Criminally Underrated: Den of Thieves 2: Pantera - Spectrum Culture

Weekend Watch List: Deadly Dads, Horny Dogs, And Den Of Thieves

Every week, we take a look at what’s hitting cinemas and streaming and separate the wheat from the chaff. Bob Odenkirk is back to crack more skulls for our entertainment this week, under the direction of one of the most exciting action directors to come along in a good long while. Other than that, streaming is obviously all about Alien: Earth this week, and I’m not gonna get all iconoclastic and try to pick another release for the spotlight. Eve…

Criminally Underrated: Den of Thieves 2: Pantera - Spectrum Culture

In 2009, film critic Andrew Tracy coined the term “vulgar auteurism” to describe the late-period work of director Michael Mann, whose films, namely Public Enemies (2009), Blackhat (2015), and especially Miami Vice (2006), have gone on to receive varying degrees of critical reappraisal in the years since their release. To those films’ most ardent defenders (many of whom also champion the likes of Michael Bay and Paul W.S. Anderson), contemporary …