The Departed

The Limitations of Law Enforcement

Sam Kitchener | Posted 08.30.2011

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James 'Whitey' Bulger, a notorious Boston gangster on the FBI's 10 most wanted list for his alleged role in 19 murders, has been captured near Los Ang...

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Story Of Whitey Bulger, Just Caught Boston Mobster, Already Becoming A Movie

Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Edward Maxkenzie Street Soldier: My Life as an Enforcer for Whitey Bulger and the Boston Irish Mob, Edward Mackenzie, Peter Facinelli, The Departed, Whitey Bulger, Whitey Bulger Fbi, Peter Facinelli Whitey Bulger, Street Soldier: My Life as an Enforcer for Whitey Bulger and the Boston Irish Mob, Whitey Bulger Film, Entertainment News

For all the horrible damage done by Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, there is at least one beneficiary of the madness: "Twilight" and "Nurse Jackie" sta...

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James 'Whitey' Bulger Headed Back To Boston

AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 08.24.2011

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BOSTON — James "Whitey" Bulger's capture could cause a world of trouble inside the FBI. The ruthless Boston crime boss who spent 16 years on th...

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What Was 'Whitey' Doing In Santa Monica?

Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Whitey Bulger, Third Street Promenade, Catherine Greig, Boston Mob Boss, James Whitey Bulger, The Departed, Los Angeles News

UPDATED -- The Associated Press has more about how Bulger and Greig interacted with their neighbors: Many people in the Southern California neighb...

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Hix Nix Tix Pix (And So Does Everyone Else)

Stu Kreisman | Posted 05.30.2011

Unless it's chapter five of a franchise like Transformers, or lame remakes of classics like Arthur, nobody on the business side in Hollywood has a clue of what to do.

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Inception's Getting a Lot of Buzz: But as a Conception Doesn't Stand the Test

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Aviator, Cillian Murphy, Christopher Nolan, Shutter Island, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Lax, Ken Watanabe, Pete Postelthwaite, Ram Productions International, Michael Caine, The Dark Knight, Michael Russnow, Leonardo Dicaprio, Academy Awards, Magazines, Catch Me if You Can, Asia, Cbs, The Oscars, Dreams, Tom Berenger, The Departed, Abc, Award Season, Africa, Ellen Page, Twitter, Nbc, Japan, France, Cnn, Inception, Blood Diamond, Youtube, Fox News, Newspapers, Google, Facebook, Entertainment News

Inception takes us through a meandering morass that had me looking at my watch several times throughout its overlong two hour and twenty minute length.

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Shutter Island Paradise

Sam Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Aviator, Film Noir, Vertigo, Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese, After Hours, Horror, Alfred Hitchcock, Bringing Out the Dead, The Age of Innocence, The Departed, Taxi Driver, Dennis Lehane, Cape Fear, Leonardo Dicaprio, Michael Haneke, Entertainment News

Shutter Island pushes our conception of Scorsese to the brink. It tests him, proving that he has what it takes to navigate through the film's several time frames and planes of consciousness.

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Movie Review: Edge of Darkness

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Entourage, Edge of Darkness Movie Review, Martin Campbell, Ray Winstone, Hamlet, Mel Gibson, The Departed, Mad Max, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Entertainment News

Having done his penance in movie-star jail (as they say on Entourage), Mel Gibson comes back, doing what he does best: getting down, dirty and vengeful.

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The Golden Globes a Disappointment: Gervais was Mixed and Lots of Winners Weren't Prepared

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chloe Sevigny, Russnow, Martin Scorsese, Dexter, No Country for Old Men, The Aviator, Mo'Nique, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Atonement, Conan O'Brien, Jeff Bridges, Academy Award, The White Ribbon, James Cameron, Michael C. Hall, Inglorious Basterds, Tony Scott, Robert King, Sag, Chris Donovan, Sherlock Holmes, Golden Globe Awards, Nbc, Cecil B. DeMille, Oscar, Hbo, David Zucker, Up in the Air, Ridley Scott, Michael Russnow, Jason Reitman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Million Dollar Baby, Julianna Margulies, Golden Globes, Tonight Show, Big Love, The Good Wife, Crazy Heart, Ricky Gervais, Shutter Island, Sheldon Turner, Brooke Kennedy, The Departed, Julie & Julia, Showtime, Crash, Avatar, Germany, Grey Gardens, Sandra Bullock, Ram Productions International, Emmy Awards, Babel, Precious, Michelle King, Meryl Streep, Brokeback Mountain, Leonardo Dicaprio, Up, Christoph Waltz, The Blindside, WGA Strike, Robert Downey Jr., Golden Globes 2010, Cbs, Abc, Entertainment News

The Golden Globe awards are often the best of the awards shows, because they're more freewheeling and it appears no one really takes them seriously.

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Leo and Kate: They Didn't Go Down With The Ship

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Aviator, Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Titanic, Sense and Sensibility, Martin Scorsese, Best Movies by Farr, Infernal Affairs, Robert DeNiro, Ellen Barkin, Todd Field, Ang Lee, Gangs of New York, Jackie Earle Haley, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jennifer Connelly, The Departed, James Cameron, Revolutionary Road, Catch Me if You Can, Johnny Depp, Leonardo Dicaprio, Sam Mendes, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Entertainment News

Here's hoping Leo and Kate do many more films together. But for now, let's celebrate their careers to-date with a sampling of their more interesting, lesser-known work, both pre-and post-Titanic.

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An Even Insider Guide Than Your Insider's Guide to the Starz Denver Film Fest

Angora Holly Polo | Posted 05.25.2011

Reviewed: Official Rejection, Passenger Side, Truffe, The Vicious Kind, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Harmony and Me.

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9 Ways for Red Sox Parents to Explain David Ortiz and His PEDs

Patrick Sauer | Posted 05.25.2011

There's been a lot of "teachable moments" in Beantown this week and the revelation that Ortiz's name is on a list of players that was meant to be confidential with anonymous testing shouldn't be wasted.

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Transformers 2 barely beats Ice Age 3 while Public Enemies opens strong. The 4th of July, 2009 weekend box office in review.

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Due to the fact that the top two films (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) are literally tied at $42.5 million, I'm ignoring the rankings and just concentrating on the numbers.

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Movies for Grownups

Chuck Weinstock | Posted 05.25.2011

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Movies for grownups seem to be in trouble. You can't pick up a newspaper without reading another article about the new studio decree: They're not making adult dramas anymore.

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Best Movies By Farr: When Oscar Screws Up

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, The English Patient, The Exorcist, Tom Hanks, History of the Academy Awards, Julie Andrews, Milk, Fred MacMurray, John Wayne, The Wrestler Stanley Kubrick, As Good as It Gets, Capote, The Great Ziegfeld, Traffic, L.A. Confidential, Driving Miss Daisy, Dr. Strangelove, Fargo, High Noon, Million Dollar Baby, Joan Allen, My Left Foot, Around the World in Eighty Days, Slumdog Millionaire, The Academy Awards, The Sting, Rocky Balboa, Letters From Iwo Jima, Double Indemnity, Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison, Little Miss Sunshine, Ed Harris, Life Is Beautiful, Peter Finch, Shakespeare in Love, Charles Chaplin, James Dean, Giant, Crash, My Man Godfrey, Barbara Stanwyck, The Contender, Network, Imelda Staunton, Academy Awards, Titanic, Louis B. Mayer; Daryl Zanuck; Samuel L Goldwyn, Hotel Rwanda, The Apartment, The Departed, Peter Sellers, Pulp Fiction, Burt Lancaster, Gladiator, Vera Drake, Sean Penn, Modern Times, Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago, Field of Dreams, Billy Wilder, Pollock, Al Jolson, Forrest Gump, William Powell, John Travolta, Carole Lombard, Singin' in the Rain, Taxi Driver, Cecil B. DeMille, My Fair Lady, Jack Lemmon, The Searchers, The Hours, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News

2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.

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Rogue FBI Agent, John Connolly, Who Inspired "The Departed" Jailed For Killing Mob Witness

Daily Mail | Paul Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011

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A rogue FBI agent has been jailed for 40 years for killing a witness who was about to testify against the Mob. A judge told FBI agent John Connolly h...

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Revolutionary Road's Not So Revolutionary: But Thanks to Leo and Kate, It's Worth the Watch

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Revolutionary Road plods ever forward to the final fade out, but it still encompasses some wonderful moments and makes us look forward to the next pairing of Leo and Kate.

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The Best Scorsese Movies by Farr

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

More than any other director I can think of, Scorsese is totally, 100% committed to the art of cinema, the classic example of someone doing what he's best at and what he loves. This is a man gloriously consumed by film.

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