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The crime film is one of the greatest genres to provide audiences with a mainline to adrenaline charged action drama and emotion. If you don’t go for all the fantasy CGI and 3D cinema, Ruben Fleischer’s upcoming old school cops vs. criminals film Gangster Squad (the title even sounds like a pulp novel) might be for you. It looks like a throwback to classics we love like Once Upon a [read...] 
Our latest analytical article looks at two films by David Fincher and compares and contrasts themes and characters that connect the movies. “The game is tailored specifically to each participant. Think of it as a great vacation, except you don’t go to it, it comes to you.” In the 1997 psychological thriller The Game Michael Douglas stars as Nicholas Van Orton a millionaire book publisher that has all but lost [read...] 
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen. I am here to day to write to you about a movie that is held very highly among many movie geeks, but for some reason I can’t help but loving the original so much more, especially (but not exclusively) because hardly anyone has ever heard of it. Any movie that has Sean Penn fucking (excuse my French, but this ain’t Disneyland) Jennifer Lopez (back when she [read...] If you’ve got a halfway decent taste in movies, then the name Terrence Malick will ring a bell. It’s not one of those super-busy actors who make a popcorn movie every other year. He’s more like Thomas Pynchon, lives in seclusion, makes a hit every once in a while, and dives out again. But look at this man’s filmography and one might of course wish he was more busy. Here’s [read...] Listen to “Rock The Boat” by The Hues Corporation (featured in the film). 10 years after working together on the crime classic Scarface (1983), Brian DePalma and Al Pacino reunited for another crime film/character study called Carlito’s Way (1993). Where Scarface ended, Carlito’s Way begins. The main difference between the characters of Tony Montana and Carlito Brigante is the attitude the characters have towards their lives. Tony Montana wanted [read...] My first encounter with the late writer Charles Bukowski’s work wasn’t through his literature, it was from watching the film Barfly (1987). It was directed by Barbet Shroeder and starred Mickey Rourke (Sin City) as Bukowski’s alter-ego, Henry Chinaski. Right away, it sucked me in as the opening credits rolled while Booker T and The MGs’ “Hip-Hug-Her” played. I got to find out about Bukowski’s dirty, violent and often [read...] |
   
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