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James Cagney is brilliant as psychotic, epileptic gangster Cody Jarrett, fixated on his conniving mother Ma Jarrett (Margaret Wycherly), in the awesome 1949 gangster film White Heat. A perfectly cast James Cagney is brilliant as […]
With Joel directing, Ethan producing and both of them writing, the Coen Brothers’ edge-of-seat Mob thriller is scarily dynamic, urgently propelled and spectacularly stylish. Stylised and jokey near to the point of parody, it stops […]
‘The world is yours.’ Director Brian De Palma’s 1983 all-stops-out remake of Howard Hawks’s 1932 classic gangster thriller Scarface with Paul Muni is now a classic in its own right. Al Pacino appears in one […]
Michael Corleone: ‘Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.’ Quibbles apart, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1990 crime film The Godfather: Part III is a worthy successor to his first two films. There […]
‘Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.’ Francis Ford Coppola’s awesome six-Oscar-winning Mafia movie The Godfather: Part II is a more than worthy successor to his 1972 original. ‘Keep your friends close and your […]
Francis Ford Coppola summed it up: ‘Whatever immortality The Godfather films achieve is due to the great acting and Mario Puzo’s writing.’ Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall were all Oscar nominated as Best […]