“That Means You Don’t Talk”: Michael Mann’s The Insider

Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) records his whistleblowing interview for 60 Minutes in Michael Mann’s The Insider (1999).

|Steve Rybin| Four years separate Michael Mann’s crime drama Heat (1995) and his next movie, The Insider (1999).  While Heat’smonumental pairing of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro is considered by many to be the highlight of the director’s career, The Insider remains the Mann film… Continue reading

The Art of the Reference in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Detective falling with rabbit & mouse.

|Jackson Stern| I remember when I was eleven or twelve and I watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit for the first time. Around the age of ten, I caught the cinephile bug after discovering classics like King Kong and Casablanca but before that Continue reading