The Maiden Heist
Three veteran security guards for an art museum are desperate since the artworks which they love are moving to another country. So they devise a plan steal the artwork from the museum and have the pieces for themselves.
The Maiden Heist is a small movie with three great actors: Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, and the hilarious William H. Macy. This movie is pleasant entertainment especially for those who are knowledgeable in the arts. It’s a lot of fun seeing three old-timers trying to pull off an Ocean’s Eleven heist and also how luck and passion for their loved works of art drive them to take on this task which we all would love to do.
Gangs of New York
An Irish immigrant tries to take on the very powerful and influential man behind the most fearless and dominating mob organization in Civil War New York City.
This film is one of the bloodiest, hard dramas in cinema history and that is just the first twenty minutes of the film. The movie invokes realism in recreating 1860s NYC where racism came to all directions as even white people hated the Irish immigrants; New York was on the brink of seceding from the Union, and the early beginnings of mobs. Gangs of New York is not for the queasy as there are a lot of intense scenes, but these scenes are necessary to establish the realism of not only urban gang warfare, but the culture of America during a very hard period of time. This film is definitely worth a watch.
Exit through the Gift Shop
A documentary directed by the elusive graffiti artist Banksy who tells the story of Thierry Guetta, an eccentric Frenchman who documents the underground graffiti world and then becomes an artist on his own.
I know, documentaries are boring and not fun to watch, but this documentary is just a surprising entertaining movie. It tells us the story of a very egotistical man who films almost every waking moment of his life. Then he gets caught up in the underground world of graffiti art, traveling around the world and following the different artists behind this movement. Banksy, probably the most controversial and famous graffiti artist ever, becomes part of his documentation (look him up, his work is interesting and eye popping and he actually made one of the couch scenes for The Simpsons). Be warned though, you will laugh at the craziness behind the documentary. There’s actually a controversy over the fact that this documentary may be a farce since the story is way too good to be true. Whatever the case may be, this movie is still an enjoyable documentary. An awesome oxymoron.