RAVE - A Most Violent Year

Set in New York, 1981 - a year that by all accounts was one of the most violent years in history - Oscar Isaac plays a Latino immigrant who has developed his heating oil company to the point where he's being targeted by his competitors and the law alike.

While the means of targeting do involve highjacking his oil trucks, and wielding the odd pistol or two, this isn't a particularly violent film, and its title is somewhat irrelevant to the movie and the excellent story that's told.

I'm also unsure why so many movies set in the 70s and 80s have to be shot through a grey lens. It's true that graphics were only 8-bit during the 80s, but I distinctly remember the sun shining, even in England.

Be that as it may, this was a very solid film more than making up for an audience in the tiny Opera Plaza Theater who must've brought along a couple of horses to eat from paper bags - YOU BLOODY NOISY LOT!!!!