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🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On this episode of The Next Reel, Lance Taylor and Tyler Johns break down everything they watched over the weekend before revealing their picks for the best off-the-beaten-path organized crime movies you need to see. First, the guys review a wide range of recent watches, including The Killer, The Drama starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, The Warriors, The World’s End, Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, and Daredevil. Some are easy recommendations, some are divisive, and a few take the conversation in wild directions. Then the show shifts into a curated list of hidden gem crime movies, with Lance and Tyler each sharing their personal top 5 organized crime films that fall outside the usual mainstream picks like The Godfather and Goodfellas. The discussion features titles like Training Day, Menace II Society, Blow, Blood In, Blood Out, American History X, Carlito’s Way, In Bruges, Sorcerer, Charley Varrick, and State of Grace. If you love crime movie recommendations, gangster films, mob movies, cult classics, and discovering underrated films that deserve more attention, this is the episode for you. Topics covered in this video: 🎬 The best recent movie and TV watches 🎬 Tyler Johns’ latest recommendations 🎬 Lance Taylor’s weekend reviews 🎬 Off-the-beaten-path organized crime films 🎬 Hidden gem gangster and mob movies 🎬 Underrated crime movie rankings 🎬 Must-watch cult classics for film fans Subscribe for more movie discussions, rankings, reviews, and recommendation lists from The Next Reel. #UnderratedCrimeMovies #GangsterMovies #MobMovies #HiddenGemMovies #CrimeMovieRecommendations #BestCrimeMovies #CultClassicMovies #MovieTalk #TheNextReel #FilmRecommendations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome into another edition of The Next Real with Tyler Johns. I'm Lance Taylor. We talk movies,
0:04.5	entertainment shows all over the place, and we start first what we watched this past weekend.
0:11.1	So I only caught two movies over the weekend, believe it or not.
0:14.5	My God, what were you doing? Two movies is a Tuesday for you.
0:18.1	Yeah, I was doing a lot of sleeping and also watching the Daredevil
0:23.0	show. So I am watching stuff, but it's mainly been TV or my eyelids this past weekend.
0:30.2	Okay. By the way, I have been told by a lot of people that Daredevil is awesome. Yes. So
0:35.5	very violent. Yes, I think you would enjoy it.
0:38.8	Okay, I might have to check it out. So is it on Netflix or is it Disney? It's on Disney Plus.
0:43.2	Okay, okay. I've got that one too. Yep. First I saw the killer that we released over this
0:49.9	weekend from John Wu. It centers around this assassin who's disillusioned with the whole
0:57.1	contract killer life and he takes one last job. So that way he can pay for an eye surgery
1:03.0	for this woman who got injured from a previous job. It stars...
1:09.8	Sympathetic assassin, I like it.
1:11.6	Yeah, sympathetic assassin.
1:13.6	And John Wooz described it as about honor and friendship and trying to find out if there's
1:19.6	something common between two people who are polar opposites, because later on in the film,
1:25.6	the contract killer links up with a detective investigating
1:29.4	the triads.
1:30.7	The triads are after the contract killer and so they end up having a common enemy.
1:36.8	And this is just a brilliantly choreographed film.
1:41.2	All of the stunts and gunfights almost feel like dance choreography, like it's a ballet.
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