Marty is at it again, this time with Bostonian Irish mobsters in The Departed.
While not quite as powerful as The One Ring wielded by the Nordic Princess of the South Lands, the new ring I shall bear in a little over 80 days has its own unique charms and mysteries.
Here are a series of reviews I started as a bit of a challenge. The idea was to write the entire review in ten (hence, “decuple”) words or less. I considered the movie title to count as only one word. Oh, and sometimes I had to get clever with hyphenated words to keep [...]
It’s been a long time since a movie scene made me honestly cringe under my collar out of anxiety.
Leave it to comic books and American noir to spark an international dialog.
The difference between these films is like the difference between mere artistic license and historical revisionism: pageantry and fraud.
If anyone can make 70s Italian splatter movies mainstream, Hopkins can.
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Date: 05/26/2006
