Nowhere Man: TENET (2020)
“To even know its true nature is to lose.” Tenet disappoints like no other Christopher…
The King’s Deathbed: DreamWorks in 2004 (Year of the Month)
Nicole Laporte’s excellent book The Men Who Would Be King chronicles the whole sad saga of…
Taco Break: Stop The Plot
My taste for relentlessly plotted genre works is well known around these parts, but a…
DOUBLE FEATURE: FARGO VS COLLATERAL
I need to get an obvious thought out of the way first. Technically speaking, films…
Lonely City: COLLATERAL (2004)
Collateral stands as the best of Michael Mann’s ongoing digital period, which may conclude with…
Michael Mann’s Blue Period: BLACKHAT (2015)
Like Thomas Pynchon, Michael Mann has made a series of genre works in his later…
The Professionals: Michael Mann’s Men
The iconic repeated image of a Michael Mann film is a man with a gun,…