Titles are important. Take the action/thriller Snakes on a Plane. Screenwriter David Dalessandro shopped his screenplay Venom for five years before a big production house took a serious look. But it wasn’t until more seasoned writers Sebastian Gutierrez and John Heffernan renamed it that the ball really got rolling. Here’s what Samuel L. Jackson said […]
A lot of crime historians and criminals dispute Frank Sheeran’s version of the events surrounding the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. They say he’s full of it…That he’s a wanna be gangster at best. Be that as it may, I think he tells the truth about a lot of it. Not that I’m an expert on […]
There are some police officers who become cops because they want to protect and to serve. Probably not too many, but there are a few. I’ve never, personally, known a cop like that, but I’ve heard of them. On the news. And I’ve read about them… I knew a cop, once…Well, I knew him before […]
In the male prison subculture there is a stark difference between the convicts and the inmates. Convicts are criminals, not by happenstance but by design. Crime is their career. Hence they occupy the upper tiers of the prison yard pyramid. They are the mob connected conspirators, bank robbers, drug dealers, counterfeiters and contract killers. At […]
We get older; we get wiser. That’s how the old adage goes, and I believe it. For the most part. Sometimes we get lonelier too–because we are alone. And because we know why. This is the juncture where Sydney (the awesome Philip Baker Hall), an aging professional gambler (I’d say he’s mid-sixties, at least) resides […]
Back in the early days of the millennium when everybody was in love with quirk, Panic was the indie darling that all the critics were hot and bothered about. Since I consider myself a reasonably discerning moviegoer, I attempted to give it a go. I had to bail out. I didn’t get it. The other night […]
Okay, so this is for the film people. Movie people? You have to leave the room. Now movie people, don’t get all bent out of shape. I’m not saying that you’re not sophisticated enough. I’m certainly not saying that you’re not smart enough. Not at all. What I am saying is… If you stick […]
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