“Just sayin’ could get you buried real quick.” Is Johnny Depp back? We think he’s back. In BLACK MASS, Directed by Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnace) Depp stars as the infamous Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger who just a couple of years ago was captured after decades of being […]
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“Mumbo Jumbo! Mumbo Jumbo!” In 1999 Director Roman Polanski returned to familiar territory with the devilishly entertaining supernatural mystery-thriller The Ninth Gate. Johnny Depp plays Dean Corso a rare book dealer who is in the business primarily to make big money and use his expertise to scam clients that don’t […]
Mike Newell’s 1997 mob classic Donnie Brasco is based on the true story of FBI agent Joe Pistone, a man who went undercover into the New York City mafia to help get evidence to indite members of the organization. Even though Newell wasn’t a veteran of crime cinema compared to […]
“This town needs an enema!” – Jack Nicholson as The Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman If you’re a film geek it’s sometimes tough to sit and watch the machine of moviemaking in Hollywood burp out one lousy film after another. It’s not that we want to complain, but it just […]
The late director Ted Demme’s final film turned out to be his best. It was a spectacular work of crime cinema based on the true story of George Jung, an infamous cocaine smuggler who rose to prominence in the 1970s and 80s. We are introduced to George in his childhood […]
In one of the early scenes of Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, the critically acclaimed “worst director of all time” (Johnny Depp) is in his office making a phonecall, behind him on the wall are two posters. One is for Citizen Kane, the other: Dracula. This detail clues us into Wood’s […]
When it comes to furious flix, Terry Gilliam’s 1998 fantasy-adventure-comedy based on the legendary book by the late Hunter S. Thompson, ranks up with the very best. A visually thrilling work of pop cinema that’s filled with SFX, Fear and Loathing injects us into the phantasmic mind of Thompson’s alter-ego, […]