Posts Tagged ‘Al Pacino’
Film Review – Knox Goes Away
The title of Knox Goes Away (2024) contains a double meaning. The first involves an aging contract killer – John Knox (Michael Keaton) – realizing that he is near the end of his time “in the game.” Long term employment is not a standard expectation in his…
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Episode 91 – House of Gucci
For this episode, we review Ridley Scott‘s lurid biopic, House of Gucci, starring Adam Driver and Lady Gaga. We also compare other musicians who became actors and rank them on our own special scale. For the streaming homework, we review the 2012 Tom Cruise action…
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Film Review – The Many Saints of Newark
Fourteen years after The Sopranos ended its legendary run on television, writer/creator David Chase returns to the world of the New Jersey mob with The Many Saints of Newark (2021). Cowritten by Chase and Lawrence Konner – with long time Sopranos director Alan Taylor at…
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Film Review – The Trip to Greece
Who would’ve thought that a story about two middle aged friends going on a food tour around beautiful European locations would spawn a franchise? And yet here we are, returning again to watch Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan play fictional versions of themselves, bickering and…
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Episode 31 – 1917, Little Women, and The Irishman
Keith and Cassidy are back to wrap up the final releases of 2019. In this episode of the podcast, we review the world war epic 1917, Greta Gerwig‘s adaptation of the literary classic Little Woman, and we finally tackle the latest Scorsese film, The Irishman.…
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Top 15 Films of 2019 – Allen’s Picks
2019 was such an excellent year in film that I seriously debated pushing this list out to 25, maybe even 30 entries. There was such an abundance of quality work that whittling it down to a small grouping is about the equivalent of a parent…
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Film Review – The Irishman
The Irishman (2019) is three and half hours long. It could have been five hours and I would have been just as riveted. Martin Scorsese has delivered yet another masterwork. He dives back into the world he has visited before, where gangsters operate outside the…
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Film Review – Den of Thieves
Somewhere between a frat party and the take-down of an armored car lies this age-old tale of cops and robbers. A testosterone fueled cocktail of bravado and automatics, Den of Thieves is treading in awfully familiar territory. Though instead of being the bug it may…
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