Angels with Dirty Faces News

Moviegoers have two chances to see Bogie on the big screen this weekend as the Library of Congress theater on Mount Pony continues its tribute to tough guys and dolls.

Back in the early 1980's, I actually did a considerable amount of research for a possible book on the Dead End Kids in all of their various permutations but a couple of other guys beat me to it.

The Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater on Mount Pony took time off this weekend so Uncle Sam could pay some bills.

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If you had to guess what film had the most impact on director Theo Angelopoulos when he was a child, you probably wouldn't pick Angels with Dirty Faces .

I finally caught " Up ," Pixar 's latest animated gem, over the holiday weekend.

For more than a year now, I've doing a bit on The Chris Vernon Show ever-so-creatively dubbed "Movies" where I give five rental recommendations based on a topic presumably connected to one of the new releases in theaters.

Celebrate Independence Day with America's greatest invention: the cinema! I'm looking forward to having a day off to catch up on some movies that have snuck past me, starting with Michael Mann's new gangster picture, Public Enemies.

Sure, George Raft might have actually hung out with mobsters like Bugsy Siegel. Bogart could play criminals with more sensitivity and depth.

You can watch this with nostalgia - oh, look, there's James Cagney ramming the grapefruit in Mae Clarke's face, there he is shot to pieces in the rain-washed gutter , and here he is wrapped up like a mummy, delivered to his mother's door, dead as a nail.