Tag: ali

  • A Bit Boring, Bottom Line

    Public Enemies Review Listen, Michael Mann made Heat and he can pretty much coast for the rest of his career and I would still think he’s a genius. But really in many of Mann’s films there’s a sort of clinical closeness that’s distancing, he’s not the type of filmmaker that you’d expect to see a…

  • Like A Really Intellectual, Long Button

    Benjamin Button Review Imagine Forrest Gump by way of David Fincher, and that’s pretty much Benjamin Button. It’s not a coincidence the same screenwriter worked on both films. Eric Roth has written a lot of really intelligent, emotionally detached screenplays, such as The Insider, Ali and The Good Shepherd. His work is undeniably strong and…