We Still Steal the Old Way

Richie makes a phone call

Second of the trilogy, We Still Steal the Old Way arrived two years after 2014’s We Still Kill the Old Way and three years before We Still Die the Old Way. Aged gangsters is the idea. Geezer gangsters, this being a London-set caper. If you watched the first movie, you might have been amused to discover that the guys in question are meant to be the team behind the Italian Job back in the 1960s. That would make them very old, wouldn’t it? Ian Ogilvy is back as Richie Archer, the gang leader who’s a cross between a lovable old rogue and a nasty piece of work, this time deliberately getting himself nabbed … Read more

The Avengers: Series 6, Episode 13 – They Keep Killing Steed

Norman Jones and Ray McAnally

Improbable and fluffy, They Keep Killing Steed is a prime screenplay by showrunner and writer Brian Clemens, and a clear sign that the series is entirely back on track with a plot pivoting on the ideas of doubles – a classic Clemens trope. The fluidly cinematic Robert Fuest does directorial duty in a plot that leans heavily on Patrick Macnee – he plays at least four, possibly five Steeds, created to undo a peace conference by substituting the real thing with one of the obviously dodgy fakes. Tara King, meanwhile, gets a “double” plot of her own, when she’s co-opted by himbo babe-magnet billionaire Baron Von Curt (Ian Ogilvy) to act as his … Read more

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