Scene Stealers

This week on Scene Stealers we are only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! Or at least, we hope to blow the bloody doors off. It’s hard to predict with an episode this hot. For our “In the Vault” segment, Charles is channeling his adventurous spirit and talking about Raiders of the Lost Ark. Leo has righted a wrong and can finally discuss Kathryn Bigelow’s thrilling futuristic trip in Strange...

This week on Scene Stealers, Leo and Charles are stamp collectors. The movie is the Argentinian film Nine Queens. Charles opens up The Vault segment with his favorite “Dad movie” Draft Day. Leo goes beyond the grave with Tim Burton’s 1988 classic Beetlejuice. We are cracking the safe and talking about the 2000 caper Nine Queens, directed by Fabian Bielinsky. The fact is that nobody can be trusted...

Get in the car loser…We’re going on a heist! Give a listen to our new Archetype segment on Scene Stealers. Charles and Leo discuss who have been some of the best (and worst) drivers in heist movie history, ranking their top 5 in the category, and having a laugh on what makes a good driver in a heist. Give a listen and hold on for the ride!

Where ya goin Frank? We hit 30 episodes this week on Scene Stealers and we do it with a big hit- Steven Spielberg's 2002 classic Catch Me If You Can. For The Vault segment, Leo takes a journey with Julia Roberts in the film Eat Pray Love and Charles is talking about Ben Affleck's Best Picture winner Argo. For the main segment- Leo and Charles discuss just how great the caper and life of...

This week on Scene Stealers Charles and Leo are hitching a ride with the Barrow Gang! For the vault segment we keep it simple this week talking about a pair of movies on Netflix- The Bourne Legacy and You People. It’s a heavy hitter for the main take with Arthur Penn’s 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde- Nominated for 10-Oscars and winning 2. Leo and Charles discuss what made the bank robbing pair so special...

Entrapment is what cops do to thieves…and it’s also the movie we are talking about on Scene Stealers this week. Episode 28 is a lot of fun for Leo and Charles and they also celebrate 1-year of podcasting. In The Vault Leo withdraws Ben Affleck’s newest film Air and Charles sings praise for the always great My Cousin Vinny. The main event is 1999s Entrapment with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Conne...

This week on Scene Stealers it seems that being Bad is oh so good! Charles and Leo are discussing their first animated heist movie with The Bad Guys. The two movies coming out of the vault are bangers- Leo celebrates the 25th anniversary of 1998’s sweaty noire Wild Things and Charles is doing it all in one take for Sam Mendes’ 2019 Oscar winning WWI drama 1917. But this week’s episode is for the k...

Everyone gets a Bobby pin this week on Scene Stealers! This week’s episode is the Brett Ratner comedy Tower Heist. It has a big cast of actors like Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy but is it getting the coveted 5 bags of cash from Leo or Charles? In the vault Leo talks about Creed III and Charles shares his thoughts on The 40-Year-Old Virgin. It’s another solid gold week of movies at Scene Stealers!

This weeks episode of Scene Stealers is all about making good on movies we promised to watch. For the vault Leo has finally watched the Eddie Murphy & Martin Lawrence comedy Life and Charles is going into the multi-verse with Everything Everywhere All at Once. The safe is cracked wide open this week with Dead Presidents, directed by the Hughes brothers, set during the Viet Nam war, where Laren...

Nicolas Cage has done a lot of heist movies in his career and this week we get to our first one on Scene Stealers with 2016's The Trust. And this is Nicolas Cage giving all he's got. But the trip to The Vault is the first task, with Leo talking about Jet Li & Jason Statham facing off in 2007's War and Charles talking about 2022's deliciously wicked hit The Menu. The heist m...

We just Drive this week on Scene Stealers. In the Vault we have Leo talking about two massive titans fighting in Godzilla vs. Kong and Charles is drowning us out with Noah Baumbach’s newest film White Noise. The main feature is the ultra cool and collected Drive. Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2011 neon lit noire is giving Leo and Charles all kinds of night moves. Ryan Gosling is behind the wheel as a stu...

Don’t blink or you will miss a great episode of Scene Stealers. This week we are talking about the 2015 caper film Focus. In the Vault Leo is talking about The Quick & the Dead and Charles is talking about the all-time classic musical The Sound of Music. The main event is Focus- with Will Smith & Margot Robbie steaming up the windows and stealing your wallet when you’re not looking. It’s a...

Rififi means trouble and that’s what Leo & Charles are getting into this week on Scene Stealers. The movie we talk about this week is Jules Dassin’s 1955 classic- Rififi. For the Vault segment Leo is talking about the boxing flick Somebody Up There Likes Me and Charles pulls out the new Aubrey Plaza joint Emily the Criminal. But the main feature is Rififi and the two guys had to see why this h...

The Cops, the Fuzz, the rogue agent, the crooked officer, or the detective determined to get the criminal. There are always two sides to a heist- the criminals and the law trying to take them down. You can't talk about heist movies without having a love and appreciation for the men and women trying to foil a good caper and this special episode of Scene Stealers has Charles and Leo listing som...

HO! HO! Heistmas! A Merry Heistmas to everyone this week from Scene Stealers! Charles and Leo are in the holiday spirit, giving out 12-Gifts of Heistmas and we even get a special visit from Santa Claus. We pull a few Christmas movies out of the vault featuring the new sequel A Christmas Story Christmas and the Will Ferrell classic Elf. The big one this week is Violent Night. It's a 90's...

Oh baby! Scene Stealers is back and ready to ride. This week Leo and Charles are pumping the tunes and moving to the beat with Edgar Wright’s 2017 hit Baby Driver. In the Vault this week Leo is talking about the new director’s cut of the 1997 film Going All the Way. Charles brings Black Panther: Wakanda Forever out of his vault and celebrates the life of Chadwick Boseman. The main event is Baby Dr...

We are making it a Noir November on Scene Stealers, going back to talk about 1959’s Odds Against Tomorrow. The Vault is about vampires and high school football, with Leo talking about Joel Schumacher’s 1987 hit The Lost Boys and Charles is dancing in the end zone for 1999’s Varsity Blues. The safe is cracked wide open for a great discussion about Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow starring Harry...

We have a guest this week on Scene Stealers! Film critic Kevin Wozniak from KevFlix and fellow member of the Chicago Indie Critics joins Leo and Charles to talk about director Steven Soderbergh’s 2021 noir style hit No Sudden Move. It’s an episode filled to the brim. We open the vault and discover three very different movies- Leo talks about Roland Emmerich’s Universal Soldier, Kevin celebrates An...

It’s another exciting week on Scene Stealers because we are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Jackie Brown! Charles is keeping it in the Halloween spirit for his choice from the Vault with Hocus Pocus 2, while Leo talks about a fun night out with his mom watching 1952’s Singin’ in the Rain. As for cracking the safe, it’s a big take with one of Quentin Tarantino’s more under appreciated films- 19...

We are only bringing Sugar & Spice and all things nice on Scene Stealers. First off, The Vault segment has a mix of conversations with Leo talking about a night out with the family at the Alamo Drafthouse screening of The Lion King at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Charles is conflicted on Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter especially with his love of all thing’s poker. The safe is cracked wide open with...

We are hoping you feel the Wrath this week on Scene Stealers! We get back to business with a feeling of fall in the air. October is just around the corner; Leo opens his vault to talk about the classic horror movie Child's Play and Charles is on the loose talking about Tony Scott's Unstoppable. The main heist is the good stuff with Guy Ritchie's hardnosed film Wrath of Man, where Le...

We review every and any heist movie over at Scene Stealers…and that includes Money Plane! This week we are talking high stakes in the sky. The trip into The Vault has Leo talking about the recent mockumentary comedy Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. And Charles gets all romantic with 1999’s 10 Things I Hate About You. But the main event is a wild one, because we are talking about the 2020 low-budget...

The Grift is on this week on Scene Stealers. We open The Vault for something new and something groovy. Leo talks about Idris Elba vs. a lion in the ferocious new film Beast, while Charles takes out Roll Bounce and asks for a new evaluation on this guilty pleasure. But the Safe is Cracked for the main event- Stephen Frears wickedly deceptive caper from 1990- The Grifters- which is certainly a new k...

It's Ocean's Eleven for Episode Eleven! Scene Stealers is getting the whole gang together, Clooney, Pitt, Roberts, Cheadle, Damon, Gainey, and Brady. We go into the vault first to talk about 1989's Road House and Clint Eastwood's 2003 drama Mystic River. But when we Crack the Safe this week it's a big take with Steven Soderbergh's slick 2001 heist revision of Ocean&ap...

The "Guy in the chair", "the hacker", or "the wizard with technology", these are some of our favorite characters to see in a heist movie.  Today we are in Mission Control, dropping a special episode of Scene Stealers for the men and women doing the heist work behind the scenes.  Leo & Charles give their top 5 characters in the Tech/Gadget archetypes.