Al Pacino

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." - Mario Puzo, The Godfather novel Released half-a-century ago, The Godfather remains an integral and ageless work of art. Based on the bestselling novel by Mario Puzo and directed…

Rarely equalled, never bettered is a phrase that’s easily used to describe masterpieces. There is no film of its kind better than Heat and, in the rarest case, it has no equals either. The peak, if not the conclusion, of Michael Mann’s…

Anzio, Italy. World War II. Frank Sheeran, an American G.I. in full combat gear, carries an M1 carbine, standard issue for the infantry of the U.S. forces of the time. Two German soldiers complete the digging of a hole in the forest…

When Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro come together you are guaranteed a masterpiece. Their first outing Mean Streets, the film in which a supporting De Niro as Johnny Boy showed the world that he was a star. Taxi Driver is Marty at his…

The Godfather is full of shit. And piss. And semen, lots and lots of snot, bits of brain and skull, and, of course, plenty of blood. In the original Godfather novel, Mario Puzo has a strange need to follow nearly every moment of high drama…

So this is an interesting episode of The HeadStuff Podcast. I saw a video a couple of weeks ago of this guy doing impressions, and I'm a man who appreciates a good impression. The story of the video was that Robert DeNiro was kicked out of…

This is a film about Al Pacino playing a thinly veiled metaphor for Al Pacino. Danny Collins is a commercially successful but artistically bankrupt, ageing singer who wants for nothing financially - a Bob Dylan turned into a Neil Diamond.…