GREAT OLD MOVIES

SONNY BOY: A Memoir . Al Pacino. Penguin; 2024. In this very well-written (by whom it is not known) memoir, there is a constant shifting fro...

The cast of House of Gucci HOUSE OF GUCCI  (2021). Director: Ridley Scott. Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver) is smitten with the outgoing and amb...

Al boogies in  the gay bar  CRUISING  (1980). Director: William Friedkin. INTERIOR: LEATHER BAR  (2013). Director: James Franco; Tra...

Josh Duhamel and Alice Eve MISCONDUCT  (2016). Director: Shintaro Shimosawa. New Orleans lawyer Ben Cahill (Josh Duhamel), feeling neg...

AL PACINO IN FILMS AND ON STAGE  is your humble blog-owner's new tome on Al Pacino. This book from McFarland has been greatly expanded...

ANY GIVEN SUNDAY (1999). Director: Oliver Stone. This is the old chestnut in which an aging man, in this case a football player (Dennis ...

Al Pacino as Grandpa TWO BITS (1995). Director: James Foley. In 1933 Philadelphia young Genarro (Jerry Barone) hopes to get a quarter ...

Greta Gerwig and Al Pacino THE HUMBLING  (2014). Director: Barry Levinson. Simon Axler (Al Pacino) is an actor who suffers a nervous...

De Niro and Pacino RIGHTEOUS KILL  (2008). Director: Jon Avnet. Homicide detectives Turk (Robert De Niro) and Rooster (Al Pacino) try ...

Helen Mirren and Al Pacino with Major Hair PHIL SPECTOR  (2013 telefilm). Writer/director: David Mamet. Record producer Phil Spector (...

OCEAN'S THIRTEEN  (2007). Director: Steven Soderbergh. When Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) winds up in the hospital because he gets...

Al Pacino and Paul Guilfoyle THE LOCAL STIGMATIC  (1990). Director: David F. Wheeler. Cockney roommates Graham (Al Pacino) and Ray (Pa...

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck GIGLI  (2003). Writer/director: Martin Brest. A "cute" (that is "nice") hit man nam...

CITY HALL (1996). Director: Harold Becker. When a cop and a lowlife kill each other in a shoot-out, a little boy is caught in the crossf...

88 MINUTES (2007). Director: Jon Avnet. The testimony of FBI psychologist Jack Gramm (Al Pacino of The Recruit ) helped put away a fiend...

Al Pacino THE RECRUIT (2003). Director: Roger Donaldson. Computer genius James Clayton (Colin Farrell of Fright Night ), whose father...

Al Pacino THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE (1997). Director: Taylor Hackford. Coming to realize that his accused pedophile client is guilty, K...

Channing Tatum and Ray Liotta THE SON OF NO ONE (2011). Written and directed by Dito Montiel. Young cop Jonathan White (Channing Tatum...

Al Pacino and Adam Sandler JACK AND JILL (2011). Director: Dennis Dugan. Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler), an advertising man in LA, has...

THE FRIEDKIN CONNECTION A Memoir. William Friedkin. HarperCollins; 2013. Back in the seventies William Friedkin was the well-known ban...