Review: The Town

The Boston crime movie has become a genre of its own, the past few years have seen ‘Mystic River,’ ‘The Departed,’ and Affleck’s own ‘Gone Baby Gone.’ ‘The Town,’ is another excellent addition to the genre, and shows Affleck becoming increasingly more comfortable in the directors chair. Sam Fuller once said that a movie has …

Monahan and King Together Again

Bill Monahan, Oscar winning screenwriter of The Departed is teaming up once again with Producer Graham King to adapt an article appearing in Playboy this year. The story is about a drug dealer who trades prison clothes for a straight jacket (not literally), going undercover at a mental hospital to get a serial killer to …