Armored

An armored truck robbery of $42 million is an inside job in this action film starring Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, and Jean Reno.

"...Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 gets that honor), Armored is a serviceable and solid slab of testosterone, gunfire,..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bill & Ted Face the Music

Can we all finally just be excellent to each other?

"...older but no wiser, sweet as can be, and armored from the world by with a profound moral compass..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Even the Rain

Amid citizen unrest in Bolivia, a Spanish film crew attempts to mount a revisionist history of Christopher Columbus.

"...imagining of how to direct a foot chase with armored soldiers and frothing dogs. You could argue a slender..."

April 15, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Lebanon

This brutally real-feeling Israeli film about the war in Lebanon in 1982 received the top prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2009.

"...the action almost exclusively to the inside of an armored tank. Four soldiers sit like sardines and wait for..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Hasbro brings their boy toys to life with this story about an elite fighting squad.

"...Cobra, it appears that the military issues high tech armored suits to their elite squads which also allow the..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

Animated Japanese sequel about the legendary bounty hunter.

"...a bizarre medieval-futurist mélange of flashing laser pistols and armored stallions snorting gore, but any way you slice it..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Where the Money is

"...means to save her flagging romance by staging an armored-car robbery with Henry. She's so fed up with her..."

April 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

Armored Car Robbery

"...are drenched in inky blackness. At the very least, Armored Car Robbery should be mentioned along with Anthony Mann's..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Screens Feature

Steel

"...project features the sky-blotting LA Lakers pivotman as the armored crimefighter of DC Comics fame. Shaq plays former army..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Underneath

"...nonlinear story line. Essentially an anatomy of a botched armored-car heist, The Underneath is the story of a man..."

April 28, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

From Beijing With Love

"...to recover a stolen dinosaur head from a mysterious armored man with a golden gun. Along the way, he..."

Jan. 27, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

What Can Austin Learn From Ferguson?

"...in Ferguson are those of American citizens standing before armored police vehicles with M-16s pointed at them by police..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Postmarks

Naked City

In the ongoing trial in Waco, the Branch Davidians’ attorney is arguing that the FBI was too quick to resort to massive weaponry during its siege on the Davidians’ compound, endangering the lives of women and children inside.

"...most sophisticated battle tank ever built. In all, the armored hardware used by the FBI at Mount Carmel weighed..."

June 30, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Mad God

Phil Tippett's stop motion masterpiece of depravity and the divine

"...is a story, if Alice was a masked and leather-armored interloper, and the Red Queen was a festering mass..."

July 1, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

New French Shorts

Queer and immigrant stories, satire and romance give new perspectives on French culture

"...problematic psyhcohistory (a term explained to him by an armored knight he finds buried in a field). A broad..."

May 15, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Early Man

Aardman's prehistoric animation has some evolving to do.

"...uprooted from its verdant home by an invading, heavily armored force led by the nefarious Lord Nooth (Hiddleston). Shenanigans..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Whose Streets?

A you-are-there portrait of the tragedy in Ferguson

"...looters were met by an overkill paramilitary response of armored vehicles, tear gas canisters, and rubber bullets on a..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Noir City Emerges From the Shadows

Film festival delves into film noir deep cuts

"...Armored Car Robbery (1950) Saturday, 7pm...."

May 19, 2017 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Do Not Resist Charts the Rise of the Militarization of Law Enforcement

Documentary offers a critical look at evolving present-day policing efforts

"...to accept a $258,000 grant to purchase a BearCat armored truck. The viewer is subsequently transported to police's misplaced..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

The Hightower Report: Look Out, Here Come the Drones

When police and privacy butt heads

"...full riot regalia, positioning them in their Bearcat, an armored vehicle...."

Jan. 25, 2013 News Column by Jim Hightower

Predators

This Robert Rodriguez-produced film doesn't try to be a sequel to the Schwarzenegger picture but, instead, is a new story about humans hunted by the merciless Predators.

"...made Kontroll and the more recent, well-done heist flick Armored) returned to the Schwarzeneggerian basics of this most dangerous..."

July 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dirty Money

Richard Stark's professional thief is back in action

"...itself took place only a week after the big armored-car job detailed in 2004's Nobody Runs Forever. Things went..."

May 9, 2008 Books Review by Jesse Sublett

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...An armored car doesn't look all that different from a regular..."

March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

The Hightower Report

Bushites fail to protect troops; and Wall Street divides up the bonus booty

"...Equally disgusting, many soldiers have died because their lightly armored Humvees are easily penetrated by roadside bombs. An armored..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

Burnt Money

"...robbers working with inside help to knock over an armored car transporting the day's deposits. “Have you heard of..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Money for Nothing

"...bills, a product of the defective lock on an armored car just leaving the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank. It..."

March 23, 2001 Screens Review by Eli Kooris

Trial and Error

Questions raised about whether cards were stacked against Davidians in their civil suit against the federal government.

"...surrender by 4pm. When the Davidians refused to respond, armored vehicles moved in and crushed a number of motorcycles..."

Aug. 18, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Postmarks

Recent coverage of light rail and of access-TV personality Alex Jones pushes readers' buttons this week.

"...he states he has "never seen nor heard of" armored fire-fighting equipment. It does exist, but is primarily used..."

July 28, 2000 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...armors. Therefore, the FBI put out a call for armored vehicles to protect its agents from the possible threat..."

July 14, 2000 Column

Celebrity

"...the writer of magazine fluff pieces and screenplays about armored-car heists who abandons those trivial pursuits for the more..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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