2008 Woodie Awards
A weekend dedicated to ... CRIME
Issue date: 10/31/07 Section: Lifeline
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Staff Reporter Brad Canze highlights "American Gangster," which is set to open in theaters this weekend and picks the best visual entertainment to fill the weekend with an abundance of gangster sagas.
"American Gangster": Denzel Washington plays a New York drug lord who is being pursued by a detective played by Russell Crowe in this Vietnam-era crime drama.
Show times:
Mount Pleasant, Celebration Cinema, 4935 E. Pickard Road
1 p.m., 3:10 p.m., 6:20 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 9:10 p.m., 10:55 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Lansing, NCG Eastwood Cinemas, 2500 Showtime Drive
11:50 a.m., 12:55 p.m., 3:05 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 6:20 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 9:40 p.m., 10:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Ann Arbor, Goodrich Quality 16, 3686 Jackson Road
11:55 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 12:40 p.m., 3:05 p.m., 3:25 p.m., 3:50 p.m., 6:15 p.m., 6:35 p.m., 7:00 p.m., 9:25 p.m., 10:10 p.m.
Rent these:
"Training Day" (2001): "American Gangster" star Washington is a crooked narcotics officer training Ethan Hawk's rookie cop in Washington's dangerous and morally twisted method of upholding the law.
"The Killing" (1956): Stanley Kubrick's triumphant noir thriller about a brilliant and daring racetrack robbery has inspired crime films for the last half-century.
"Smokey and the Bandit" (1977): Burt Reynolds has a long way to go, and a short time to make an illegal shipment of beer from Texas to Georgia with the law on his tail. A light, fun take on the crime genre.
"Infernal Affairs" (2002): This Hong Kong movie on which "The Departed" was based tells the tale of an undercover cop and a gangster mole in the police trying to out one another as rats. Arguably more tense and effective than its Hollywood remake.
lifeline@cm-life.com
"American Gangster": Denzel Washington plays a New York drug lord who is being pursued by a detective played by Russell Crowe in this Vietnam-era crime drama.
Show times:
Mount Pleasant, Celebration Cinema, 4935 E. Pickard Road
1 p.m., 3:10 p.m., 6:20 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 9:10 p.m., 10:55 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Lansing, NCG Eastwood Cinemas, 2500 Showtime Drive
11:50 a.m., 12:55 p.m., 3:05 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 6:20 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 9:40 p.m., 10:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Ann Arbor, Goodrich Quality 16, 3686 Jackson Road
11:55 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 12:40 p.m., 3:05 p.m., 3:25 p.m., 3:50 p.m., 6:15 p.m., 6:35 p.m., 7:00 p.m., 9:25 p.m., 10:10 p.m.
Rent these:
"Training Day" (2001): "American Gangster" star Washington is a crooked narcotics officer training Ethan Hawk's rookie cop in Washington's dangerous and morally twisted method of upholding the law.
"The Killing" (1956): Stanley Kubrick's triumphant noir thriller about a brilliant and daring racetrack robbery has inspired crime films for the last half-century.
"Smokey and the Bandit" (1977): Burt Reynolds has a long way to go, and a short time to make an illegal shipment of beer from Texas to Georgia with the law on his tail. A light, fun take on the crime genre.
"Infernal Affairs" (2002): This Hong Kong movie on which "The Departed" was based tells the tale of an undercover cop and a gangster mole in the police trying to out one another as rats. Arguably more tense and effective than its Hollywood remake.
lifeline@cm-life.com
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