Tag: The Insider
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Penélope Cruz’s Ferocious ‘Ferrari’ Performance Revs Up Oscar Prospects For Michael Mann’s Latest
Among all working U.S. filmmakers, few have built as faithful and fervent a following of critics and cinephiles as Michael Mann. Mann’s acolytes have secured such sleekly hard-boiled genre works as “Thief” and “Heat” a permanent place in the American canon, while staunchly advocating for the merits of more divisive titles like “Blackhat” and “Miami…
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Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’ Was Made Without Major Studio Ties, Here’s Why
One of the most-anticipated films of award season, Michael Mann’s long-in-the-works passion project Ferrari has a lot working for it — an Academy Award-nominated director behind the camera in Mann who’s helmed classics like Heat and The Insider, a starry cast featuring award-winning actors Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz, and an intriguing story of a…
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Al Pacino’s Standout Any Given Sunday Speech Was Deeply Personal To Oliver Stone
Al Pacino chewed some delicious scenery in the late 1990s. Twice at Michael Mann’s direction, he excelled as a hard-nosed investigator (Detective Vincent Hanna in “Heat” then journalist Lowell Bergman in “The Insider“). He stole the show from his younger co-stars both in “Donnie Brasco” and “Devil’s Advocate,” proving youth can’t compare with sheer talent.Pacino’s…
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‘Tokyo Vice’: Everything to Know About the HBO Max Drama
It has been seven years since Michael Mann, acclaimed director of “Heat” and “The Insider,” last directed something and soon audiences will get an opportunity to see what he’s been up to. “Tokyo Vice” has been a series long in development, with initial reports stating that “Harry Potter” lead Daniel Radcliffe would be starring in…
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Dune Screenwriter Eric Roth Talks About His Scrapped Opening To The Movie
Adapting Frank Herbert’s sprawling sci-fi saga, “Dune,” is nothing short of a Herculean task, and Denis Villeneuve succeeded in doing the same with the help of screenwriter Eric Roth. Roth is a major player in the screenwriting arena, having adapted numerous books for the screen, including “Forrest Gump,” “The Insider,” and “Munich.” In a recent…
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The Best Movies Streaming Right Now: ‘The Insider’, ‘One Hour Photo’, ‘Cutter’s Way’, ‘The Boy Behind the Door’, ‘Untold: Malice at the Palace’
(Welcome to Now Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.) I have some news! Now Stream This is going weekly. That’s right — rather than once or twice a month, you’ll now get streaming recommendations every week, just in time for…
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‘The Oxy Kingpins’ Review: A Muckraking Documentary Reveals How the Scandal of the Opioid Crisis Really Worked
“The Oxy Kingpins” is a documentary that feels like it could be a Martin Scorsese movie. It’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” meets “The Insider” — the story of a scurrilous illegal business, and one of the hotshot thrill junkies who rode it to riches, and how that business connects up to a much larger…
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Russell Crowe Starring in Road-Rage Thriller ‘Unhinged’
In a pre-Cannes Film Festival signing, Russell Crowe has come on board “Unhinged,” a psychological road rage thriller which will start production July 15 in New Orleans.Rights to the film, which is the first Solstice Studios movie to go into production, will go on sale next week at the Cannes Film Festival.“Unhinged” is directed by…