Monday, September 11, 2017

Powerful men don't have to be cruel

After a few runs of decent even remarkable acting efforts, I'm afraid, Ben Affleck is back to where he started. He looks amateurish, stiff, one-dimensional, tired and bored out of his tits. Albeit soulless, this is a decent enough a movie, but the source it's based on (courtesy of Dennis Lehane), there would have been so much to dig up. American Irish and Italian gangsters goin' head to head in eastern United States in times of The Great Depression, when illegal market run free and the criminals lived like kings.

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A scandal as a wedding present

This is Alfred Hitchcock 's 1940 spy thriller. An American reporter John Jones ( Joel McCrea ) - using the penname "Huntley Haverst...