public enemies

Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Big Screen

Unfrozen Dinosaurs, Raging Robots Broker Tentative Peace Accord

12:47AM Richard Lawson | We have a tie! For now. The actuals will come out soon and one film will beat the other. But now! Ambivalence or equality or peace or something. How perfect, as we stand in the smoky ashes of Freedom’s birthday. Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the US box office report. More »
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Big Screen

Will Public Enemies Be Just Another Hollow Michael Mann Movie?

6:06AM Richard Lawson | So Public Enemies, writer/director Michael Mann’s slick new crime drama, is getting pretty decent reviews, but reading them doesn’t exactly make us excited to see the damn thing. Mann is just so uneven—a technical wizard who ignores everything else. More »
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Big Screen

Public Enemies Makes Us Want to Shoot Bankers, Too

8:19AM Defamer Hollywood | Everyone’s mad at the banks these days, because they’ve robbed us blind, and now they’re holding their hands out wanting some more, please. So it’s a perfect time for Johnny Depp as bank-robber John Dillinger. More »
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Early ‘Public Enemies’ Reviews Hint Johnny Depp Might Be Proficient Actor

7:12AM STV | After the controversy that ended production on Public Enemies beneath a pall of suspicion and busted craft-services morale, we are relived to hear today that Michael Mann’s gangster epic survived — and maybe even flourished. More »
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Jeremy Piven and Stephen Dorff Invoke Fragile Peace at ‘Public Enemies’ Wrap Party

2:20AM Defamer Hollywood | We’re happy to see today that the winged gatekeeper budget-monkeys on the set of Michael Mann’s Public Enemies — who so scandalously sought to exclude scores of part-timers from the film’s recent wrap party in Chicago — ultimately came around to relaxing their admission standards to the point where even Stephen Dorff was welcome. That would have been a good enough concession for the justice crusaders over here at Defamer HQ — but for Dorff’s infamous urinal-queue archnemesis Jeremy Piven to show up as well? Jesus Christ, will they just let anybody into this place? More »
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