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Tag Archives: Public Enemies
Couch Potato Pickings | Changeling – are true crime movies more powerful than fictional ones?
If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it’s missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. It is of course difficult to say whether true crime movies are … Continue reading
At the Cinema | A Prophet – French prison drama is the new crime movie kingpin
French director Jacques Audiard’s gripping prison drama A Prophet is a further sign that European cinema is currently giving Hollywood a hiding when it comes to making exciting and intelligent crime movies. In the last year or so, Italian Mafia … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Releases, The Best View
Tagged A Prophet, Gomorrah, Jacques Audiard, Mafia, Mesrine, Michael Mann, Niels Arestrup, prison movie, Public Enemies, Tahar Rahim
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Out on DVD | Public Enemies – Johnny Depp’s charismatic 1930s outlaw steals Michael Mann’s gangster biopic
Michael Mann has produced some of Hollywood’s finest thrillers of the past couple of decades – just think back to Manhunter and Heat – but his gangster biopic Public Enemies doesn’t find him at the top of his game. The … Continue reading
Couch Potato Paradox: Movies you have to see on the big screen
Well, it seems that my recent post about the benefits of a local cinema hit a nerve with many of you, judging by your many comments. Clearly, I’m not the only one longing for a picturehouse in close proximity to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alec Guinness, Alien, Andie MacDowell, Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Perkins, Ben-Hur, Bolt, cinema for Crystal Palace, Daniel Radcliffe, Elijah Wood, Gone With the Wind, Hugh Grant, Independence Day, Johnny Depp, Journey to the Centre of the Earth in 3D, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Lawrence of Arabia, local cinemas, Mamma Mia, Meryl Streep, Peter O'Toole, picture palace, Picturehouse Cinemas, Public Enemies, Renee Zellweger, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, The Blair Witch Project, The Day After Tomorrow, The Fall, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the sound of music, The Wizard of Oz
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The Best view | Public Enemies – Johnny Depp gives Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger a dangerous glamour
Michael Mann clearly thinks crooks are cool. Look at the evidence on screen: in film after film he’s drawn to bandits and outlaws, felons and fugitives, hoods and heavies. Like a hopeless recidivist, he just can’t keep away from crime. … Continue reading
