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LIVE BY NIGHT

January 13, 2017 By Leave a Comment

LIVE BY NIGHT

LIVE BY NIGHT is so sumptuously photographed that it can almost make up for its shortcomings.  Based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, it has weathered its translation by becoming a slight story heinously overblown. It also suffers from too many false endings.  So many, in fact, that I can’t vouch… Read More »

Tagged With: bootleggers, Boston, Cuba, Florida, gang warfare, gangsters, mob, molasses, Roaring Twenties, romance, rum

BLACK MASS

November 14, 2015 By Leave a Comment

BLACK MASS

It is only the smallest of exaggerations to say that there are only two types of scenes in BLACK MASS. One is of James “Whitey” Bulger either having someone executed with a vicious precision, or doing the dastardly deed himself. The other is an assemblage of characters having an extended conversation about what has happened… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen. Winter Hill Gang, Boston, FBI, Mafia, murder

THE DEPARTED

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE DEPARTED

With THE DEPARTED, Martin Scorsese has taken a good film, the Hong Kong minor classic INFERNAL AFFAIRS, and remade it into a movie that is as bloated as it is bland. Gone is the dramatic tension of a slick action flick, gone is the suspenseful psychological subtext that pondered the nature of identity, subsumed into… Read More »

Tagged With: Boston, corruption, crime, mob, mole, police

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