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C. Robert Cargill , Jul 09, 2009 Michael Mann . Once a pioneer of dark, nihilistic action, he's since continued his mood and themes while pioneering new HD technologies.

Toronto has been known for the Toronto International Film Festival, but the real heart of horror films has been for the last number of years, The Toronto After Dark Film Festival.

He-e-e-r-r-r-e's Johnny! Johnny Depp goes after banks and Marion Cotillard in "Public Enemies," now at area theaters.

For an initial stretch of Michael Mann's Public Enemies , bankable antihero Johnny Depp seems like just the right fit for John Dillinger's trench coat and tommy gun.

Mr. Inman: This past week I saw the last few minutes of a rather intense movie that had a young William Petersen as a cop.

Nathaniel Rogers would live inside a movie theater but for the poor internet reception.

So Public Enemies , writer/director Michael Mann 's slick new crime drama, is getting pretty decent reviews , but reading them doesn't exactly make us excited to see the damn thing.

Public Enemies , the John Dillinger biopic directed by Michael Mann and starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard, is one of the summer's most hotly anticipated films.

Depp as Dillinger. John Dillinger. Details: Public Enemies , starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Billy Crudup, and Marion Cotillard.

Director Michael Mann blocks out a scene with Johnny Depp while filming a oePublic Enemies.a Mann got to return to UW-Madison, where he was a student.

Michael Mann has a thing for American renegades. Some of them were created by others .

IT'S a Hollywood truism that for every movie that sees the light of day, a hundred others languish in the purgatory of development.

There are people who claim that Michael Mann is a genius, as well as the most brilliant and assured maker of passages of pure film now working in America.

With a suave Johnny Depp making a rare appearance as an actor in a role rather than a piece of decor, there is definitely going to be a measurable constituency for Public Enemies , Michael Mann's frequently taut but ultimately unsatisfying new gangster picture.

The Chicago premiere of filmmaker Michael Mann's ''Public Enemies'' drew hundreds of film fans to the AMC River East 21 theaters on East Illinois Street Thursday night, and judging by the adoring screams, it was clearly due to two men: Johnny Depp and Christian Bale.

Sitting in the cosy drawing room of a luxurious London hotel, sipping tea from a delicate china cup and saucer, Brian Cox looks a million miles away from his latest on-screen alter-ego. The Dundee-born actor will appear in The Take as vicious crime kingpin Ozzy from Wednesday June 17.

A leading man on the London stage since the 1960s, Brian Cox was most often cast in character and supporting roles when his career led him to Hollywood in the 1990s.

THE CAST: Director Rupert Wyatt has broken into the big time with his new film The Escapist.

Those kids in the 80a s were a mess. They were always listening to their Walkmen and getting killed by Satanic cults.

American gangster A Johnny Depp plays legendary mobster John Dillinger in Michael Manna s filma oePublic Enemies,a due out July 1. Traditionally, nothing could be more black and white in Hollywood cinema than the idea of cops and robbers, and this theme has had incredible popularity ever since the early 20th century.