Dillinger

Dillinger loved planning the next job.....it deprives me of some stubborn need for closure.....This is a very good film, with Depp and Bale performances of brutal clarity.....Dillinger hates the system, by which he means prisons, that hold people;....I'm trying to understand why it is not quite a great film..... ... Full Review

A Review of Public Enemies (2009)When you hear the word "gang" or the words "gang member," what is it that first comes to your mind? ... Full Article

The new Michael Mann-directed film, "Public Enemies," is a good movie - not great, but it is an entertaining look at the 1930s and the early days of the FBI. ... Full Article

Those words reverberated around the nation in 1933 and 1934, the years that Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger gained his greatest notoriety as an infamous killer and bank robber. ... Full Article

In the 1930s, the gangsters of movies lived by a strict code. It wasn't about honor or loyalty, but a code imposed by film censors that dictated gangsters must always die, the law must always win and the lifestyle must... ... Full Article

Michael Mann has a thing for American renegades. Some of them were created by others (Hannibal Lecter, in "Manhunter," Natty Bumppo, in "The Last of the Mohicans"). ... Full Article

By John Beifuss, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn. Jul. 4--More a reverie of romantic banditry and paean to movie love than rat-a-tat-tat gangster yarn, director Michael Mann's dreamlike "Public Enemies" imagines the Depression-era "Golden Age of Bank Robbers" as the... ... Full Article