Apartment Zero (1988)

Two roommates in Buenos Aires getting to know each other over breakfast, the British owner of the apartment, Adrian DeLuc (Colin Firth) asks the new American tenant, Jack Carney (Hart Bochner), “Do you like cinema?” The film, Apartment Zero (1988), then cuts to an exterior shot of the cinema that Adrian runs, Adrian and Jack […]

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Sabotage (2014)

In the space of a week, I watched both Triple 9 and Sabotage (2014), which would make a good double feature under the sub-genre of “corrupt cops commit heist”. Along with Den Of Thieves, there’s a similar post-Heat aesthetic but jacked-up with scumbag Monster drink energy. While Triple 9 has some great sequences, looks amazing, […]

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