Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale ''The Killers'' is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak (Criss Cross), in...
1998 Russian film directed by Darezhan Omirbaev. Original Russian title, Tueur a gages. 'Darezhan Omirbaev presents a spare and muted, yet compelling and incisive account of despair, rootlessness,...
From the mind of writer Ryu Murakami comes the satirical tale of two groups of outsiders who make war on each other, set to a soundtrack of retro karaoke hits. A gang of young slacker guys (the...
Philip Markoff had it all. A straight-A medical student with a beautiful Fiancee, Philip had a future others could only envy. But when a masseuse is murdered by a man she meets through an ad she...
Everyone could use a support system-including, it seems, contract assassins-and the veteran hired gun known only as the Man (Gary Oldman) has his hands full facilitating the 12-step program at his...