WE HAVE A SOFT SPOT FOR FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT LIKE SCARFACE AND GOODFELLAS, but when it comes to pure shmaltz, American Gangster takes the cake.
The “true” story chronicles Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington). a heroin dealer who adopts the financial wizardry of his Italian mafia peers to run the Harlemites working under him, and Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe, his arm still aching from throwing telephones at concierges), a cop whose honesty makes him a pariah within the corrupt police community. Even with [...]
Posted in Books/Films/Media, The City on November 15th, 2007 | 
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Call us naive, but we are a teensy shocked that the three statuettes Dreamgirls won at last night’s Golden Globes were not hooted off the stage. While we were eternally grateful to the foreign journalists who last year bestowed a Golden Globe on Sandra Oh, the object of all our love for ever and ever and ever and ever and ever, we are convinced that this year they were smoking serious crack.
While Dreamgirls has its moments–Eddie Murphy everytime he’s on [...]
Posted in Books/Films/Media, The City on January 16th, 2007 | No Comments »
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To: Leo DiCaprio
From: Recharger The Dog
Re: Blood Diamond.
Dear Leo:
Saw your film, “Blood Diamond.” You recall that after The Aviator, we said you looked like a 12-year-old with a fake mustache, and that your naked scene in the room with the milk bottles was as believable as Ronald Reagan without legs. We take it back. A little. “Blood Diamond” isn’t more realistic, but the story is more important—how illegal diamonds, with the complicity of diamond syndicate DeBeers, helped Sierra Leone warlords [...]
Posted in Books/Films/Media, The City on December 15th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Watching cult favorite director Wong Kar Wai film “My Blueberry Nights,” — his first American movie — on the streets of Soho last week, got us thinking again about how different Movie New York is from real life New York. We recall, for example, couple years back, the groan that erupted from the audience when Jack Lemmon, in The Apartment, casually mentions his Central Park West rent (something like $85 per month). This also got us thinking about other [...]
Posted in Books/Films/Media on September 28th, 2006 | No Comments »
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