Simon Axler (Pacino) has invested his whole life in acting. He eats, sleeps, and breathes the craft, so when he finds his faculties failing, he's at a loss. What can he do with himself if he can't act…
Now, I enjoy football as much as the next gal (Go, Seahawks!), but I also know it is a game and it isn't the end-all/be-all of the New World Order. Or at least it shouldn't be. But Oliver Stone takes …
I remember hearing things when The Godfather: Part III was being made—unflattering things that hinted at disorganization and potential failure. Psst. Francis Ford is fiddling with the script as they g…
Pacino plays Will Dormer (the name a clever play on the French verb "to sleep"), a veteran cop from LA, who is called to a case in Alaska, the land of the midnight sun, as a favor to a friend in a sma…
There are movies you watch and movies that happen to you. Dog Day Afternoon first happened to me late one night in junior high as I was flipping channels during Saturday Night Live. I watched the enti…
Heat begins with a love scene between Al Pacino and Diane Venora so steamy that it makes me weak in the knees just to think about it. I can't believe she got paid to be kissed like that by him! Vincen…
Isn't it weird how some films reflect the times in which they were made, and others just become dated? And Justice For All suffers from the latter. I had a feeling I needed to watch this movie by myse…
I love the Revolutionary War. It has all the tragedy, glamour, and pomp, leaving none for the other wars. In fifth grade, my best friend and I made armies out of twigs and played Revolutionary War at …
I'm starting to think 88 Minutes was designed as some sort of gauntlet for Al Pacino's talent. It seems like someone actually sat down and said, "Hey, let's give Al this really weak script, send him o…
When The Devil's Advocate first came to video in the late nineties, my co-workers at a tiny independent video store literally fought over who got to keep the screener. Yes, a VHS screener that periodi…
I would just like to refute the notion that Author! Author! is a stinky Al Pacino movie. Maybe the people who said it was didn't see Gigli. Maybe they never had to sit through Dick Tracy. Maybe they w…
