gangster – FilmFest Salon

Tribeca 2016: “Detour”

By filmfestsalonMay 6, 2016Film Review BlogAlfred Molina, Bel Powley, Boogie Nights, Christopher Smith, classic, comatose, drug dealer, Film Festival, film noir, gangster, hooker, Las Vegas, oscars, Risky Business, Tom Cruise, Tribeca, Tye Sheridan, violence

British writer-director Christopher Smith knows his noir. He knows that when you watch his film, you will also be reminded of other movies when you see: a cop order the (anti)hero to open the trunk of his car: a hooker who is frantically packing to get out of Vegas before her pimp kills her, when there’s a […]

Tribeca 2016: “The Loner”

In The Loner, his first feature, director Daniel Grove follows the story of Behrouz, starting with his forced service as a child soldier – a “Basiji” – fighting for Iran in the war with Iraq. The story then advances to his life as an adult immigrant in the underworld of Los Angeles, specifically the Persian […]