Scene Stealers

We are pulling an all-nighter with Victoria this week on Scene Stealers. For The Vault Charles continues his love for Denis Villeneuve and riding sand worms talking about Dune Part Two. Leo flexes his muscles talking about a new movie for his Vault choice with Rose Glass’ strong neo-noir Love Lies Bleeding. The main take is 2015’s German film Victoria. Directed by Sebastian Schipper, the story follows a women named Victoria, played by the lovely Laia Costa, who has a fun night out of dancing, meets a group of guys, and finds herself mixed up with the wrong people. The catch, however, is that Victoria is filmed in one singular take, with the camera constantly moving, and the intensity taking the audience for a wild ride. Find out what Leo & Charles think on this episode of Scene Stealers!

We are still a Heist movie podcast but this week on Scene Stealers we can't stop talking about Anne Hathaway. Or everyone in Ocean's Eight for that matter. Leo and Charles love talking about another Ocean's movie and this time it is with a killer cast of cool leading ladies. For The Vault, Leo expresses his love for 1987's Masters of the Universe. Charles is spending time in the sand talking about Denis Villeneuve's Dune. The big take is 2018's Ocean's Eight, starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, the lovely Miss Hathaway, and this new crew. Leo and Charles discuss the Met Gala Heist, expanding the Ocean's universe, and how Ocean's Eight is worth another look. Give it a listen! 

This week we add an extra Layer on Scene Stealers. We are talking about Matthew Vaughn's 2004 debut feature Layer Cake. For The Vault segment, Leo is talking about the 1986 Sylvester Stallone action flick Cobra and Charles is talking about Daniel Kaluuya's directing debut with the 2023 dystopian film The Kitchen. The main attraction is Layer Cake, which is all about gangsters and an unsuccessful drug heist. It was a breakthrough film for Daniel Craig, helping him land the Bond role and the beginning of Vaughn's rising career.  Leo and Charles discuss Craig's grounded demeanor, the misuse of an all-star cast, and an unpredictable ending. We baked a nice cake this week on Scene Stealers, won't you have a taste? Or at least a listen...

This week on Scene Stealers we are talking about our first heist documentary and it is a big one with Daniel Gordon’s Billion Dollar Heist. For The Vault we are paying our respects to the late great Carl Weathers. Charles is talking about 1996s Happy Gilmore and Leo is going deeper into the vault for 1988s Action Jackson. The main take is our first documentary feature, Billion Dollar Heist, which covers the 2016 cyber theft of the Bangladeshi Central Bank. There are a lot of moving parts but Leo and Charles cover a lot of ground, both on how the money was stolen and how it connected to past cyber-attacks. Listen right now:

It’s another episode of Scene Stealers- Archetypes Series and this week it is The Leader of the Heist Crew. These are the people that have the savvy and skill to gather a top crew, put together a plan, and execute it to perfection. There may be some familiar names on this list but when you are the top dawg, what comes with that position is all of the pressure, and everything to lose. Charles and Leo have a fun time discussing this group and naming their Top 5 because these are the characters that make the heist movie happen. Give a listen!

The big five-O! This is our 50th episode of Scene Stealers and it is a good one- The Town. We saunter into The Vault and talk about a few cool movies- Charles is talking about the newly Oscar-nominated film American Fiction and Leo is playing with his toys, talking about Joe Dante's Small Soldiers. But we just want to be authentisious for this episode which is why we love talking about Ben Affleck's 2010 classic The Town. Charles discusses why The Town has one of the best heist crews and his appreciation for their scary masks, while Leo shares his Boston accent and ranks the movies directed by Affleck. But overall, it's a celebration of hitting the 50 mark, and we're doing it with one hell of a heist movie. Listen in...or are you a narrc? 

Welcome to the Jungle...We've got fun and games. Well, what we have is the 49th episode of Scene Stealers. We are talking about John Huston's 1950 film The Asphalt Jungle. For The Vault, Leo is throwing jabs and talking about Rocky III. Charles has a fresh jewel from The Vault, the highly acclaimed film about the Von Erich wrestling family- The Iron Claw. The main event is The Asphalt Jungle, featuring an all-star cast of actors, Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, and the legendary Marilyn Monroe. It begins as what should be an easy jewel heist but as we've seen before...One way or another, we all work for our vice. Give a listen: 

Super rich kids with nothing but loose ends…This week on Scene Stealers we’re talking about Sofia Coppola’s 2013 film The Bling Ring. For The Vault Charles is still in the Christmas spirit talking about Falling for Christmas and Leo is smitten with the 2020 apocalypse movie Love and Monsters. The main take is The Bling Ring, based on actual events, about a group of privileged teenagers breaking into celebrity mansions and stealing without a care. It’s a rare episode where Leo & Charles are not in agreement which makes things even more fun. Listen now!

It’s time for the 2nd Annual Holiday Heistmas episode! This year we get a visit from a bright guest, someone who really knows how to make his presence glow. But what we're most excited about is that we are talking about the 1990 Christmas movie classic- Home Alone. Leo goes into The Vault for the new Eddie Murphy film Candy Cane Lane and Charles is searching for a Turbo Man doll with Jingle All the Way. The main movie is Home Alone and we dissect why the Wet Bandits is a great crew name, how greed gets the better of Harry & Marv, plus the ways Kevin could have helped himself. It’s all on Scene Stealers, so…crowbar's up!

This week on Scene Stealers we bear the gift of an insightful heist movie discussion. We are talking about the 1999 film Three Kings, directed by David O. Russell. For The Vault, Leo professes his admiration for Al Pacino in the 1989 murder mystery Sea of Love, and Charles is taking us back into the web with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The main take is Three Kings, starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, and Ice Cube, as a group of soldiers in the Persian Gulf War on a mission to take gold from a bunker of Saddam Hussein. It brings out all sorts of conversations about war, the charisma of Clooney, and why it's called Three Kings. Give it a listen.