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"...Memphis scene that coalesced around the Antenna Club, the Grifters doubled down on the disheveled end of the underground..."
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Nov. 9, 2015 Music Post by Greg Beets
Lege Finds Even More Funds for Anti-Choice Grifters
Alternatives to Abortion program gets $100M in House budget
April 30, 2021 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Lege Finds Even More Funds for Anti-Choice Grifters
Alternatives to Abortion program gets $100M in House budget
April 23, 2021 News Post by Mary Tuma
Nakia Gets Tied to the Whipping Post
New video previews covers collection
"...Brothers Band classic “Whipping Post,” Nakia & the Blues Grifters advance the frontman’s long deferred collection of soul and..."
April 2, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin
El Planeta
Spanish tale of mother-daughter grifters is an intriguing debut
"...inspired by the true story of mother and daughter grifters who bilked various merchants in the coastal city of..."
Oct. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Heartbreakers
"...Reunion, combines elements of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Grifters alongside a wealth of stock comic hijinks and gets..."
March 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Swindle
"...with his sexy, increasingly independent-minded protégé. A fairly standard grifters' cross/doublecross setup drives the plot, but far more interesting..."
July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith
The Kill-Off
"...Thompson's nihilistic pulp noir novels turned into films: The Grifters, After Dark, My Sweet and now, The Kill-Off. Thompson's..."
July 12, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Regarding Henry
"...a far cry from her previous role in The Grifters, but that just reinforces the character's believability. The only..."
July 12, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Luv Doc: Too F%#ing Flirty
People are born grifters, swindlers, and loafers and are therefore deserving of our contempt
"...to run with the idea that people are born grifters, swindlers, and loafers and are therefore deserving of our..."
April 28, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc
Nine Queens
Inventive and lively caper film is as low-key in its technical execution as a sidewalk shell game but fueled by a frisky energy and a blithely circuitous storyline.
"...Tomás Fonzi, Óscar Núñez, Celia Juárez and Ignasi Abadal. Grifters Juan (Pauls) and Marcos (Darín) cross paths in a..."
May 31, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
No Prozac for the Wicked
The Cool Capers of Donald Westlake
"...to have on their resumé. Westlake's screenplay for The Grifters, adapted from the Jim Thompson novel, won a well-deserved..."
Dec. 26, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett
Record Reviews
"...THE GRIFTERS..."
Oct. 24, 1997 Music Review
Water to Wine
One lifetime and 34 seconds is all it took for Nakia to find his Voice
"...the Saxon Pub, with his new band, the Blues Grifters – guitarist Mac McNabb, bassist Chris Johnson, and drummer..."
Sept. 9, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell
Eight Men Out, The Grifters, Say Anything
"...-- able to pivot between playing both villain (The Grifters) and victim (Eight Men Out), hero of action (Con..."
March 31, 2000 Screens Review by Sarah Hepola
Sharper
A stylishly smart and satisfying con artist drama
"...film with a kind of old-school gravitas as mother-and-son grifters preying on billionaires in the upper echelons of Manhattan..."
Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis
The Last Shift
Different visions of the modern American working class, all beaten by the same system
"...performance as the pater familias of a clan of grifters in Kajillionaire. He doesn't weigh Stanley down with an..."
Sept. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Nakia
"...the semifinals of The Voice. Reunited with his Blues Grifters, the 'Bama-raised belter homages ultimate grifters like Stevie Ray..."
Sept. 28, 2018 Music Review by Alejandra Ramirez
Gay Place
"...Unplugged at the Grove With Nakia & the Blues Grifters Nakia & the Blues Grifters give you free concert,..."
July 28, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff
Gay Place
Cheers, queers!
"...Unplugged at the Grove With Nakia & the Blues Grifters Nakia & the Blues Grifters give you free concert,..."
July 21, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff
Baywatch
Some people stand in the darkness ...
"...There are cameos, a few engaging callbacks, and sand grifters, but for the most part, Baywatch resembles a scarce..."
May 26, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Philomena
Judi Dench and Steve Coogan star in this drama about the search for a woman's son who was taken from her when he was a toddler.
"...the director of High Fidelity, The Queen, and The Grifters back on firmer dramatic ground with Philomena, following the..."
Nov. 29, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Tamara Drewe
Stephen Frears directs this romantic romp that combines the bedroom farce and the pastoral and stars Gemma Arterton.
"...a very fine director of women (Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters), can't seem to suss out anything but a zero..."
Nov. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Joneses
David Duchovny and Demi Moore star in this partially successful comedy about consumer culture that turns uncomfortably moralistic part way through.
"...upscale lifestyle. In another movie, the Joneses might be grifters out to fleece the community or deep-undercover detectives trying..."
April 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Cheri
Another dangerous liaison, this one based on the Colette novella, reunites director Stephen Frears and star Michelle Pfeiffer.
"...CV that’s gone from My Beautiful Laundrette to beautiful Grifters and The Queen in a public relations crisis), and..."
June 26, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Savage Grace
You can almost smell the desperation in the twisted psychosexuality of Savage Grace, the film purportedly based on the true story of a mother-son relationship that went tragically wrong.
"...film based on Jim Thompson’s pulp fiction novel, The Grifters. One thing’s guaranteed: When Anjelica Huston’s conniving Lilly comes..."
July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Mrs. Henderson Presents
This staid British music-hall drama seems calculated to earn Judi Dench lots of award notices. Mission accomplished.
"...Frears of the gritty My Beautiful Laundrette and The Grifters amid all the aristocratic bearings of Mrs. Henderson Presents...."
Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Dirty Pretty Things
Stephen Frears’ low-key thriller casts its eye toward the furtive lives of London’s illegal immigrants.
"...Dirty Pretty Things, the estimable filmmaker Stephen Frears (The Grifters, High Fidelity) has concocted one of the most low-key..."
Aug. 29, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Picks & Sleepers
"...Guided by Voices has ascended into cult superstardom, the Grifters' memory has faded as they splinter into a growing..."
March 15, 2002 Music Feature
Liam
"...he comes more clearly into focus: High Fidelity, The Grifters, Dangerous Liaisons, My Beautiful Laundrette. Just as the breadth..."
