I know I haven’t been ’round these parts too much lately – life, once again, has a way of making even my beloved blogging take a back seat in another car, speeding away on a rural road in the next county over – but Public Enemies is a Michael Mann film. With Depp and Bale. [...]

Leave it to my blog-pal Piper to roust me out of the too-much-working, non-blogging malaise I’ve been experiencing lately by tagging me with one of his ever-loving movie memes. What a rascal!
In Lazy Eye Theatre’s 12 Movies Meme, Piper challenges me and a handful of others to program two weeks’ worth of movies if we [...]

There’s not much I can add to Michael Mann’s excellent Miami Vice comments shared below and excerpted from this article at SFGate.com. It’s just really gratifying to see a director take his material seriously rather than go the Dukes, Starsky or Charlie’s Angels routes.
And I think I’ve got a reasonable answer why Mann chose to [...]

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