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Mars Attacks! (1996)

7.2 (28 Ratings) Rate It

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See...Stars that shine across the galaxy. Jack Nicholson (in a dual role), Glenn Close, Annette...

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014)

8.0 (4 Ratings) Rate It

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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces is a 2014 feature-length compilation of deleted and extended scenes...

Awix (3310 KP) rated King of Thieves (2018) in Movies

Oct 10, 2018

King of Thieves (2018)

2018 | Action, Crime, Drama

6.6

(13 Ratings)

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Michael Caine leads a crack team of crock crooks in robbing a safe deposit vault in London in this loosely-based-on-reality black comedy thriller. Quite apart from Caine, the film has an excellent cast (Jim Broadbent, Tom Courtenay, Ray Winstone, Paul Whitehouse, and Michael Gambon, plus Charlie Cox for the streaming generation), which will probably be what draws most people to it.

Initially this looks like it's going to be a slightly cosy comedy thriller about blokes who are too old be robbers any more, but - very pleasantly - it quite soon acquires some real heft and gravity to it, with the various members of the gang falling out and attempting to double-cross each other - most of these actors are well-known as comedians, but there is some proper meaty drama here and scenes with a definite tension to them.

Not quite as much Caine as you might hope for, but he is still the guv'nor as far as British film acting is concerned, and this is his best role for a while. Everyone else is good too. The film never quite gets the shifts between comedy and gangster thriller right, and the low budget keeps it from being very cinematic, but it's an engaging movie driven by great performances.

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Founder (2017) in Movies

Oct 16, 2017 (Updated Oct 16, 2017)

The land of finders keepers, losers weepers

The story of McDonald's pretty much sums up the American dream sadly. A crook of a salesman / businessman Ray Kroc, played by Michael Keaton, comes across two hardworking brothers Mac (John Carroll Lynch) and Dick McDonald (Nick Offerman), who have essentially cracked the idea of how to provide fast food.

They are satisfied with their humble beginnings at a small diner in San Bernardino, but are cajoled by Kroc into franchising - who essentially steals it from under their nose by buying the land that it was based upon. It's really quite tragic because Kroc turned it from an honest operation into the greedy corporation that we have today. That being said, I love Keaton, he's versatile and can play anything from a lovable scallywag to evil incarnate.

While it's not Oscar worthy as such, it's an interesting biopic nevertheless.