Fire Ranch is a new and unique brand of Oklahoma agriculture collective. The crops here are all grown inside metal buildings, with a small farmhouse, or “Farmacy,” at the entrance. A 1947 Ford pickup acts as the sign to the property at 3215 E. Waterloo Road. “I work in oncology, so I’m very medically backgrounded. […]
Goodfellas
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Friends in high places
Credit: Brad Gregg Brooks told the Sun, “It would be amazing if it works out with Scorsese. I’m not confirming or denying that.” Our hope is that the 70-year-old Scorsese, arguably America’s greatest living director, won’t waste his time with someone who peaked 20 years ago. Then again, some of Scorsese’s strange-sounding projects pan out […]
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Kill the Irishman
It’s hardly the only instance of a mob film you’ll be reminded of while watching writer/director Jonathan Hensleigh’s biopic of Irish gangster Danny Greene, but at least the filmmaker cribs from the best and makes them work for his own. If the phrase “luck of the Irish” didn’t already exist, it would have to be […]
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct
But in the films he makes back home in his native France, he can be such a bad-ass, perhaps never more so than in the title role of “Mesrine: Killer Instinct,” the first in a pair of biopics on French gangster Jacques Mesrine, who died in 1979. (The sequel, “Mesrine: Public Enemy #1,” follows in […]