New-school genre junk food: Take a Tarantino wannabe with Sundance credentials, add a large, famous-enough cast and a show-biz backdrop, season the violence with references to Sergio Leone and Takeshi ...

Smokin’ Aces is a comedy crime thriller that follows Buddy ‘Aces’ Israel, a magician-turned-mob informant who decides to testify against a mafia in Las Vegas. The movie was directed and written by Joe ...

If movies were allowed an entire report card, "Smokin' Aces" should get an A for effort, but as for the rest of the grades, it would level out around the C- to D+ range. While "Smokin' Aces" deserves ...

What if Frank Sinatra decided to be a mob boss? Joe Carnahan turned the thought of the swooner who hung out at Tahoe’s North Shore into the idea for “Smokin’ Aces,” an R-rated action flick soaked with ...

“Smokin’ Aces” is a pitiful attempt at making a big-budget gangster movie. A wild assortment of hired killers chase after a snitch about to testify against the mob. The hit men try very hard to be ...

flicks? There are indeed movies that no self-respecting woman would see unless it’s to please her Neanderthal husband, and these are usually characterized by a high degree of gratuitous violence. For ...