Drive

There’s a lot to like about Drive: we have a hero, a villain, and a running time of about an hour and half.  That’s about as long as you really want to hang out with the people you meet in Drive-any longer and one of them will turn around and  kill you. The previews for Drive made it look like a film about a getaway driver, which is why some nutjob sued because there was not that much on the getaway driver front.  The opening scenes follow along as our hero drives a getaway car and does a pretty good…

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Kill The Irishman

Good old fashioned gangster movie about the glory days of the Mob in Cleveland and one Danny Greene who remains in thorn in their side for several years.   The cast has a lot of regulars from other mobster movies, with the noticeable exception of the lead, Ray Stevenson, who seems to have been in a lot of things I am unfamiliar with. Kill The Irishman is the story of tough guy and mob boss Danny Greene who had a knack for being around cars when they blew up and liked nothing better than beating people to death to while…

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