Discovering good movies, one bad movie at a time


Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a group of colorful figures pool their unique talents to execute a perfect crime, probably involving an elaborately choreographed interchange of people in relation to the world’s most advanced security system. This time around, it’s Logan Lucky, which of course isn’t even the first time that director Steven Soderbergh has visited this genre. That this same man, in this same idiom, gifted Ocean’s Eleven onto the world is reason enough for us all to be excited about his newest film.

We were so excited that we celebrated it with our Top 5 Heists episode! No points for guessing in advance whose list will be mostly European movies from the ’60s, and who will try to argue “this movie stole my heart – that’s like a heist, right?”

In Worth Mentioning, Carrie and Rob share their displeasure with Madagascar and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa while Tim heads back to the 80’s with a the horror flick Dolls.

Rob

Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
The Italian Job (2003)
Sneakers (1992)
The Lookout (2007)

Carrie

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
Entrapment (1999)
Now You See Me (2013)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

Tim

Rififi (1955)
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
The Killing (1956)
How to Steal a Million (1966)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)