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News Source: The Guardian
| 5 months ago
Stephen Graham has put his name to some pretty unpleasant characters in his short career. And he has the perfect face for it: a bruiser's eyes, puffy around the edges, moist with remorse and hardened by trouble. So it is not merely Graham's bonhomie...
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News Source: Village Voice
| 5 months ago
So says the Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero John Dillinger upon surveying the clientele of a chic Chicago eatery in a key scene from Michael Mann's Public Enemies . And, much like its subject, Mann's exhilarating movie exists in a state of...
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News Source: The New York Times
| 5 months ago
The thrills are certainly there in the sensationally choreographed prison break that opens the movie under a bright blue Midwestern sky that stretches across the wide screen like a cathedral ceiling. Dappled by fluffy white clouds, it is the kind of...
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News Source: Weekly Dig
| 5 months ago
The gangster film bloomed during the Great Depression, and its universe of hard-boiled characters, elegant low-key lighting and a plot that flipped the moral paradigm was a product of its age. During the 1930s, the perversion of the American...
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News Source: The Globe & Mail
| 5 months ago
Liam Lacey From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Tuesday, Jun. 30, 2009 04:21PM EDT P ublic Enemies Michael Mann's lush and long biographical film about the famed 1930s bank robber John Dillinger has soft and oily murderous night scenes...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
The film opens with a dizzying action sequence, in which Dillinger (Johnny Depp) springs the loyal members of his bank-robbing crew loose from the Indiana State Penn. After this gripping start, Dillinger and his cohorts commit an impressive string of...
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News Source: Honolulu Advertiser
| 5 months ago
Is there any role Johnny Depp cannot make his own? Last seen as a singing Victorian barber and serial killer in "Sweeney Todd," the human chameleon has effortlessly mutated into Depression-era desperado John Dillinger for director Michael Mann's "...
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News Source: The Daily Herald
| 5 months ago
It's safe to say that most viewers of the newly released gangster flick "Public Enemies" will have a hard time looking away from Johnny Depp's movie-star face. In certain scenes, though, some suburbanites will be focused not on Depp, but on the...
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News Source: The Daily Journal
| 5 months ago
They're waiting to discover the answer to that question this summer at the South Shore Convention and Visitors Bureau in Hammond, Ind. After a long legal battle, the bureau won the right to reopen the John Dillinger Museum -- just in time to cash in...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 5 months ago
Bale, 35, became a laughing stock earlier this year after an audio tape of him telling off a crew member on the set of Terminator Salvation hit the internet. He was forced to apologise after the expletive-ridden tirade became public and his outburst...