Al Pacino News

The sea has calmed down and life's getting back to normal. There's promise of much activity on board what with many people signing on, and signing off over the next couple of days, not to mention the STS cargo discharge taking place on Friday 13th ....that's tomorrow.

All right, folks, strap in and keep your remotes handy because today I'm going to talk about Heat, one of the longest movies you'll ever love.

Features: DVD Enjoy Mob Box Set 4 film package with DONNIE BRASCO, SNATCH, BUGSY and THE AMERICAN GANGSTER .

PF KLUGE'S ARTICLE in Life about bank robber John Wojtowicz noted that he had the "good looks of an Al Pacino" ... and Al Pacino did indeed play the character based on Wojtowicz in "Dog Day Afternoon." The robbery was intended to pay for Ernest Aron's sex-change surgery.

It may be an advertising grab if there ever was one, but that doesn't make Empire's Picture Perfect: Iconic Movie Stills feature any less impressive.

The Southern California Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation will present the 22nd "Commitment to a Cure" Awards Gala on Saturday, November 14th, beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the Beverly Wilshire hotel.

DIRECTORS such as Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann and Christopher Nolan are on hand in DVD extras in this deluxe package to testify to the worth of the film noir genre, if you require such expert testimony.

THE GODFATHER, PART II a ' The second installment of Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning "Godfather" trilogy, based on Mario Puzo's novel, includes flashbacks to Vito Corleone's early days in 1920s New York.

An L.A. cop becomes fixated on a deadly thief and his crew who are wreaking havoc on the streets of the city.

A lawyer who worked on the case against the tobacco industry as portrayed in the movie "The Insider" will speak in Omaha following a screening of the movie.

Jewelry, mansions, yachts, parties, a fleet of insanely expensive cars. And free-flowing millions.

The first lines in the movie The Godfather christened a respectable trilogy. Two-and-a-half decades later, The Long Halloween found its way to bookstores with the protagonist, millionaire Bruce Wayne, opening the story saying, "I believe in Gotham City." Noir is at its peak in this graphic novel, because Wayne's listener, gangster Carmine Falcone, ...

You scream, I scream, we all scream for a Blu-ray and DVD release party on Tuesday for "Up" at Fenton's Creamery.

Fourteen years after Heat brought Al Pacino and Robert De Niro together onscreen for the first time, a new edition comes to Blu-ray. But do you need it? De Niro plays McCauley, the head of a paramilitary-style robbery crew, with Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore as his backup and Pacino as Hanna, the cop tracking them down.

"You're out of order?" howls idealistic attorney Arthur Kirkland . "You're out of order? This whole trial's out of order!" Those lines from Academy Award-winner Norman Jewison's legal satire ...And Justice for All became a signature Pacino moment, and sum up the fiery conflict at the film's core.

There are times when Jeff Bewkes, the chief executive of Time Warner, must feel like Al Pacino's tortured and burdened Michael Corleone in "The Godfather: Part III" -- especially when Michael famously mutters through clenched teeth, "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in." That line sums up Bewkes' plight with his sprawling media ...

"Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner." Michael Mann's "Heat" represents just about everything that is right in filmmaking.

Through April 6, J Mandle Performance will present the stylish new production "Feast," a large-scale, interdisciplinary work blending architecture with choreography by Beppie Blankert, sound by Paul Geluso, Julia Mandle's expressive costumes and lighting by Aaron Copp.

In anticipation of the Guy Expo coming to Houston , I thought about the top guy movies of all time.

Is it possible for two seismic talents to cancel one another out? That's the immediate question posed by the peculiarly unmoving new Duchess Theatre production of Beckett's "Endgame," a view of the end of the world that here reveals much about finding and holding the thespian spotlight when you're playing opposite a colleague who is himself no ...