“Sometimes you gotta go for it” Ridley Scott’s Black Rain is one of his best and one of my favorite films of the late 80s. The films story involves an insane Yakuza boss named Sato who is trying to get his hands on two money printing platelets which when combined […]
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Bill Duke’s 1997 gangster drama HOODLUM starring Laurence Fishburne will be coming to BluRay from Olive Films on July 19th. BUY FROM AMAZON In 1930s Harlem, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson (Fishburne) has been released from Sing Sing prison and is back on the mean streets. In need of money he heads […]
“Sometimes, you just got to go for it.” Whenever people talk about Director Ridley Scott they always cite films like Alien and Blade Runner as being his best work. While I certainly agree with that, there is another film I would add to the list, his 1989 East Meets West […]
One of Director Brian DePalma’s seminal works is the 1987 gangster classic The Untouchables. The story, which is based on a book by Eliot Ness, follows the group of men he put together to take down the infamous mobster Al Capone and break his powerful grip on the city of […]
There’s been a lot of great films made about criminals of the Prohibition era from Scarface (1932) to The St Valentines Day Massacre (1967) to Once Upon a Time in America (1984). One of my favorites of the last 20 years is HOODLUM (1997) directed by Bill Duke. Film fans […]
Over the years many films have been made about the legendary gangster Al Capone such as Scarface (1932), Al Capone (1959), The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) and Capone (1975). Although Brian DePalma’s The Untouchables (1987) isn’t focused solely on Capone it is one of the best films featuring the […]