Irish Month Continues with In Bruges Haiku

 

In Bruges Haiku:

Two Idol Hitmen / Mix with Tourists and Locals / While in Bruges Belgium

 

Irish Month – Brendan Gleeson Tribute Continues with In Bruges

Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell are two Hitmen taking a respite in Bruges Belgium after a botched hit.  While waiting orders from their Boss, Gleeson takes in the sights of the historic town.

Bruges rhymes with Rouge

Here is the trailer for this great movie.

The Lufthansa Job – 5 Arrests after 35 yrs

5 Arrests in 35yr Old Goodfellas Case

 

5 Arrests have been made in the Lufthansa job after 35 yrs.  This is the heist that was referenced in Goodfellas resulting in the deaths of most of the participants.

In the movie, Di Nero plays Jimmy Conway (Jimmy The Gent Burke in real life), who executes the biggest heist in US history.  Expecting to score $2 million, the haul is actually $6 million.

Rather than pay out the shares, Jimmy decides to whack most of the participants.

Here is the Wikipedia for Jimmy Burke:

Real Life Jimmy The Gent Burke – Lufthansa Mastermind

Here are those murdered after the Lufthansa Heist.  These murders follow closely the deaths in the movie:

Lufthansa Hit List

 

 

 

Danny Trejo’s Eyes – The Fandango Sisters

PunkCinema presents the Fandango Sisters in “Danny Trejo’s Eyes”

A punk tribute to Danny Trejo.

I hope to see more of Punk Cinema and the Fandango Sisters as they are brilliant.

Enjoy

Danny Trejo’s Filmography

Here’s Danny’s filmography from wikipedia

Here’s the link:  Danny Trejo’s Filmography

Danny Trejo Death Scene Compilation

Our Danny Trejo Festival continues with over 4 minutes of every Danny Trejo Death Scene filmed in Chronological order.

This compilation was put together by Jukka-Pekka Bohm

 

Enjoy

White Collar – Financial Crimes

Everything I’ve ever learned about finance I learned from these movies:

– Wall Street
– Trading Places
– Boiler Room

We start White Collar / Financial Crimes feature with Wall Street.

This movie really highlighted the causes of the market crash in the 1980’s. Leveraged Buyouts, Insider Information, Junk Bonds, Corporate Raiders. In the 80’s everybody was doing it. Only a few people had the foresight not to follow the crowd and get out before the collapse. This movie really gets to the heart of 80’s Wall Street Greed.

Michael Douglas as Gordon Gecko was exceptional. See the original movie and you’ll know why he won the academy award. Charlie Sheen was perfect as Bud Fox, and Daryl Hannah was hot.

Chuck Norris Filmography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris#Filmography

Source: wikipedia.org

Old School Movie Montage

June is Old School movie month and I found a great montage by jackbenny1924 on youtube. They put together a great montage of all the great old school movie actors including:
Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Muni, George Raft, and George E Stone.

The music is from Danny Elfman (Oingo Boingo, Batman soundtracks, etc). This montage features the best of the best of old school and sums it up in one great video. Enjoy.

Old School Movie Month with James Cagney in The Public Enemy

James Cagney was the Joe Pesci of the Black & White Gangster Movie era. Many people assume he was type cast as a Gangster actor except that he also danced and sand in movies such as Yankee Doodle Dandy. Cagney oozed talent, testosterone and tough guy attitude.

The Public Enemy released in 1931 is about a Chicago hoodlum, Tom Powers, played by Cagney, who rises to the top while his brother urges him to pursue a different lifestyle. An accidental killing leads to a climactic off-camera shootout with a rival gang that has Cagney stumbling to the gutter.

Some very cutting edge scenes of the day are in this movie that caused controversy.

In the scene below Cagney shows what happens when a women nags her gangster boyfriend.

Another great scene shows how Cagney manipulates a pawn shop owner resulting in a stick up. It is a brilliant scene that leads to the off-screen shoot out. In those days it took talented acting to portray implied off-screen actions. You never see the gun battle, you can only imagine. But you see the results.