A grifter builds a scheme to get his neck out of a noose and con millions from big evil in #JamesFoley’s slick neo-noir, CONFIDENCE. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/c...
Style Can Get You Killed: Confidence (2002)
Jake Vig (Edward Burns) is a swindler with a regular crew. He works with slick Miles (Brian VanHolt), nebbish Gordo (Paul Giamatti), and slouching but believable shill Big Al (Louis Lombardi). When…
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February 2, 2026 at 2:25 AM
A grifter builds a scheme to get his neck out of a noose and con millions from big evil in #JamesFoley’s slick neo-noir, CONFIDENCE. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/c...
A boxer gets pulled into a kidnapping scheme in #JamesFoley’s exquisite adaptation of #JimThompson’s hardboiled novel, AFTER DARK, MY SWEET. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/a...
Funny How Sometimes Things That Aren’t True Are More True Than the Truth: After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
Former boxer Collie (Jason Patric) walked out of an institution some time back, and he’s been walking ever since. With a paper parcel of his few belongings under one arm, he makes his way across th…
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January 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
A boxer gets pulled into a kidnapping scheme in #JamesFoley’s exquisite adaptation of #JimThompson’s hardboiled novel, AFTER DARK, MY SWEET. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/a...
Real estate has never been so cutthroat as in #JamesFoley’s adaptation of #DavidMamet’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/g...
You Can’t Close, Then Hit the Bricks Pal Because You Are Going Out: Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Four shady real estate salesmen struggling to get by with lousy leads are about to be given a new incentive to nail signatures on a rainy night. Only office manager John Williamson (Kevin Spacey) h…
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January 19, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Real estate has never been so cutthroat as in #JamesFoley’s adaptation of #DavidMamet’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/g...
A man sentenced to death row must rely on a youthful but inexperienced lawyer to win his freedom. High stakes abound in #JamesFoley’s adaptation of #JohnGrisham’s legal thriller, THE CHAMBER. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/c...
Celebrating the Destruction of the Unwanted: The Chamber (1996)
When an explosion rips through the Indianola, Mississippi law offices of Marshall Kramer (Seth Isler) in 1967, it takes the lives of the lawyer’s two children, Josh (Sid Johnson) and John (Blake Jo…
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January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
A man sentenced to death row must rely on a youthful but inexperienced lawyer to win his freedom. High stakes abound in #JamesFoley’s adaptation of #JohnGrisham’s legal thriller, THE CHAMBER. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/c...
Rural noir comes alive when #ChristopherWalken and #SeanPenn butt heads as father and son in a Pennsylvania crime saga. #JamesFoley’s AT CLOSE RANGE offers gritty thrills aplenty. @cine-matographe.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/a...
I Have A Tale to Tell: At Close Range (1986)
Bradford “Little Brad” Whitewood, Jr. (Sean Penn) came to town when his brother and friends needed help getting their money back from a guy who offered to buy them booze and then didn’t. Tommy Whit…
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January 5, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Rural noir comes alive when #ChristopherWalken and #SeanPenn butt heads as father and son in a Pennsylvania crime saga. #JamesFoley’s AT CLOSE RANGE offers gritty thrills aplenty. @cine-matographe.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/a...