Tag: Al Pacino
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De Diro and Pacino dunk their scrapple in Guinness in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman
Why am I reluctant to publicly pan one of the year’s most acclaimed films? What am I afraid of — being labelled a cinema rat, and getting whacked by a couple of film geeks? It took me years and years of being a film buff, through film school and beyond, for me to realize that…
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Death of a BLEEPing salesman: James Foley’s Glengarry Glen Ross
For better or for worse, Glengarry Glen Ross is very pointedly set in a world of men. I believe only one woman so much as appears onscreen, in the background of one single scene. It’s no accident, oversight, or deliberate act of Hollywood misogyny to banish women from this 24-hour slice of the lives of…