GO WEST, YOUNG MAN! Il mito della wilderness e dell’American Sublime (Corriere UTE, Ott. 2022)

Double De Niro makes for a laborious true-story mafioso movie. The actor plays Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, two warring mob bosses in 1950s New York, in a caper that lacks the richness of its writer’s earlier Goodfellas. Just before the war, Frank and Vito make a good living in black market alcohol and drugs an...

R. Mitchum, to the femme fatale while framing the villain: When your teeth stop chattering, you get Ortega on the phone ... R. Mitchum, alla protagonista femminile mentre tiene sotto tiro il cattivo: Quando i denti finiranno di batterti, chiama l'ispettore Ortega al telefono ... https://youtu.be/0SY2PPnIZg4

Notes on this Fall's picks Very interesting biopic of a lesser-known character, more famous for his 'deadly toy' than his biography, which is instead full of strange facts. Who would say that the father of the atomic bomb was a communist sympathizer who would fall from governmental grace after helping his country wi...