I wouldn’t classify LA Confidential as exactly a gangster movie, even though Mickey Cohen and Johnny Stompanato are both part of the story. It doesn’t feel like gangsters are the focus so much as citywide corruption and institutional rot.

This one really surprised me. Bugsy isn’t that great; it’s mostly just Warren Beatty playing himself, which he did in every film since Reds.

his daughter and son in-law sometimes demonstrate themselves to be naive about the world.

I love how “hundreds of rounds” of ammunition is framed as an excessive amount.

I used to put Goodfellas above The Godfather, but they’re really good as bookends. Godfather is more about the family/legacy aspect, while Goodfellas is more about how “the life” is a catch basin for dumb, violent goons who weren’t going to make a living any other way.

Donnie Brasco deserves more love. There is no better snapshot of how pathetic “the life” actually is, on a day-to-day basis.

Police released a picture of the driver and one of the passengers. They issued a BOLO for a one-armed driver seen fleeing the scene in a tanker truck.

Yes, came looking for New Jack City. Should have been listed.

he did a speedrun of it, too.

Any update on the Hero Trees?

Was he on the way home from a wholesale bullet warehouse, or is there always hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his car?

This Gen X-er grew up on re-runs of Jeffersons and Sanford and Son.

Headcanon: this is elaborate Peanuts fanfiction. (This is a positive.)

Good god what a legacy. Man flew in more than 50 air missions for the Air Force during WW2, came home and made some of the most influential TV shows ever. We wouldn’t have ANY of the shows we like today without him, and I especially appreciate him pushing the agenda with actual, impactful issues during the 70s.

I disagree, I think it can be sad regardless of a person’s age. It is definitely not a great tragedy, but it’s still sad. There are a lot of long-lived people in my family. My great grandma died in her mid 90s when I was in my early 20's. I remember offering my condolences to my grandma (her daughter, in her 70s at…

RIP to a true legend. Television today wouldn’t be what it is without Norman Lear.

Aww look, he thinks he’s people!

Glad to see Donnie Brasco on here. Taking note of Miller’s Crossing was welcome but not surprising, but I wasn’t expecting to see Brasco. That was Pacino’s best performance in a long time.

It’s the standard now. I think they make the price difference between the rental and purchase so small so that people* just shrug and say might as well own it for an extra $5.

But it’s 206 minutes long, so at least you’re getting your money’s worth.