Scott Tobias introduces Miami Blues

Some of the most compelling and entertaining film commentary of the moment is coming out of The Onion’s A.V. Club, online and in print. Film editor Scott Tobias has been contributing to the A.V. Club for more than a decade and also freelances for NPR.org and such publications as Time Out New York, the Hollywood Reporter, the Village Voice, and the Nashville Scene.

Tobias has selected Miami Blues (1990), a film he's spotlighted in his popular New Cult Canon column, for this installment of our occasional series of critics visiting to introduce and discuss films of their choice. This ripe-for-rediscovery crime thriller stars a young, hunky Alec Baldwin as a psychopathic ex-con who matches wits with a wily Miami cop, played by Fred Ward, and connects with a hopeful, newly retired prostitute (a scene-stealing Jennifer Jason Leigh).

Miami Blues Trailer