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 fol...

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 th...

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 unsu...

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...

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 L...

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 Af...

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 Ju...

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 in...

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 A...

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,...

Things are getting Real…The Real McCoy that is. This week on Scene Stealers we are getting into the spirit of The 90s with Russell Mulcahy’s 1993 heist film. For The Vault we get animated with Leo talking about Trolls Band Together and Charles getting cooled off with Frozen. The main event does not disappoint, with Kim Basinger and Val Kilmer bringing their sexy energy, in this hidden heist movie...

Don’t Panic. Just get in the room with Leo and Charles this week on Scene Stealers. For The Vault, Charles is money baby and talking about Swingers. Leo is making it a David Fincher double and taking out the newest film The Killer. For the main take, it’s Fincher’s 2002 thriller Panic Room. It has a crazy cool cast of Jodi Foster, Forrest Whitaker, Kristen Stewart, Jared Leto, and Dwight Yoakum. W...

Things are getting pretty spooky here at Scene Stealers…This week we get a visit from a special scary guest who knows how to bite into heist movies…Dracula! We are in the Halloween spirit and this weeks heist movie is a house robbery that turns bad quickly in Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe. For The Vault, Leo and Charles take out a pair of Tim Burton flicks, with the kid friendly Frankenweenie for L...

Let's ride! This week on Scene Stealers we are riding shotgun with Memphis Raines and the rest of the crew for Gone in 60 Seconds. For The Vault we are talking about new movies and getting into the spirit of scary movie season. Leo talks about the newest Stephen King adaptation with Pet Sematary: Bloodlines and Charles is talking about new chum in The Meg 2: The Trench. The Main Take is Domin...

We are 41 episodes in at Scene Stealers and at this rate we could be Kajillionaires. Or at least the movie we are talking about this week is Miranda July’s 2020 independent film Kajillionaire. For The Vault Leo goes to deposit box 1993 to talk about the futuristic action flick Demolition Man and Charles gets a bit nutty with 1999’s Girl, Interrupted. The Safe is Cracked and we are talking about Ka...

On this special episode of Scene Stealers we are once again digging into the Archetypes of Heist movies. When you are pulling off a heist things can tend to get wild. That’s why it is always important to have a “Wild Card”. This is the person in the group who is unpredictable but also willing to do the things others would not. You need that person in the group, for better and for worse. Charles an...

A master thief, an escaped criminal, and an alcoholic former policeman walk into a jewelry store. No it’s not a bad joke- it’s The Red Circle . This week Leo and Charles are talking about Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic. For The Vault Leo takes us back to 1985 with Richard Donner’s adventure with misfits The Goonies . Charles is excited to take a wormhole to his Vault pick of Christopher Nolan’s In...

We get to be a couple of American Animals this week on Scene Stealers! When we go into the Vault Charles is stepping into the ring to talk about a classic Best Picture winner Rocky. Leo is all about Samuel L. Jackson in 1998’s The Negotiator, which makes it the third F. Gary Gray movie talked about on Scene Stealers. The main event is director Bart Layton’s 2018 True Story Art Heist- American Anim...

No, you don’t have déjà vu, we are talking about The Italian Job again…only this time it is the 2003 version directed by F. Gary Gray. For The Vault section of our show, Leo is taking us to Never Never Land by talking about Steven Spielberg’s Hook. Charles is being a rambunctious high school kid and talking about Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The big picture is The Italian Job, starring Mark Wahlberg,...

This week on Scene Stealers we are having a laugh but don’t call us stupid! The movie we are talking about is the 1988 comedy A Fish Called Wanda. In The Vault this week, Leo is talking about David Cronenberg’s controversial NC-17 movie Crash and Charles is talking sports with the 2011 Oscar Nominated film Moneyball. For the main course we are reeling in a big one in Charles Crichton & John Cl...

On this very special episode of Scene Stealers we take a trip to New Orleans in the Irish Channel. Leo and Charles were so excited about talking with the director William Kaufman, we just had to do an episode on his thrilling new heist movie- The Channel. Leo and Charles dig into what worked for them and what did not, the authenticity of the action, and the inspiration from movies like Heat and De...

This week on Scene Stealers we live our lives a quarter mile at a time. Whatever that means. But seriously, we are talking about Rob Cohen's 2001 foreign film The Fast and the Furious. We say foreign because it started what would become the biggest heist movie franchise of all time but it looks nothing like what we get in the future. This is a damn good movie. For the vault, Leo talks about G...

Director and writer William Kaufman is finally getting the attention he deserves. His newest film The Channel is undoubtedly his best work yet. It’s a thrilling heist movie, about two brothers that live in the Irish Channel of New Orleans, where a bank robbery goes wrong and they must rally together to survive a city-wide manhunt. We are so excited at Scene Stealers to have William as our guest fo...

Respect is the ultimate currency. This week on Scene Stealers we welcome our 2nd guest- Patrick Bromley from the F This Movie! Podcast. Patrick has been a great voice in the world of film criticism with his weekly podcast, as the editor for his website FThisMovie, and writing for other sites such as Bloody Disgusting. But for this episode we have brought him in for his expertise on Spike Lee films...

This week on Scene Stealers "We're having too good a time today. We ain't thinking about tomorrow." That's at least the way we do it when it's Public Enemies Week. Leo and Charles can not wait to "Crack the Safe" and talk about Michael Mann's 2009 gangster film. Before they do, however, they go "Into the Vault" to talk about Jurrasic Park 3 an...