The War on Drugs provides the high-stakes setting for Sicario, with the surprise being that it’s taken this long for a thriller to use such a fertile real world milieu. (more…)

The War on Drugs provides the high-stakes setting for Sicario, with the surprise being that it’s taken this long for a thriller to use such a fertile real world milieu. (more…)
Leaning into Dalton’s darker portrayal and piggybacking on 80’s action movie trends, Licence to Kill may be the most un-Bondlike film yet and is certainly the most violent.
Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014)
Dir: Andrea Di Stefano
Pablo Escobar finally makes it to the big screen* but ends up playing second-fiddle to a Canadian surfer dude in the drug world thriller Escobar: Paradise Lost. (more…)