Articles for tag: Brian De Palma, Italian Mafia, Robert Deniro, Scorcese

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Top Ten Mafia Movies

It’s not easy to choose the top ten mafia movies, given how many films have been made about the subject. From Coppola’s The Godfather, usually ranked as one of the ten top movies of all time, mafia or not, to movies in recent years which have given us the good, bad and ugly of organized ...

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Tom Hardy as Bane: Physical Transformation as Psychopathology

“Captain America” may yet be a game-changer in the world of actor preparation, but so far 2012 seems to prove that the exception isn’t yet the rule. The media has been glutted with stories about actors bulking up or slimming down ranging from Anne Hathaway’s crash diet of hummus and radishes to Andrew Garfield channeling ...

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The Best Mob Movies Ever Made

For some reason, Americans are fascinated by gangsters. A large number of movies depicting crime families have been made over the years. Some of the finest movies ever made were gangster movies. Also, many famous actors have made a living by playing mob figures. Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, James Cagney, Joe Pesci and Marlon Brando ...

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The IMDB Top 100 – #3 The Godfather II

I started writing a short history for each of the Top 100 films on the American Film Institutes list, and then I realized that the AFI list is problematic for a few different reasons. It only represents the opinions of film critics, it stays within the boundaries of Hollywood and American born films, and it ...

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Top Ten Scary Water Movies

You never know what will come out of the water. This is why movies that involve water are so scary. It’s what lies beneath that makes the water setting so suspenseful and perfect for horror flicks. Think about it. The water can hide almost anything. Sharks can lurk underneath the surface. Huge snakes can be ...

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Book Review of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”

  The most incredible footnote to me concerning Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, written in 1818, is that she wrote the story when she was nineteen years old (what kind of nineteen-year old thinks like this)? Mary Shelley was by no means your ordinary teenager. She married poet Percy Blythe Shelly and hung out with intellectuals such ...