Widows (2018)

BODY & SOUL month has given us a week of worthy modern noir and today is no exception in this discussion of British director Steve McQueen’s web of Chicago crime and politics. Three women are forced to pay back some money stolen by their husbands in a heist that led to them, and the money, going up in flames. The blackmail leads to them picking up where their men left off and plotting a heist that one’s husband mostly already laid out. They just gotta figure out where this money is before a month is done or they could be in the ground next to their husbands. That’s just one layer to all this wicked mess and the reveals go heavy in McQueen’s 2018 heist noir “WIDOWS” starring Viola Davis and quite an extensive ensemble that includes Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Robert Duvall, Lucas Haas and even more. Hear us talk of this crime film that stands out quite nicely from the last ten years. Not one loaded hot dog or gooey slice of stuffed pizza in this whole Chi-Town joint but we do get a mention that the Bears won the Super Bowl in 1985. A requirement for any Chicago film set after that point. Walter Peyton. Solid guy. RIP.

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