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Six Of The Best:The Directors – Michael Mann

Michael Mann

Although Michael Mann’s most recent project as director was the sadly cut short TV drama Luck, it is clearly and rightly as a feature film director that he is best known and most highly regarded. His first decade as a director was devoted to shorts, documentaries and TV and although he remained committed to none-more-80′s [...]




Blaze of Glory: The Fantastic Lure of the 90s Crime Film

L.A. Confidential

When I think back to the first time I truly fell in love with movies, it was while watching GOODFELLAS at twelve years old. It was my first encounter with Scorsese, DeNiro, Pesci and abundant violence. It was like a wake up call (I know at 12 years old that seems hyperbolic, but compared to [...]




Braquo Season One DVD Review

Braquo

The recent spate of powerful euro-centric police procedurals to crop up on both terrestrial TV and Sky have managed to gain the approval of critics and audiences alike. One of these celebrated shows proudly wears its US influences on its sleeve while managing to retain that dark and sobering tone found in neighbouring programmes such [...]




Contraband Review

Film Title: Contraband

What do you get when production company Working Title teams up with the director of the gentle, understated Icelandic comedy 101 Reykjavík? The answer is (somewhat surprisingly) pulpy, action-drama remake, Contraband. Mark Wahlberg is Chris Farraday, a once world-class smuggler who has now gone legit and lives a peaceful existence with his wife Kate (Kate [...]




Peter Morgan Talks Bond And A New Heist-Film Script

Peter Morgan

Peter Morgan has an impressive CV as a writer. The Deal, The Queen, Frost/Nixon, Hereafter, The Other Boleyn Girl, Longford, The Last King of Scotland, very strong work all round. It turns out he put in some of the ground work on the next Bond film, having worked on a treatment which, due to the [...]




Michael Mann and Dustin Hoffman try Their ‘Luck’ on TV

Luck

Following Martin Scorsese’s successful dalliance with the small screen, not one but two legendary figures from cinema are involved in the new HBO horseracing drama, Luck. The preview below of the series (which is due late 2011/early 2012) boasts the starry presence of Dustin Hoffman in the cast, with Heat/The Insider auteur Michael Mann onboard [...]




De Niro and Pacino Together Again for Scorsese (with Pesci)?

Casino Heat

Here’s a potentially mouth-watering piece of casting news. Deadline are reporting that Al Pacino and Joe Pesci are interested in joining the cast of a mob drama called The Irishman, which Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro have both been developing for a while. It’s based on the life of Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, a [...]




HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project – Week 4

Spirited Away

The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films, as ranked by the users of the biggest movie Internet site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of The Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie masses, [...]