Posts Tagged ‘Heat’
Oscar Week Movie of the Day | Training Day
With the 83rd Annual Academy Awards quickly approaching, I will be offering Filmdog’s Oscar countdown by recommending a film every day of the week up until the awards this Sunday. All of the film recommendations will be Academy Award winning movies from various categories. So, watch some great films and enjoy the Academy Awards this Sunday.
Friday’s Oscar winning film is Antoine Fuqua’s cop drama masterpiece, Training Day. Read the rest of this entry »
Score Your Week | Miami Vice
Michael Mann’s Miami Vice (2006) is a film I am not ashamed to say I love. Although it is not on the level of Heat, The Insider, or The Last of the Mohicans; Miami Vice is in a lot of ways the perfect Hollywood cop drama. It establishes great characters (cliched as they are) and a great sense of time, tone, and place.
Mann always has unique musical choices that perfectly fit the character’s plight. From Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman‘s score for The Last of the Mohicans or Moby‘s Heat anthem “God Moving On the Face of the Waters”, Mann has an ear for music that elevates the story. Read the rest of this entry »
Either You Got Heat or You Don’t | Review of “The Town”
Ben Affleck’s The Town may be the most visceral and emotionally charged film I have seen so far this year. As Affleck slides behind the camera for a second time, he crafts a film that proudly wears it’s Boston identity. From the streets littered with stories, to the aerial shots of buildings concealing secrets, Ben Affleck treats Charlestown as both a breeding ground for crime and a town with rich history. But most importantly, he creates characters so conflicted and engaging you will not want to leave your seat when it ends. Read the rest of this entry »
The Town | Film Clip
Of all the potentially great films premiering this fall, Ben Affleck’s sophomore film as a director, The Town, is easily the one that appeals to me the most. The trailer showcases a great sense of urgency for the ticking clock romance between Ben Affleck and Rebecca Hall, and also calls back to some really great films (Heat, At Close Range). Yahoo movies recently put up a clip of the film and though it doesn’t show much, it does offer a little insight into Affleck and Jeremy Renner’s crew. The clip also offers a look at the great Boston flavored dialogue. Check it out below or continue on to check out the amazing trailer.
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Scene Stealer | The Dark Knight – Interrogation Scene
Christian Bale and Heath Ledger in 2008's "The Dark Knight"
Scene Stealer is new column that will be bringing you a classic, iconic, or just plain awesome movie scene as often as possible. Since Christoper Nolan’s much anticipated film Inception is released this Friday I figured his filmography would be a good place to start. However, most of the iconic scenes in Nolan’s pictures involve heavy spoilers due the plot twists in those stories. So, I had somewhat of a hard time picking today’s first showcase.
The natural solution was as clear as day in the end though. While Memento may be Nolan’s most individual work The Dark Knight is his most successful. Not only because of the classic characters, but the pathos in which they were written, preformed, and directed. Therefore, what scene in the film is the both the centerpiece of the story and the culmination of both Batman and The Joker’s ideals? The Interrogation Scene. Read the rest of this entry »
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 3-Tokyo Drift
The Third Episode of The Filmdogs Podcast is up!! This week we discuss the blasphemy that is the rumor of a Taxi Driver remake among other happenings in the news. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino go head to head in our VS. segment. We decide which upcoming 2010 films will be worth seeing in our featured topic, and laugh out loud at a One Liner of the Week from The Naked Gun. It’s the best third installment in a Trilogy since The Return of the King!
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