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Film critic Peter Rainer pines for the days when movie criminals showed more grit than glitz, something you won't find in 'Public Enemies.' Hollywood has made so many 1930s-era gangster movies that the only excuse for a new one is novelty.

Starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, and Channing Tatum. Rated 14A. Johnny Depp gives bank robber John Dillinger bad-boy cool in Public Enemies , where everybody bleeds and nobody sweats.

Writer Susan Compo recently authored a tremendous Warren Oates biography and Oates fans who have not yet read the book can look forward to it with tremendous anticipation.

WHO knew John Dillinger wore eyeliner? The fatally miscast Johnny Depp's smaller-than-life performance as the famed gangster is the central flaw in Michael Mann's disappointing, curiously uninvolving "Public Enemies." Depp is one of my favorite actors, but stepping out of a long string of fantasy roles, he lacks the requisite menace to play ...

Johnny who? Here are some other great Public Enemies Are you looking forward to this week's release of Public Enemies , the gangster flick based on the criminal careers of "Pretty Boy" Floyd , "Baby Face" Nelson and the rogue in this gallery so tough that he didn't need a catchy nickname, John Dillinger ? Anyway, the chance to again see gun-toting ...

Author Tom McGuane said he had the all-time greatest squint in movies. Critic David Thomson suggested that part of his singular appeal came from his being that rare actor willing to look genuinely dumb.

Hollywood renegade Sam Peckinpah's favorite film was John Huston's 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre,' and when he co-wrote and directed his own tale of avarice gone awry, the 1974 thriller 'Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia,' Peckinpah found a cinematic descendent of Humphrey Bogart in the character actor Warren Oates, whose volatile mix of machismo ...

A century-old building in downtown Hunter has been demolished after its roof collapsed into the street and officials feared the rest of the building might tumble.

I just cannot get behind this Star Trek rebirth.A The whole thing is just so unrealistic.A Not the warp speed or phasers or beaming about the universe - those are at least remotely plausible.A I am talking about the fact that the starship Enterprise is composed entirely of officers and yet it still seems to function.A Where are the non-commissioned ...

I went to see Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia on the day it opened on Hollywood Boulevard in 1974.

Monomania, single-mindedness, obsession. Whatever you want to call it, the drive that blacks out everything in the periphery and narrows one's focus on an impossible goal eludes contemporary man.

Warren Mercer Oates was one the greatest character actors to ever appear in American film.

Michael Caine as the least likable international man of mystery; Billy Wilder's essay on the most common male character flaw; the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers remains unsurpassed.

Sam Peckinpah's famously bloody, balletic, slo-mo 1969 Western has more to do with the Vietnam era than frontier days-probably not a bad reason for screening it now.

THE only one of his movies that director Sam Peckinpah was ever truly happy with, this bleak, nihilistic, tequila-soaked road movie stars the magnificent Warren Oates as a scuzzy, soul-sick lowlife hired to ...

Welcome to the first installment of "Ask Anthology," our weekly film series where you get to pick the big brains over at Anthology Film Archives.

Race With The Devil "This novel fusion of car-chase film and spooky horror became a surprise box-office hit in 1975.

Need a change of a pace from watching a typical feature film on DVD? Courtesy of Acorn Media, you can give the miniseries John Steinbeck's East of Eden a shot on March 3rd.

'Warren Oates in the Economic Crisis of 2008' Okay Mountain Through Feb. 21 Okay Mountain is piled full of paintings and drawings in the exhibit "Warren Oates in the Economic Crisis of 2008." This group show ...

This month's comprehensive Peckinpah retrospective at the National Film Theatre features Bloody Sam at his gentlest , his most ferocious and his wildest, most deeply personal .