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We truly live in the era of reboots and remakes, as classic gangster flick Scarface will soon be revamped for modern audiences, if all goes according to plan.
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The Departed marked director Martin Scorsese's return to modern - day gangster movies after an eleven year break, and while it possesses the brutality and violent tension of earlier classics such as GoodFellas (1990) and Casino (1995), it also differed from his previous explorations of the gangster life by following a more linear narrative and eschewing a spoken narration.
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As in Melville's brooding gangster classic, Mamet's film focuses on a lonely, figurative samurai devoted to a governing code, in this case a jiu - jitsu instructor named Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who runs a Los Angeles martial arts academy where he trains both lay people and cops.
Lee Valmassy has a lot of fun letting loose as the gleefully farcical villain (a mohawked, golden - grilled gangster who only wears jumpsuits), and Art Hsu turns in a scene - stealing performance as the hero's duck - loving sidekick, but while fans of bad movies might appreciate what «The FP» has to offer, it's not exactly the ready - made cult classic that it's so desperately trying to be.
The Climber (Arrow Video) is a gangster film in the tradition of such classics as The Public Enemy and Scarface that chronicles the rise and inevitable fall of small - time smuggler Aldo (Joe Dallesandro).
The special features are not as impressive as the «Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics» release since these films have been released on Blu - ray prior and are missing quite a bit of there previously released extras.
Not only does Gangster Squad pay cartoonish tribute to these films in style and content, but it also tips its fedora at classic films from the era, such as Billy Wilder's non-B-grade masterpiece Sunset Blvd. (1950), with direct visual references.
As I mentioned in my review of «Gangster Squad» last week, the screenplay was plainly built around classic Western conventions — one Western film in particular.
1:30 m (3rd)-- TCM — Angels With Dirty Faces One of the classic gangster pictures has James Cagney as a criminal idolized by the youth of Hell's Kitchen and Pat O'Brien as Cagney's boyhood buddy who grew up to be a priest.
8:15 am — TCM — Angels With Dirty Faces One of the classic gangster pictures has James Cagney as a criminal idolized by the youth of Hell's Kitchen and Pat O'Brien as Cagney's boyhood buddy who grew up to be a priest.
As he struggles to regain any sense of normalcy, the dog and fond memories of his marriage give Wick some hope for the future, but it proves short - lived when he's antagonized by petulant young gangster Iosef (Alfie Allen), who tries to intimidate Wick into selling his classic 1969 black Mustang.
Suzuki, whose low - budget Japanese gangster films later became regarded as cult classics and inspired American directors such as Quentin Tarantino...
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She won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role as gangster Edward G. Robinson's moll in the classic «Key Largo» (1948, John Huston).
His appetite for old cars, however, might be outmatched by his love for restoring classic yachts such as the 136» Motor Yacht Acania, built in 1930 and once owned by notorious gangster Al Capone.