The Mark of Cain

May 13, 2021 by Rachel Walther in Crime Movies

Axel Freed (James Caan) is desperately trying to become a loser on his own terms in James Toback’s The Gambler (1974). Directed by Karel Reisz, costarring Paul Sorvino and Lauren Hutton.

Fingers

November 21, 2015 by Rachel Walther in Crime Movies

Fingers (1978) is an insane movie. It inhabits the same netherworld of late 1970s New York as Taxi Driver, a world of crime infested R Crumb Hustler filth pits with everyone wearing boots and feathers.