Word: gangland
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...those English stars who shows up every few decades (like Cary Grant or Michael Caine) and refuses to drop his working-class, home-town accent. Anderson must have figured that the star of the Transporter series, and The Bank Job and a couple of Guy Ritchie gangland fantasies, would bring along his action-film bona fides. Which he does. Also his impressive torso. One of the movie's few moments of relative repose is a long, loving shot of Statham exercising in his cell, the taut muscles of his upper back pulsing under his flesh like alien tumors. He certainly...
...complying with censorship is a running concern for local filmmakers like Johnnie To, a jury member at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival, which kicks off later this month, and the acclaimed director of such films as Exiled (2006) and the Election gangland duology (2005, 2006). "Are you giving up your imagination and creativity in your filmmaking?" he asks. Tightened restrictions and a slowdown in mainland approvals in this Beijing Olympics year have added to filmmakers' worries. "Nobody knows what's happening," says director Lawrence Lau, who is known for gritty youth dramas like May's Besieged City. "In that...
...Greek word for "honorable man" - controls wide swaths of territory through intimidation and extortion. The payoff has been great: it has grown into a world leader in cocaine trafficking, with an estimated $47 billion in annual revenue. But the toll has been heavy. The "Massacre of Ferragosto" - the gangland killing last Aug. 15 in Duisburg, Germany, of six young men from in and around San Luca - was the first major 'Ndrangheta killing to occur on foreign soil. Violent death is more common in Calabria, where three people were killed in a five-day period in late March near the town...
...getting to be an old story. In recent days, two celebrated autobiographies have been exposed as fakes. The New York Times reported that Love and Consequences, a book about growing up half--Native American in the gangland of South Central Los Angeles, was actually written by a white woman who grew up in the suburban San Fernando Valley. The author, Margaret Seltzer, was ratted out by her sister, who had seen her picture and story featured, with total credulity, in the Times's own House & Home section the previous week...
...movie doesn't rise above its genre conventions so much as it burrows into them, finding complexities and contradictions in the standard tropes. You'll learn plenty about the perils of disappointing a strong patriarch, not to mention the iconography of Russian gangland tattoos. Cronenberg orchestrates all this, and his dedicated cast, to turn out an exercise that is brisk, dark, compelling ... everything but Canadian...