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Luck – Season 1 DVD Review

Luck

Chester “Ace” Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) emerges from prison, having served a stretch for offences that this intricately plotted drama takes its time to elucidate. He is collected by his long-term companion, driver and confidante Gus (Dennis Farina) and straight away starts to work towards a grand plan of revenge on the men who each had [...]




It’s All Quiet on the Western Front for Director Mimi Leder

Mimi Leder

All is very much busy on the remake front with news from Deadline that director Mimi Leder has chosen her next big budget project – a new adaptation of famed World War One novel, All Quiet on the Western Front. The story (which was turned into a 1930 Oscar-winning film, and remade again as a [...]




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 [...]




Big Tuna Will Mark the Return of Michael Mann to Cinema Screens

Michael Mann

Michael Mann seems to have settled on his next cinema feature, having chosen one of the possible projects he’s had in development for the last few months. He will be tackling the crime story Big Tuna, which is a biopic of Chicago mob boss Tony Accardo and his protégé who eventually replaced him, Sam Giancana. Mann [...]




Michael Mann Might Get Mediaeval with Agincourt, Or Get Criminal with Big Tuna

Though Michael Mann’s recent Public Enemies didn’t light fires at the box office it was an enjoyable period piece with Johnny Depp and Marion Cotillard doing a lot of the hard work. We reported back in July that Sky were to bring many of HBO’s series to the UK, and this included Luck, which had [...]