Are you looking for the next film to put on your movie bucket list? If so, I’m ‘gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse’: The Godfather. Despite the fact it will mark its 50th anniversary in March 2022, the Francis Ford Coppola masterpiece remains an iconic blockbuster that plays a significant role in global pop culture. There’s a reason it appears on the ‘X movies to watch before you die’ lists around the world. You will not be disappointed. The Godfather Is One Of A Kind Most film critics would point towards The Godfather as one of the most…
Author: Nestor Cabal
If you are a fan of action thrillers, why haven’t you seen Miami Vice yet? Miami Vice is an American action thriller movie, which is about Tubbs and Crockett – two MDPD detectives – who go undercover in an attempt to fight drug trafficking operations. Michael Mann wrote, directed, and produced the film, which is an adaption of the Miami Vice television series from the ‘80s which brought Miami’s cocaine cowboys to life in film. There are a number of big stars in the film. Tubbs is played by Jamie Foxx while Crockett is played by Colin Farrell. Other stars…
If you are a fan of crime dramas, you must see Cocaine Cowboys. It is that simple. After a 2006 limited theatrical release, it became the highest-rated documentary ever to be shown on Showtime. The New York Times called it a “hyperventilating account of the blood-drenched Miami drug culture in the 1970s and ’80s.” It has been 14 years since Rakontur, the Miami Beach-based media studio, released the documentary. With all the fanfare surrounding Netflix’s Narcos and Telemundo’s release of anything Pablo Escobar, it seems an appropriate time to look back at this timeless classic. Cocaine Cowboys is Arguably Billy…
The Basic Instinct Story When a well-known nightclub owner and former rock star, Johnny Boz, is found murdered in his own bed, reformed Detective Nick Curran and his partner are put on the case. His investigation leads him to Boz’s lover, Catherine Tramell (Stone), an heiress and a writer whose novels the killer seems to be imitating. As Tramell becomes a prime suspect, Curran’s ex-girlfriend and police psychiatrist Beth Gardner (Tripplehorn) is brought in to consult on the case, complicating the situation even further. As Curran investigates. He is drawn deeper and deeper into the case, he begins an intense…
Black Mass, directed by Scott Cooper, is a biographical movie about the American mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. The film is based on the book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill. It tells the story of how Bulger became an FBI informant and how he begins to use the status to his advantage in his criminal activities. The movie received mixed reviews from audiences, although critics have given it generally positive reviews. Black Mass is a Story About People “It would have been easy to…