On Christmas Day, Ferrari will roar into theaters. The first film from acclaimed director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider) since 2015’s Blackhat. Set in 1957, the drama sees Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) on the brink of professional and personal ruin. His Italian car company is about to face bankruptcy, his …
Read More »'Ferrari' Boasts an Oscar-Worthy Penélope Cruz and Some Very Sexy Cars
There is an unstoppable force at the center of Michael Mann’s Ferrari. It is fast, fierce, and wildly unpredictable. One moment it has you in the throes of ecstasy; the next, fearing for your life. And when you see it coming around the bend, it’s curtains. Don’t even bother putting …
Read More »Adam Driver Calls Out Netflix and Amazon, Stands With Strikers in Venice
Adam Driver may be at the Venice Film Festival promoting his new film Ferrari, but he wants the striking SAG-AFTRA actors on the picket lines to know that he “stands in solidarity” with them. To be clear: Driver is not breaking any strike rules by appearing in Venice and doing …
Read More »Adam Driver Burns Rubber and Bridges in Michael Mann's 'Ferrari' Trailer
The only thing missing from the official teaser trailer for Michael Mann‘s Ferrari is an obscenely loud Charli XCX hyperpop song about driving fast and being hot — but that song actually ended up in Barbie. But Ferrari does have Adam Driver slipping into the persona of a troubled Italian …
Read More »'Heat 2': Why Michael Mann's Sequel to His Classic Crime-Movie Had to Be a Novel
It ends the only way it can end, with two of the toughest men in Los Angeles holding hands as one of them bleeds out on the periphery of LAX’s tarmac. For the greater part of two and a half hours, we’ve watched Neil McCauley — mastermind of heists and …
Read More »Michael Mann Pays Tribute to James Caan: 'He Had a Vitality in the Core of His Being'
Michael Mann has paid tribute to James Caan, who died on Wednesday. They first worked together on Mann’s debut feature-length film, 1981’s Thief. Caan portrayed Frank Hohimer in the influential heist film based on Hohimer’s true crime book, 1975’s The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar. “What a terrible …
Read More »'Tokyo Vice': What If 'Miami Vice' Had a White-Savior Complex?
In one episode of the new HBO Max crime drama Tokyo Vice, American-born newspaper reporter Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort) is running his Japanese editor Eimi (Rinko Kikuchi) through the many deceased victims of the elaborate criminal conspiracy he has uncovered. After a moment, she interrupts his generic descriptions to point …
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