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Heroes of the Zeroes: Layer Cake
Heroes of the Zeroes is Nick Rogers’ daily, alphabetical look back at the 365 best films of 2000-2009. “Layer Cake” Rated R 2004 Guy Ritchie’s freewheeling crime comedies often skate by on a cool...
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Movies You Aught Not Watch: The Ice Harvest
Movies You Aught Not Watch is Nick Rogers’ weekly, alphabetical look back at the 52 worst films of 2000-2009. “The Ice Harvest” Rated R 2005 “As Wichita falls, so falls Wichita Falls” reads the...
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Heroes of the Zeroes: Public Enemies
Heroes of the Zeroes is Nick Rogers’ daily, alphabetical look back at the 365 best films of 2000-2009. “Public Enemies” Rated R 2009 Regardless of aesthetic, period or budget, Michael Mann now shoots...
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Heroes of the Zeroes: Sexy Beast
Heroes of the Zeroes is Nick Rogers’ daily, alphabetical look back at the 365 best films of 2000-2009. “Sexy Beast” Rated R 2001 Don Logan can instill the fear of God with a phone call announcing his...
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Animal Kingdom
There are feature-length directorial debuts of pleasant, cordial introduction. Then there are blindsiding handshakes of death-grip intensity — remarkably assured, assertive first impressions left by...
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Bob Hoskins: His Notable Roles
Bob Hoskins — one of Britain’s most distinctive and recognisable actors — has retired recently due to an ongoing battle with Parkinson’s disease. Known for his hard-man portrayals in a few top-quality...
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Lawless
Based on the 2008 novel “The Wettest County in the World,” “Lawless” is the true story of the Bondurant brothers’ rise to bootlegging infamy during the Prohibition Era. The book was penned by Matt...
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Killing Them Softly
“Killing Them Softly” is a stylishly scuzzy, socioeconomic slog through the sludgy lives of hoods living in a gutted, gray, overgrown New Orleans. They’re not low-level criminals. They’re sewer-level....
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Gangster Squad
Midway through “Gangster Squad,” Jack Dragna (Jon Polito) lets up-and-coming fellow mobster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) just what he thinks of him: “I’ve seen your kind before. Think they can shoot their...
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Gangster Squad
“It’s a kid’s game,” one character utters early in “Gangster Squad.” How telling, that throwaway line, about this purely cartoony concoction, which aspires to ape only the pretty fashions of “L.A....
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INDIANAPOLIS! Win Passes to “The Family”
INDIANAPOLIS! Win passes to a special advance screening of “The Family,” starring Robert DeNiro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones, Wednesday, September 11! To enter: 1) Go to The Film Yap...
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The Family
Sometimes a movie just doesn’t know what it wants to be. “The Family” is one such film. “The Family” follows a family of mob snitches in witness protection and meanders, carrying a lighthearted air...
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Class of 1993: “Carlito’s Way”
In the “Class of …” series, Nick Rogers takes a monthly look back at films celebrating either their 20th or 30th anniversary of initial release this year — six from 1993 and six from 1983. The rules:...
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Class of 1983: “Scarface”
In the “Class of …” series, Nick Rogers takes a monthly look back at films celebrating either their 20th or 30th anniversary of initial release this year — six from 1993 and six from 1983. The rules:...
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Overall I enjoyed the movie. Although I agree with the review. I think there could have been more action in this movie at times it seemed to be a little dull. I did enjoy Sean Penn and Ryan Gosling’s...
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Animal Kingdom
There are feature-length directorial debuts of pleasant, cordial introduction. Then there are blindsiding handshakes of death-grip intensity — remarkably assured, assertive first impressions left by...
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Bob Hoskins: His Notable Roles
Bob Hoskins — one of Britain’s most distinctive and recognisable actors — has retired recently due to an ongoing battle with Parkinson’s disease. Known for his hard-man portrayals in a few top-quality...
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Lawless
Based on the 2008 novel “The Wettest County in the World,” “Lawless” is the true story of the Bondurant brothers’ rise to bootlegging infamy during the Prohibition Era. The book was penned by Matt...
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Killing Them Softly
“Killing Them Softly” is a stylishly scuzzy, socioeconomic slog through the sludgy lives of hoods living in a gutted, gray, overgrown New Orleans. They’re not low-level criminals. They’re sewer-level....
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Gangster Squad
Midway through “Gangster Squad,” Jack Dragna (Jon Polito) lets up-and-coming fellow mobster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) just what he thinks of him: “I’ve seen your kind before. Think they can shoot their...
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