
  • Title: The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
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1999’s remake of the 1968 film about a multi-million dollar heist is certain an improvement on the original trading in a lackluster bank heist for stylish museum thefts of fine art. Casting Pierce Brosnan is the middle of his James Bond run as the bored rich man who steals art for his own amusement, the film never hits the Ocean’s 11 level of cool but it certainly has some cachet. Opposite our thief we get Rene Russo as the insurance investigator suspicious of Thomas Crown who also starts dating him (first for access but later feelings do develop as the pair consistently trade barbs).

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