My Influences: The Structure of The Shield, Heat, and The Good The Bad And The Ugly
Spoilers for The Shield, but honestly, it’s morally wrong not to have seen it already. All three…
Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on HEAT
Heat was marketed as a tense, action-packed heist flick starring two of our greatest living…
Taco Break: Off-The-Shelf Storytelling
I’ve talked before about my fascination with stories that lift from garbage, and now I…
Nowhere Man: TENET (2020)
“To even know its true nature is to lose.” Tenet disappoints like no other Christopher…
Year Of The Month: The Dark Knight
“The die is cast.” – Julius Caesar “You either die a hero, or you live…
Maximum Cool: BULLITT (Year of the Month)
Look at me. What I’m thinking is, “You’re mine. I fuckin’ own you.” But what…
Taco Break: the Way We Were
For nothing is lost, nothing is ever lost. (Robert Penn Warren) Picking up on a…
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…
