#HateFilms: Heat
“Wasn’t great” was Michael Owen’s two-word review of this 1995 showdown between the cop (Al Pacino), the thief (Robert De Niro), his wife (Diane Venora) and her lover (Xander Berkeley). […]
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Jazz Odyssey: Bird
This is a 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker (Forest Whitaker) directed by one-liner comedian and arch nemesis of Tim Westwood, Clint Eastwood. Bird fits in the Elephant Man/Gandhi category of […]
The Insider
This thriller from Michael Mann deals with the cigarette industry, whistle-blowers and the media as top tobacco executive Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) tries to go public with damaging revelations. The legal minefield he […]
