What’s good this week: The Brothers Bloom, like all typical movies about badass people, has three parts essentially – a heroic build up, an expected complication and an ending where some characters get screwed and some are happy! But watching the movie did not feel like deja vu because it is a con movie - [...]

If film making was a science, then one of the few near-certain hypotheses one could make would be thus:
If a movie directed by Michael Mann stars Johnny Depp as a freewheeling reckless gangster/bank-robber going eye-to-eye with Christian Bale as a no-nonsense cop, it’s probably a very good one.
I am happy to report that we have proof of the [...]