Every "Batman" movie comes with a certain set of non-negotiable expectations: kickass Bat costume, an actor with a strong chin, all the usual supporting cast of comic book characters and classic members of his rogues' gallery, and ... Little Caesar's pizza tie-ins?
Look, I realize that superhero movies and overt commercialization go together like peanut butter and jelly -- that's just the way it is and always will be, especially for a hero who adds the "Bat" branding to every item he uses. Yet I can't help but feel like we've reached yet another level in the marketing blitz when studios just start handing...
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Look, I realize that superhero movies and overt commercialization go together like peanut butter and jelly -- that's just the way it is and always will be, especially for a hero who adds the "Bat" branding to every item he uses. Yet I can't help but feel like we've reached yet another level in the marketing blitz when studios just start handing...
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- 2/18/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Mother of mercy, did the movies mark the beginning of Rico? The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was named after the character Rico Bandello in what is largely considered to be the first gangster movie, Little Caesar. While Edward G. Robinson’s Rico wasn’t specifically Al Capone in that film, the real-life gangster’s signature cigar fumes are all over it. Josh Trank replaced the Cuban Corona with a carrot in the recent Vertical Entertainment film Capone, which stars Tom Hardy as the title character in his twilight years, suffering from a premature burial. The aging mobster’s memories were buried by the syphilis microbe, and along with it went the clues to his buried treasure.
That speculative biopic also depicts Capone as a film aficionado. He sings along with Bert Lahr’s incomparable “If I Were King of the Forest,” from The Wizard of Oz, and educates...
That speculative biopic also depicts Capone as a film aficionado. He sings along with Bert Lahr’s incomparable “If I Were King of the Forest,” from The Wizard of Oz, and educates...
- 5/15/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
A small-imprint–published slab of pulp fiction that became a huge literary sensation, Victor Headley’s 1992 novel Yardie drops readers into a London filled with ex-pat Jamaican kingpins, gang wars, alleyway assassinations and an antihero — “D.,” short for Dennis — who works his way up the underworld ladder. The writing was rough-and-ready straightforward, without the tough-guy stylistics of a Chandler or an Ellroy; the patois-heavy prose felt like it both represented Britain’s West Indian community and gave the rise-and-fall narrative a unique edge. An under-served demographic of readers found the...
- 3/14/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Tony Sokol Feb 14, 2019
We have a history of the real St. Valentine's Day Massacre for you, as well as its impact on movies and popular culture.
Flower shops and Valentine’s Day have a special link. Dean O’Banion’s floral arrangement was paid off on a cold St. Valentine’s Day in 1929. The garage at 2122 N. Clark St. had no heat. When the cops got there that morning seven guys were on ice. They had been lined up against a whitewashed wall like a firing squad. Almost a hundred bullets from submachine guns, shotguns, and a revolver riddled their bodies. Everybody thought Al Capone was behind the biggest mob hit in history, but Capone was in Florida at the time.
Al Capone was battling to be the head of crime in Chicago against George "Bugs" Moran. Moran inherited the Northside Gang from Hymie Weiss after he inherited it from...
We have a history of the real St. Valentine's Day Massacre for you, as well as its impact on movies and popular culture.
Flower shops and Valentine’s Day have a special link. Dean O’Banion’s floral arrangement was paid off on a cold St. Valentine’s Day in 1929. The garage at 2122 N. Clark St. had no heat. When the cops got there that morning seven guys were on ice. They had been lined up against a whitewashed wall like a firing squad. Almost a hundred bullets from submachine guns, shotguns, and a revolver riddled their bodies. Everybody thought Al Capone was behind the biggest mob hit in history, but Capone was in Florida at the time.
Al Capone was battling to be the head of crime in Chicago against George "Bugs" Moran. Moran inherited the Northside Gang from Hymie Weiss after he inherited it from...
- 2/8/2014
- Den of Geek
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