Al Pacino

Review: The Irishman is a slow burn deconstruction of mafioso mythos

Movie Review | Luke Whiston | 14th December 2019

I wonder if I'll live to be old, and if so, what secrets will I have accumulated by then? I don't mean secrets like things I ate that weren't mine; more like the sort of intimate knowledge that could change the course of history, sunk so deep it weighs down the soul of even the hardest immoral criminals. I guess that's why Martin Scorsese chose to make a three-and-a-half hour film about violent mob assassins involved in some of the most shocking conspiracies the world has ever seen, and not the time I took my girlfriend's Toblerone from the fridge and denied it because I was scared.

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Danny Collins

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 28th May 2015

Hello, I am a man and I am rich and famous and a bit of a dick, but watch as I earn the right to be reappraised. You will know that I deserve it because I have one old friend who sticks by me unwaveringly, I harbour regrets about having chosen an easy path towards my fame, and children react well to me.

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Pacino Phil Spector HBO biopic to be totally serious thing

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 29th January 2013

"No Al, we know the hair's consistent with Spector's. And ... yes, no, we know it's an outward indicator of his fractured psyche, and ... yes, we ... uh-huh, but we ... no, but the thing ... no, but Al? You know LittleBigPicture? And you know how their standard banner images are 145 pixels high? It's just ... I mean, how are they going to fit the ... Hello? Al?"

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Al Pacino hair update: Al Pacino's hair looks like this now

Movie News | Ali | 12th March 2012

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Films on TV round-up: planes and cocaines

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 12th February 2012

Bloody hell, I hope The Bodyguard's not on. That'd be awkward.

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Films on TV round-up: one-armed men and one-man armies

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 22nd May 2011

Yeah, pretty clever headline, right? I almost got a job writing headlines for the Daily Mail once, but it fell through because I only knew three synonyms for 'gypsies'.

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Scorsese wants Pacino and De Niro as Sinatra and Dino

Movie News | Ali | 25th May 2010

Martin Scorsese is going old school to cast his long-awaited Frank Sinatra biopic: he allegedly wants Al Pacino to play Ol' Blue Eyes, with Bobby De Niro as li'l ol' wine drinker Dean Martin.

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More like Al Perv-cino! Right guys?

Movie News | Ali | 4th March 2010

Footage has emerged, revealing cinematic legend Al Pacino is actually a closet lady-fondler. The more tense he gets, the more he grabs. Shame on you, Al.

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Righteous Kill

Movie Review | Ali | 5th October 2008

"Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets." Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver, 1976. Thirty odd years later and Robert De Niro has finally taken those words to heed in Righteous Kill, playing a crooked cop dishing out street justice to evil-doers alongside fellow crusader Al Pacino in a match-up that's had f...

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