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Adam Driver races across Italy in Michael Mann’s Ferrari teaser trailer

August 30, 2023 by Matt Rodgers

Ahead of its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, Neon has released the teaser-trailer for Michael Mann’s Adam Driver-led Enzo Ferarri biopic Ferarri, which you can race to the bottom of the post to watch now… Ferrari has been adapted by Mann and the late Troy Kennedy-Martin from Brock Yate’s 1991 biography Enzo […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Adam Driver, Ferrari, Jack O'Connell, Michael Mann, Patrick Dempsey, Penelope Cruz, Shailene Woodley

Michael Mann says he wants Adam Driver for Neil McCauley in Heat 2

August 23, 2023 by Matt Rodgers

Earlier in the year it was reported that Michael Mann was looking to adapt his New York Times Best-Seller Heat 2 for the big-screen, and that Adam Driver had been in discussions to play the younger version of Robert De Niro’s iconic L.A. criminal, Neil McCauley.  Well, now that the 80-year old director is parking […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: Adam Driver, Heat, Heat 2, Michael Mann

Manhunter: Michael Mann’s slippery, enduring masterpiece revisited

August 17, 2023 by George Nash

A commercial flop at the time of release, the film that introduced moviegoers to Hannibal Lecter has since earned deserved plaudits. George Nash takes a look at its impact three decades on… Manhunter, director Michael Mann’s 1986 adaptation of Thomas Harris’s bestselling novel Red Dragon, is a film about transformations. Like The Silence of the […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, George Nash, Movies Tagged With: Hannibal Lecter, manhunter, Michael Mann, Mindhunter, The Silence of the Lambs, True Detective

Michael Mann in talks with Adam Driver to play a young Robert De Niro in Heat 2

April 4, 2023 by Matt Rodgers

Once Michael Mann has parked his Adam Driver-led Enzo Ferrari biopic, he hopes to convince the actor to play a young Neil McCauley in his sequel to revered 1995 crime-epic Heat. Deadline reports that Heat 2 is starting to gain some real traction at Warner Bros. and that Mann wants to adapt the New York […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Adam Driver, Heat, Heat 2, Michael Mann, Robert De Niro

Heat: Still the Best Crime Thriller of the Modern Era

December 15, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at Heat, which was released on this day in 1995 and remains the best crime thriller in the modern era… It’s hard to believe, but Heat is fast approaching thirty years old. The enduring neo-noir instantly enraptured fans upon release, bringing two screen titans in Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Al Pacino, Ashley Judd, Danny Trejo, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Venora, Hank Azaria, Heat, Jon Voight, Kevin Gage, Michael Mann, Mykelti Williamson, Natalie Portman, Robert De Niro, Ted Levine, Tom Noonan, Tom Sizemore, Val Kilmer, Wes Studi, William Fichtner

First look at Adam Driver in Michael Mann’s Ferrari

October 7, 2022 by Ricky Church

We now have our first official look at Adam Driver as former race car driver and automobile designer Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann’s upcoming biopic Ferrari.  Ferrari takes place in the summer of 1957 and follows the ex-racecar driver as “bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Ricky Church Tagged With: Adam Driver, Ferrari, Michael Mann

James Caan’s Finest Hour: Thief

July 11, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

We look back at the iconic work of the late, great James Caan and take a deep dive into the underrated neo-noir masterpiece Thief, with Caan at his fiery, mesmeric best…  The sad news has broken. Another cinematic icon has left us, leaving behind an awe inspiring legacy. James Caan for a time, was synonymous […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Elf, Eraser, Honeymoon in Vegas, James Caan, Michael Mann, Mickey Blue Eyes, Misery, rollerball, The Gambler, The Godfather, The Killer Elite, thief

The year Heat was criminally overlooked by the Oscars

March 25, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Oscars in 1996, when Heat was criminally overlooked by the Academy… The year was 1996, which looked back over the films of the previous year. It was a fairly strong year, and like a lot of the nomination lists throughout that decade there are some oddities. There are also […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Academy Awards, Al Pacino, Heat, Michael Mann, Oscars, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer

Ansel Elgort descends into the Japanese underworld in trailer for HBO Max series Tokyo Vice

March 16, 2022 by Amie Cranswick

HBO Max has released a poster and trailer for the crime drama Tokyo Vice. Loosely based on Jake Adelstein’s 2009 memoir Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan and with a pilot directed by Michael Mann (Manhunter, Heat), the series stars Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Ella Rumpf, […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, News, Television, Trailers Tagged With: Ansel Elgort, Ella Rumpf, HBO Max, Hideaki Itô, Ken Watanabe, Michael Mann, Rachel Keller, Rinko Kikuchi, Show Kasamatsu, Tokyo Vice, Tomohisa Yamashita

Michael Mann enlists Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz and Shailene Woodley for Ferrari

February 14, 2022 by Gary Collinson

After two decades of development and a false start in 2017, it looks like Heat director Michael Mann’s Enzo Ferrari biopic is inching further towards the start line with the news that Adam Driver (House of Gucci), Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers) and Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies) have been cast in the long-gestating project. The […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Adam Driver, Enzo Ferrari, Ferrari, Michael Mann, Penelope Cruz, Shailene Woodley

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