Mean Streets News

Harvey Keitel has joined the cast of the "Meet the Fockers" sequel. Regulars Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner and Owen Wilson are returning, along with newcomers Jessica Alba and Laura Dern.

Well, except it didn't ignite because Vas called Reno a mook. Oh, and I guess neither Reno nor Vas looked or sounded anything like Johnny Boy - Robert De Niro's trouble-making street hood character from Little Italy in NYC.

In Hollywood, the word "complicated" has two general meanings. The first refers to someone as "difficult" -- a pain-in-the-prat. The other refers to someone whose working process is intricate enough to try everyone's patience, but in the end delivers something good enough to make you glad they didn't hire someone else.

Last week, it was announced that Miramax Films would close its New York offices, and that its president, Daniel Battsek, was being asked to step down.

WHO do you get to follow Philip Glenister as the macho, sexist, hard-drinking 70s cop Gene Hunt? The people behind the new US version of hit show Life On Mars asked themselves the same question and all they could come up with was a "Harvey Keitel type". Then someone had the bright idea of asking the tough guy's tough guy himself - and he shocked ...

There are a great many movies set in New York, and there are even more supposedly set here but actually shot in Canada or somewhere else with no unions.

"I can only talk about what has moved me or intrigued me," says filmmaker Martin Scorsese at the beginning of this four-hour documentary about his passion for U.S. cinema.

Aug. 21, 2009 11:16 a.m. In 1973 legendary movie director Martin Scorsese released his break through film Mean Streets , which featured a theretofore unknown actor named Robert DeNiro.

Many of us love going to the movies. But sometimes you feel like staying in and renting something really good.

Based on the 1978 American film noir "Fingers"-the numbingly fierce and naked directorial debut by 33-year-old James Toback that starred Harvey Keitel as a Mafia boss's son who wants to be a classical pianist-this is a French film that takes the hard-boiled poetics of American noir and squeezes them into an explosive, compacted knot of anguish and ...

Based on the 1978 American film noir "Fingers"-the numbingly fierce and naked directorial debut by 33-year-old James Toback that starred Harvey Keitel as a Mafia boss's son who wants to be a classical pianist-this is a French film that takes the hard-boiled poetics of American noir and squeezes them into an explosive, compacted knot of anguish and ...

The newest version of this movie franchise won't let down any of its fans. An abundance of fast cars, scantily clad women, action and testosterone capably fill the void left after 2006's "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift." The latest reunites the original cast - Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster - from the 2001 ...

A bottle of Coke, a pack of Lucky's, and Windows XP - Appellate Judge Tom Becker's a bad DVD reviewer.

Garrett Conti can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-5685. 'Fast & Furious' The newest version of this movie franchise won't let down any of its fans.

Serhat Caradee's debut feature aims to truthfully portray the Lebanese-Australian experience.

THE PRODUCER CREDITS ON The Young Victoria are enough to crack up any movie fan.

The Robert De Niro page in the news July 15, 2009 Several paintings by actor Robert De Niro's late father were sold without the actor's permission during an art scam by a New York gallery.

Somehow, I have gone through my crime fiction reading career without really reading a John D. MacDonald novel.

I miss New York City. I miss the New York City I've never seen -- the one I've only seen in movies.

The marriage between pop music and movies has rarely been more harmonious than it is in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and John Badham's Saturday Night Fever .