This August has turned into New York City at the movies month, thanks first to Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest and now to Caught Stealing, an adaptation of Charlie Huston’s novel that taps into a live-wire Lower East Side vein.
Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky’s film, in theaters August 29, is a feast of metropolitan sights and sounds circa 1998, from Queens’ Shea Stadium and Coney Island’s Nathan’s Famous to downtown’s incomparable and beloved Kim’s Video, all of which galvanize this breakneck crime saga about a former baseball phenom who winds up knee-deep in illicit trouble. It doesn’t totally work, but it has a lot of fun trying.
<video id="LRPaMQe9" poster="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/LRPaMQe9/poster.jpg"><source src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/LRPaMQe9.mp4" type="video/mp4"></source></video>The post Austin Butler Is a Grungy Force of Nature in ‘Caught Stealing’ appeared first on The Daily Beast