Casino

This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas - it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw - Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.

Written by Tad Dibbern DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu - IMDb.

Stars :

• Robert De Niro
• Sharon Stone
• Joe Pesci

Frankenstein

Dr. Frankenstein creates a simple creature from various body parts. The creature turns into a monster when Dr. Frankenstein rejects him. Sticking close to the original novel, Kenneth Branagh guides us through the story of Frankenstein's quest for knowledge and his creature's search for his "father".

Written by Colin Tinto cst@imdb.com - IMDb.

Stars :

• Robert De Niro
• Kenneth Branagh
• Helena Bonham Carter

The Godfather : Part II

The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Written by Keith Loh loh@sfu.ca - IMDb.

Stars :

• Al Pacino
• Robert De Niro
• Robert Duvall

• The Godfather
• The Godfather III

Heat

Hunters and their prey - Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunted by Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery / Homicide police division. A botched job puts Hanna onto their trail while they regroup and try to put together one last big 'retirement' score. Neil and Vincent are similar in many ways, including their troubled personal lives. At a crucial moment in his life, Neil disobeys the dictum taught to him long ago by his criminal mentor. "Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner" - as he falls in love. Thus the stage is set for the suspenseful ending....

Written by Tad Dibbern DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu - IMDb.

Stars :

• Al Pacino
• Robert De Niro
• Val Kilmer