The Godfather 2 : The First Communion Party Summary and

Tldr: my wife saw almost 500 new movies this year.
Hello movies, it’s been a crazy year hasn’t it... Theaters are closed, production has (for the most part) ground to a halt and what was scheduled for release has moved to a streaming service or was delayed to next year or both. With the initial quarantine back in March starting I decided to take this unprecedented opportunity to give my wife the catch-up she desperately needed since she didn’t watch very many movies growing up.
A little backstory, she grew up in a home where many movies were forbidden for religious reasons and as a result just never became a cinephile. She saw many Disney movies and a few random others but missed a vast majority of cinemas best (and worst). On the flip side I grew up near a regular theater and a dollar theater and saw a ton of films as a kid and teen, I’d regularly go on weekends or skip school for a triple feature or catch the last showing of something every night of the week.
We’ve been together for almost 11 years now and she would go see anything and everything with me. All the Marvel movies, action comedies, sci fi, animation, whatever... but her movie knowledge is fairly contained within the last decade. So when I got laid off and she began working from home we decided to see how many new movies we could see during this Covid mess.
We defined “New” as anything we had both never seen or anything she had never seen and I hadn’t seen in 10+ years since we met. Since mid March we have managed to watch 500 movies and in the process learn a few things about her individual tastes and the kinds of movies we enjoy watching as a couple the most. I’m going to drop a list of everything we saw, after the list I’ll highlight a few hidden gems we both loved...
Dr No. - From Russia With Love - Thunderball - You Only Live Twice - Goldfinger - On Her Majesty’s Secret Service - Diamonds Are Forever Never Say Never Again - Live and Let Die - The Man With the Golden Gun - For Your Eyes Only - The Spy Who Loved Me - Moonraker - Octopussy - A View to a Kill - The living Daylights - License to Kill - Goldeneye - Tomorrow Never Dies - The World Is Not Enough - Die Another Day - Casino Royale - Quantum of Solace - Skyfall - Spectre - Enter the Dragon - Way of the Dragon - The Big Boss - Fist of Fury - Game of Death - Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth - Bruce Lee: The Legend - The Birds - Dora and the Lost City of Gold - The Brady Bunch Movie - A Very Brady Sequel - Planes, Trains, and Automobiles - Kingpin - Leave It To Beaver - Speed - Cuban Fury - Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - Weird Science - Keeping Up With the Joneses - Blades of Glory - Zoolander - Semi-Pro - So I Married An Axe Murderer - Disaster Movie - Oceans 11 - Dude, Where’s My Car? - Undercover Brother - Superstar - Zombieland - Men In Black: International - Snatch - Earth Girls Are Easy - Mystery Team - Once Upon A Time In Hollywood - Rush Hour - Miss Congeniality - Pitch Perfect 3 - There’s Something About Mary - Gone in 60 Seconds - Young Frankenstein - 300 - Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse - Wayne’s World - Wayne’s World 2 - Rocketman - Beverly Hills Ninja - Murder on the Orient Express - Friday - 9 to 5 - Drunken Master - The Naked Gun - Baywatch - Forbidden Planet - Baseketball - Hot Shots - Hot Shots: Part Deux - Anchors Aweigh - Mamma Mia - Tommy Boy - Clue - Dumb and Dumber - Monty Python’s Meaning of Life - Monty Python’s Life of Brian - Rango - Sausage Party - Broken Lizard’s Club Dredd - Flintstones - A Knights Tale - Stuck on You - Coneheads - Land of the Lost - Police Academy - Police Academy 2: The First Mission - A Night At the Roxbury - Holmes and Watson - Anchorman - Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues - Talladega Nights: Ballad of Ricky Bobby - Osmosis Jones - Venom - Sherlock Gnomes - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery - Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me - Austin Powers 3: Goldmember - Mystery Men - Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker - Escape From New York - Escape From LA - Napoleon Dynamite - Total Recall - Major Payne - Mars Attacks - Shaolin Soccer - Let’s Be Cops - The Great Outdoors - Smokey and the Bandit - Smokey and the Bandit - Kicking and Screaming - Kiss Me Kate - The Spy Who Dumped Me - The House - The Wiz - Shaolin vs Lama - Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Kung Fu Gold - Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 - Saturday Night Fever - 48 Hrs - Another 48 Hrs - Enter the Invincible Hero - Ip Man - Shaolin Drunk Fighter - The Great Wall - Smokin’ Aces - Down Periscope - The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear - Hero - The Towering Inferno - The Sitter - Isn’t It Romantic - Jackie Chan’s First Strike - The Dead Don’t Die - Shallow Hal - Kiss of the Dragon - Rapid Fire - The Invincible Armour - Innerspace - Date Movie - The Lost World (1960) - It Came From Outer Space (1953) - The Body Snatcher (1954) - Time Bandits - Bad Times at the El Royale - The Shadow - A Fantastic Fear of Everything - The Ladykillers - Flash Gordon - Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult - Robin Hood (2018) - Enemy of the State - Kill Bill Vol 1 - Kill Bill Vol 2 - Some Like It Hot - She’s Working Her Way Through College - Stir Crazy - Zombieland: Double Tap - Mystery House - Jet Li’s Fearless - Desperado - Ed TV - Ready Player One - Shaolin Kung Fu Mystagogue - Back to the Future - Back to the Future II - Back to the Future III - Tango & Cash - The Burbs - Sherlock Holmes: Terror by Night - Casablanca - Circle of Iron - Beavis and Butt-Head Do America - Missing in Action - Missing in Action 2: The Beginning - National Treasure - Shaolin Fighters Vs Ninja - Fast Times at Ridgemont High - The Running Man - Little Cigars - Legion of Iron - Green Dragon Inn - The Warriors - High Anxiety - Joe Versus the Volcano - Chinese Hercules - Predator - Predator 2 - Coming To America - Legend - Five Kung Fu Daredevil Heroes - Pretty In Pink - Timecop - The Castle of Fu Manchu - Gator - The Mystery of Mr Wong - Robocop - Double Teamed - The Forbidden Kingdom - Sharknado - Sharknado 2: The Second One - Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! - Meatballs - Young Guns - The Addams Family (2019) - I Come In Peace - Masters of the Universe - Conan the Barbarian - Demolition Man - Sudden Death - The Heat - I’m Gonna Git You Sucka - Mortal Kombat - Unleashed - Curse of the Swamp Creature - The Cabinet of Dr Caligari - Messages from Space - John Carpenter’s The Thing - Stroker Ace - Dragnet - Of Cooks and Kung Fu - To Be Or Not To Be - Silver Streak - The Hustle - Sixteen Candles - Young Tiger - The Spy Next Door - Half Baked - Funny Girl - Phase IV - Point Break - Tank Girl - Universal Soldier - Conan the Destroyer - Lethal Weapon - Gojira - The Deadly Silver Spear - Car Wash - Hard Target - Big Trouble in Little China - Blade - Looper - Five Fingers of Steel - Clash of the Titans (1981) - Blade II: Bloodhunt - Showdown in Little Tokyo - Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons - Enter the Fat Dragon - UHF - The Falcon in Danger - Roadhouse - The Falcon Strikes Back - The Falcon and the Co-Eds - The Falcon Out West - Jumanji: The Next Level - Cyborg - Masterminds -?The Falcon in Mexico - The Falcon in Hollywood - The Falcon in San Francisco - Blade: Trinity - The Falcon’s Alibi - The Falcon’s Adventure - Dick Tracy, Detective - The Ape - Big - What We Do In The Shadows - The Departed - Gemini Man - Crippled Avengers - Camp Takota - Dick Tracy vs Cueball - Brightburn - Kickboxer - The Five Venoms - The Weird Man - Hellbound - Assassins Creed - The Flag of Iron - Trolls: World Tour - Masked Avengers - Dick Tracy’s Dilemma - Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome - Upgrade - The Cabin in the Woods - True Lies - The Maltese Falcon - Last Action Hero - Espionage in Tangiers - The Man From U.N.C.L.E - Saving Silverman - Dead End - Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Showtime - The Dark Tower - Tomb Raider - Five Elements Ninjas - Cherry 2000 - Johnny Cool - Freaks - Phantom Raiders - Wonder Park - Running Scared - The Bad News Bears - Cat People - The Happytime Murders - Double Impact - Murder, My Sweet - Tammy and the T-Rex - The House With a Clock in Its Walls - War - Street Fighter - Ex Machina - Attack The Block - The Avenging Eagle - Jexi - Ghost - Bad Girls From Mars - Cook Off! - Alita: Battle Angel - The Blob - Invasion U.S.A. - Journey Into Fear - Sharknado: The Fourth Awakens - Barb Wire - Cloverfield - Searching - Death Warrant - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (‘78) - Critical Condition - Stan & Ollie - Mystery in Mexico - Slaughterhouse Rulez - The Adventures of Prince Achmed - The Crawling Eye - Beyond a Reasonable Doubt - Chinatown - The Fly - Stagecoach - The Replacement Killers - Ishtar - The Jesus Rolls - The Getaway - Sky Murder - Action Jackson - Snake Eyes - Sharknado 5: Global Swarming - The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time - G.I. Joe: The Movie - Bad Boys - Bad Boys II - Bad Boys For Life - Movie Struck - Bohemian Rhapsody - Spies in Disguise - Blacula - Zis Boom Bah - Rock ‘n’ Roll High School - Hong Kong Confidential - Judge Dredd - Dick Tracy (1990) - The Cool and The Crazy - Die Hard - Queen of Outer Space - In Bruges - Armored Car Robbery - Fargo - Not So Dumb - Old Dracula - Creature From the Black Lagoon - The Invisible Man - The Green Slime - Don’t Breathe - Tenet - Vampyr - The Haunting - Scream Blacula Scream - The Monster Squad - The Cat and the Canary - Halloweentown - Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge - Scoob - The Mummy (1959) - A Quiet Place - The Haunted Mansion - Halloweentown High - Mom’s Got A Date With A Vampire - Plan 9 From Outer Space - Trick ‘r’ Treat - Lemora: The Lady Dracula - Under Wraps - The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) - The Mad Monster (1942) - Carnival of Souls - Happy Death Day - The Craft - Scream - Rear Window - Yongary, Monster From the Deep - Snakes On A Plane - Cosmic Monsters - The Comedy of Terrors - Killers From Space - Friday the 13th - House on Haunted Hill - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension - Roald Dahl’s The Witches - The Lost Boys - Attack of the Puppet People - Ready or Not - Return to Halloweentown - Mr. Boogedy - Early Man - Howard the Duck - Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine - Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot - Good Boys - Sky High - We Bare Bears the Movie - Raising Arizona - Book Club - Ferdinand - Police Story - The Wolf of Wall Street - Casino Royale (‘67) - CB4 - Xanadu - Johnny Mnemonic - Slumber Party Massacre - Regular Show: The Movie - Our Man Flint - Psycho - Saturday the 14th - Journey to the Center of Time - Playing With Fire - Stuber - In Like Flint - Bill & Ted Face the Music - The Birdcage - The Big Sleep - Sonic the Hedgehog - Life Stinks - Dr Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs - Happy Death Day 2 U - Freejack - The Brain that Wouldn’t Die - Collision Course - Almost Heroes - The Trouble With Spies - North By Northwest - Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn - The Man Who Knew Too Much - Jingle All the Way - Mexican Spitfire - The 6th Day - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang - Deck the Halls - Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town - The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold - The Iron Giant - Elf - It Happened on 5th Avenue - Jack Frost - The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow - The Year Without a Santa Claus - Pinocchio’s Christmas - Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer - The Shop Around The Corner - Snow Day - Frozen 2 - Scrooged - The Polar Express - Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July - Rise of the Guardians - Trapped in Paradise - Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas - Jack Frost (‘98) - Christmas with the Kranks - Nestor, The Long Eared Christmas Donkey - Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch - Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - Wonder Woman 1984 - The Wizard - Small Foot - Mom and Dad Save the World
I’ve noticed that my wife seems to prefer old movies to new ones (overall). Some Like It Hot became an instant favorite for her... She also loved seeing things like Freaks or the Hitchcock films that get referenced a lot. She’s like Captain America pointing out all the references she gets now. We also found out she loves James Bond (mostly older ones), she doesn’t hate Will Farrell as much as she thought (or at all really), she loves bad/old/obscure movies, scary movies aren’t as scary as she thought they’d be, and that she’s basically Jennifer Anniston’s character from Office Space with her crazy love for old Kung Fu.
As far as random recommendations my wife wanted to shout out all the Falcon films, Our Man Flint and In Like Flint, and Tammy & The T-Rex. I wanted to shout out The Forbidden Kingdom, Dr Goldfoot and The Bikini Girls & Dr Goldfoot and The Girl Bombs, and Old Dracula. If anybody wants to just talk movies I always welcome
I can’t wait to expand her movie history in this coming year, there’s always plenty of bad obscure movies but now that she is into it it’s time to bring out the heavy hitters. Godfather, Jaws, Alien, Citizen Cane, Clockwork Orange, 2001 A Space Odyssey and more are still in the pipeline... If you’re still with me here I want to sincerely thank you for reading about our journey this year. I love you movies, and I hope y’all have a wonderfully cinematic 2021.

Best run in terms of anything
Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Reservoir Dogs.
Martin Scorsese: Goodfellas, Casino, Kundun, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence, and Bringing Out the Dead.
Robert Altman: The Player, Short Cuts, Prêt-à-Porter, Kansas City, The Gingerbread Man, Cookie's Fortune, and Vincent & Theo.
Robert Redford: Quiz Show, The Horse Whisperer, and A River Runs Through It.
The Coen Brothers: Fargo, Miller's Crossing, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, and The Hudsucker Proxy.
Wong Kar Wai: Chungking Express, Days of Being Wild, Ashes of Time, Fallen Angels, and Happy Together.
Paul Thomas Anderson: Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia.
David Fincher: Alien 3, Se7en, Fight Club, and The Game.
Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather 3, The Rainmaker, Jack, and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Steven Spielberg: Hook, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Amistad, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan.
Claire Dennis: Beau Travail, No Fear, No Die, I Can't Sleep, and Nénette and Boni.
Richard Linklater: Before Sunrise, Slacker, Dazed and Confused, The Newton Boys, and SubUrbia.
Abbas Kiarostami: Close Up, Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, Life, and Nothing More..., and Through the Olive Trees.
Harold Ramis: Groundhog Day, Analyze This, Stuart Saves His Family, and Multiplicity.
Michael Mann: Heat, The Last of the Mohicans, and The Insider.
Wes Anderson: Bottle Rocket and Rushmore.
Todd Haynes: Safe, Velvet Goldmine, and Poison.
The Wachowskis: The Matrix and Bound.
Emir Kusturica: Underground, Arizona Dream, and Black Cat, White Cat.
Krzysztof Kieślowski: Three Colours Trilogy and Double Life of Veronique
Steven Soderbergh: Out of Sight, Gray's Anatomy, Schizopolis, The Limey, Kafka, King of the Hill, and The Underneath.
Jonathan Demme: Philadelphia, The Silence of the Lambs, and Beloved.
Robert Zemeckis: Forrest Gump, Death Becomes Her, Contact, and Back to the Future Part III.
Zhang Yimou: To Live, Raise the Red Lantern, Not One Less, The Story of Qiu Ju, Ju Dou, Keep Cool, Shanghai Triad, The Road Home, and Zhang Yimou.
Terence Davies: The Long Day Closes and The Neon Bible.
Clint Eastwood: Unforgiven, The Bridges of Madison County, True Crime, Absolute Power, The Rookie, White Hunter Black Heart, In the Line of Fire, and A Perfect World.
Lars Von Trier: Breaking the Waves, Europa, and The Idiots.
Hirokazu Kore-eda: After Life, However..., Lessons from a Calf, August without Him, and Maborosi.
Gus Van Sant: My Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Good Will Hunting, Psycho, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.
David Lynch: Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Wild at Heart, and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Amy Heckerling: Clueless and Look Who's Talking Too.
Kathryn Bigelow: Point Blank, Strange Days, and Blue Steel.
Thomas Vinterberg: Festen, Last Round, The Boy Who Walked Backwards, and The Biggest Heroes.
Julie Dash: Daughters of the Dust, Funny Valentines, and Praise House.
Pedro Almodóvar: All About my Mother, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Live Flesh, High Heels, Kika, and The Flower of My Secret.
Jan De Bont: Speed 1 & 2, Twister, and The Haunting.
Oliver Stone: JFK, Nixon, Heaven & Earth, Natural Born Killers, The Doors, Any Given Sunday, and U Turn.
Rob Reiner: Misery, A Few Good Men, The American President, Ghosts of Mississippi, and The Story of Us.
Paul Verhoeven: Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers.
Danny Boyle: Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, and A Life Less Ordinary.
Tim Burton: Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Batman Returns, and Mars Attacks!.
Ang Lee: Pushing Hands, Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Eat Drink Man Woman, The Wedding Banquet, and Ride with the Devil.
Jane Campion: The Piano, An Angel at My Table, The Portrait of a Lady, and Holy Smoke!.
Frank Darabont: The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.
Lasse Hallström: What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Once Around, The Cider House Rules, and Something to Talk About.
Jim Jarmusch: Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Night on Earth, and Year of the Horse.
M. Night Shyamalan: The Sixth Sense, Praying with Anger, and Wide Awake.
Luc Besson: La Femme Nikita, Atlantis, Léon: The Professional, The Fifth Element, and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc.
Alan Parker: The Commitments, Evita, Come See the Paradise, Angela's Ashes, and The Road to Wellville.
Terry Gilliam: The Fisher King, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and 12 Monkeys.
Mike Leigh: Naked, Secrets and Lies, Topsy-Turvy, Life Is Sweet, and Career Girls.
Peter Jackson: Braindead, Heavenly Creatures, Forgotten Silver, and The Frighteners.
Martin Brest: Scent of a Woman, Meet Joe Black, and Josh and S.A.M.
Woody Allen: Everyone Says I Love You, Alice, Shadows and Fog, Husbands and Wives, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Mighty Aphrodite, Celebrity, Sweet and Lowdown, and Deconstructing Harry.
Ridley Scott: Thelma & Louise, G.I. Jane, White Squall, and 1492: Conquest of Paradise.
Bryan Singer: Apt Pupil, The Usual Suspects, and Public Access.
Kenneth Branagh: Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, In the Bleak Midwinter, Dead Again, and Peter's Friends.
Theodoros Angelopoulos: Eternity and a Day, Ulysses' Gaze, and The Suspended Step of the Stork.
Spike Lee: Crooklyn, Malcolm X, Girl 6, Summer of Sam, Get on the Bus, Clockers, He Got Game, Mo' Better Blues, and Jungle Fever.
Radu Mihaileanu: Trahir, Bonjour Antoine, and Train of Life.
Richard Attenborough: Grey Owl, In Love and War, Chaplin, and Shadowlands.
Tony Scott: The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, Crimson Tide, The Fan, Enemy of the State, Days of Thunder, and Revenge.
Eric Rohmer: L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque and Les Rendez-vous de Paris.
Jacques Rivette: Up, Down, Fragile, Secret Defense, La Belle Noiseuse, and Joan the Maid.
Edward Yang: A Brighter Summer Day, A Confucian Confusion, and Mahjong.
Michael Haneke: Benny's Video, Funny Games, and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance.
Farrelly brothers: Kingpin, Dumb and Dumber, and There's Something About Mary.
David Cronenberg : Naked Lunch, eXistenZ, Crash, and M. Butterfly.
Takeshi Kitano: Sonatine, Fireworks, Kikujiro and Kid's Return
Alex Cox: El Patrullero, Three Businessmen, The Winner, and Death and the Compass.
Atom Egoyan: Calendar, Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Felicia's Journey, and The Adjuster.
Manoel de Oliveira: The Divine Comedy, The Letter, Anxiety, Voyage to the Beginning of the World, Party, A Caixa, Abraham's Valley, The Convent, No, or the Vain Glory of Command, Day of Despair, and The Letter.
Dardenne brothers: Rosetta, Je pense à vous, and La Promesse
Jacques Rivette: La Belle Noiseuse, Top Secret, Up, Down, Fragile, and Joan the Maid.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Cure, Charisma, The Guard from Underground, Barren Illusions, and License to Live.
Jafar Panahi: The White Balloon and The Mirror.
Tsai Ming-liang: The River, Vive L'Amour, The Hole, and Rebels of the Neon God.
Hou Hsiao-hsien: The Puppetmaster, Flowers of Shanghai, Good Men, Good Women, and Goodbye South, Goodbye.
Leos Carax: Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, Sans Titre, and Pola X.
John Woo: Hard Boiled, Bullet in the Head, Hard Target, Once a Thief, Face/Off, and Broken Arrow.
Olivier Assayas: Cold Water, A New Life, Irma Vep, Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge..., Paris Awakens, Cinéma, de notre temps, Alice and Martin, Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung, Late August, Early September, and Filha da Mãe.
Roman Polanski: Bitter Moon, Death and the Maiden, and The Ninth Gate.
Brian De Palma: Carlito’s Way, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Raising Cain, Snake Eyes, and Mission: Impossible.
Werner Herzog: Lessons of Darkness, My Best Fiend, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, and Scream of Stone.
Cameron Crowe: Singles and Jerry Maguire.
Alexander Sokurov: The Stone, Whispering Pages, Mother and Son, Moloch, and The Second Circle.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf: Hello Cinema, Gabbeh, The Silence, The School the Wind Blew Away, Tales of Kish, A Moment of Innocence, Time of Love, Images from the Qajar Period, The Nights of Zayande-rood, Once Upon a Time, Cinema, Actor, and Stone and Glass
Hayao Miyazaki: Princess Mononoke, Porco Rosso, and On Your Mark.
Jean Luc Godard: Nouvelle Vague, JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December, New Wave, Hélas pour moi, For Ever Mozart, Germany Year 90 Nine Zero, Les Enfants jouent à la Russie, and Histoire(s) du Cinéma.
Alexander Payne: Election and Citizen Ruth.
James Foley: Glengarry Glen Ross, The Chamber, Two Bits, After Dark, My Sweet, The Corruptor, and Fear.
Whit Stillman: The Last Days of Disco, Metropolitan, and Barcelona.

Best run in terms of anything
Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Reservoir Dogs.
Martin Scorsese: Goodfellas, Casino, Kundun, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence, and Bringing Out the Dead.
Robert Altman: The Player, Short Cuts, Prêt-à-Porter, Kansas City, The Gingerbread Man, Cookie's Fortune, and Vincent & Theo.
Robert Redford: Quiz Show, The Horse Whisperer, and A River Runs Through It.
The Coen Brothers: Fargo, Miller's Crossing, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, and The Hudsucker Proxy.
Wong Kar Wai: Chungking Express, Days of Being Wild, Ashes of Time, Fallen Angels, and Happy Together.
Paul Thomas Anderson: Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia.
David Fincher: Alien 3, Se7en, Fight Club, and The Game.
Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather 3, The Rainmaker, Jack, and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Steven Spielberg: Hook, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Amistad, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan.
Claire Dennis: Beau Travail, No Fear, No Die, I Can't Sleep, and Nénette and Boni.
Richard Linklater: Before Sunrise, Slacker, Dazed and Confused, The Newton Boys, and SubUrbia.
Abbas Kiarostami: Close Up, Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, Life, and Nothing More..., and Through the Olive Trees.
Harold Ramis: Groundhog Day, Analyze This, Stuart Saves His Family, and Multiplicity.
Michael Mann: Heat, The Last of the Mohicans, and The Insider.
Wes Anderson: Bottle Rocket and Rushmore.
Todd Haynes: Safe, Velvet Goldmine, and Poison.
The Wachowskis: The Matrix and Bound.
Emir Kusturica: Underground, Arizona Dream, and Black Cat, White Cat.
Krzysztof Kieślowski: Three Colours Trilogy and Double Life of Veronique
Steven Soderbergh: Out of Sight, Gray's Anatomy, Schizopolis, The Limey, Kafka, King of the Hill, and The Underneath.
Jonathan Demme: Philadelphia, The Silence of the Lambs, and Beloved.
Robert Zemeckis: Forrest Gump, Death Becomes Her, Contact, and Back to the Future Part III.
Zhang Yimou: To Live, Raise the Red Lantern, Not One Less, The Story of Qiu Ju, Ju Dou, Keep Cool, Shanghai Triad, The Road Home, and Zhang Yimou.
Terence Davies: The Long Day Closes and The Neon Bible.
Clint Eastwood: Unforgiven, The Bridges of Madison County, True Crime, Absolute Power, The Rookie, White Hunter Black Heart, In the Line of Fire, and A Perfect World.
Lars Von Trier: Breaking the Waves, Europa, and The Idiots.
Hirokazu Kore-eda: After Life, However..., Lessons from a Calf, August without Him, and Maborosi.
Gus Van Sant: My Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Good Will Hunting, Psycho, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.
David Lynch: Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Wild at Heart, and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Amy Heckerling: Clueless and Look Who's Talking Too.
Kathryn Bigelow: Point Blank, Strange Days, and Blue Steel.
Thomas Vinterberg: Festen, Last Round, The Boy Who Walked Backwards, and The Biggest Heroes.
Julie Dash: Daughters of the Dust, Funny Valentines, and Praise House.
Pedro Almodóvar: All About my Mother, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Live Flesh, High Heels, Kika, and The Flower of My Secret.
Jan De Bont: Speed 1 & 2, Twister, and The Haunting.
Oliver Stone: JFK, Nixon, Heaven & Earth, Natural Born Killers, The Doors, Any Given Sunday, and U Turn.
Rob Reiner: Misery, A Few Good Men, The American President, Ghosts of Mississippi, and The Story of Us.
Paul Verhoeven: Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers.
Danny Boyle: Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, and A Life Less Ordinary.
Tim Burton: Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Batman Returns, and Mars Attacks!.
Ang Lee: Pushing Hands, Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Eat Drink Man Woman, The Wedding Banquet, and Ride with the Devil.
Jane Campion: The Piano, An Angel at My Table, The Portrait of a Lady, and Holy Smoke!.
Frank Darabont: The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.
Lasse Hallström: What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Once Around, The Cider House Rules, and Something to Talk About.
Jim Jarmusch: Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Night on Earth, and Year of the Horse.
M. Night Shyamalan: The Sixth Sense, Praying with Anger, and Wide Awake.
Luc Besson: La Femme Nikita, Atlantis, Léon: The Professional, The Fifth Element, and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc.
Alan Parker: The Commitments, Evita, Come See the Paradise, Angela's Ashes, and The Road to Wellville.
Terry Gilliam: The Fisher King, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and 12 Monkeys.
Mike Leigh: Naked, Secrets and Lies, Topsy-Turvy, Life Is Sweet, and Career Girls.
Peter Jackson: Braindead, Heavenly Creatures, Forgotten Silver, and The Frighteners.
Martin Brest: Scent of a Woman, Meet Joe Black, and Josh and S.A.M.
Woody Allen: Everyone Says I Love You, Alice, Shadows and Fog, Husbands and Wives, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Mighty Aphrodite, Celebrity, Sweet and Lowdown, and Deconstructing Harry.
Ridley Scott: Thelma & Louise, G.I. Jane, White Squall, and 1492: Conquest of Paradise.
Bryan Singer: Apt Pupil, The Usual Suspects, and Public Access.
Kenneth Branagh: Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, In the Bleak Midwinter, Dead Again, and Peter's Friends.
Theodoros Angelopoulos: Eternity and a Day, Ulysses' Gaze, and The Suspended Step of the Stork.
Spike Lee: Crooklyn, Malcolm X, Girl 6, Summer of Sam, Get on the Bus, Clockers, He Got Game, Mo' Better Blues, and Jungle Fever.
Radu Mihaileanu: Trahir, Bonjour Antoine, and Train of Life.
Richard Attenborough: Grey Owl, In Love and War, Chaplin, and Shadowlands.
Tony Scott: The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, Crimson Tide, The Fan, Enemy of the State, Days of Thunder, and Revenge.
Eric Rohmer: L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque and Les Rendez-vous de Paris.
Jacques Rivette: Up, Down, Fragile, Secret Defense, La Belle Noiseuse, and Joan the Maid.
Edward Yang: A Brighter Summer Day, A Confucian Confusion, and Mahjong.
Michael Haneke: Benny's Video, Funny Games, and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance.
Farrelly brothers: Kingpin, Dumb and Dumber, and There's Something About Mary.
David Cronenberg : Naked Lunch, eXistenZ, Crash, and M. Butterfly.
Takeshi Kitano: Sonatine, Fireworks, Kikujiro and Kid'sReturn
Alex Cox: El Patrullero, Three Businessmen, The Winner, and Death and the Compass.
Atom Egoyan: Calendar, Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Felicia's Journey, and The Adjuster.
Manoel de Oliveira: The Divine Comedy, The Letter, Anxiety, Voyage to the Beginning of the World, Party, A Caixa, Abraham's Valley, The Convent, No, or the Vain Glory of Command, Day of Despair, and The Letter.
Dardenne brothers: Rosetta, Je pense à vous, and La Promesse
Jacques Rivette: La Belle Noiseuse, Top Secret, Up, Down, Fragile, and Joan the Maid.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Cure, Charisma, The Guard from Underground, Barren Illusions, and License to Live.
Jafar Panahi: The White Balloon and The Mirror.
Tsai Ming-liang: The River, Vive L'Amour, The Hole, and Rebels of the Neon God.
Hou Hsiao-hsien: The Puppetmaster, Flowers of Shanghai, Good Men, Good Women, and Goodbye South, Goodbye.
Leos Carax: Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, Sans Titre, and Pola X.
John Woo: Hard Boiled, Bullet in the Head, Hard Target, Once a Thief, Face/Off, and Broken Arrow.
Olivier Assayas: Cold Water, A New Life, Irma Vep, Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge..., Paris Awakens, Cinéma, de notre temps, Alice and Martin, Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung, Late August, Early September, and Filha da Mãe.
Roman Polanski: Bitter Moon, Death and the Maiden, and The Ninth Gate.
Brian De Palma: Carlito’s Way, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Raising Cain, Snake Eyes, and Mission: Impossible.
Werner Herzog: Lessons of Darkness, My Best Fiend, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, and Scream of Stone.
Cameron Crowe: Singles and Jerry Maguire.
Alexander Sokurov: The Stone, Whispering Pages, Mother and Son, Moloch, and The Second Circle.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf: Hello Cinema, Gabbeh, The Silence, The School the Wind Blew Away, Tales of Kish, A Moment of Innocence, Time of Love, Images from the Qajar Period, The Nights of Zayande-rood, Once Upon a Time, Cinema, Actor, and Stone and Glass
Hayao Miyazaki: Princess Mononoke, Porco Rosso, and On Your Mark.
Jean Luc Godard: Nouvelle Vague, JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December, New Wave, Hélas pour moi, For Ever Mozart, Germany Year 90 Nine Zero, Les Enfants jouent à la Russie, and Histoire(s) du Cinéma.
Alexander Payne: Election and Citizen Ruth.
James Foley: Glengarry Glen Ross, The Chamber, The Corruptor, Two Bits, After Dark, My Sweet, and Fear.
James Mangold: Heavy, Cop Land, and Girl, Interrupted.
Whit Stillman: The Last Days of Disco, Metropolitan, and Barcelona.

Scratch cards, also known as scratches, are one of the simplest games of chance around . With them everything is a matter of luck. It is a very easy game of chance and with which you can win big prizes playing with very little money . Everyone has ever played these types of cards: they are usually given as promotional material for some brands and often they also serve to raise charity funds. The mechanism of these is very simple, it consists of scratching with a coin the indicated areas of a card. Scratching them will reveal certain images. To win you will have to get 3 or more images of the same type or a special combination of these. Its operation is very simple but in this guide we will explain step by step how to play.
With the advent of the Internet, scratch cards have also jumped into the digital sphere . With this change, the currency has stopped being physical and has been replaced by a virtual currency or a simple mouse click, in addition the game has become somewhat more sophisticated. Today, it is common to find this type of game in online casinos and online gaming platforms. In fact, there are portals that have specialized in scratch cards . This is the case of Scratchmania, where you can find a great variety of scratches of different formats and themes. For example, scratch cards related to animals are very popular.
However, one of the disadvantages for Spanish players is that the offer of scratch cards available in secure casinos (those licensed by the DGOJ) is quite limited.
Scratch Cards Online - Types and How to Play
Scratch cards are a very simple game, although depending on the software provider that developed them there may be some variations between them. In this article in the form of a guide we wanted to classify them by type to later explain in a practical way and with examples how to play the different types of slot machines that we can find.
Depending on their design, we can classify online scratch cards into two main types :

• Online scratch cards similar to traditional ones
• Online scratch cards similar to slots

Depending on how to get the prizes, we can classify the scratch cards into two other large groups :

• Scratch cards with prizes associated with rows
• Scratch cards with prizes associated with symbols

We will build on this classification to explain with real examples how to play the different types of scratch cards online.
1. Scratch cards similar to the traditional ones
Scratch Cards Guide - Crazy Fruits
These types of games are the ones that most resemble traditional scratch cards , that is, cardboard. A good example to explain them is the game Crazy Fruits, developed by the provider Gamesys.
As in the traditional game, you will have to go to a store to buy your cards. In this case it will not be a physical store (don't worry), but you will only have to go to the 'scratch card store' of the online casino . In this store you will find the different cards available and their prices.
You can purchase the same number of cards as you need! Its operation is very simple. You will only have to get 3 icons of the same type to win.
2. Scratch Cards similar to slot machines
Scratch Cards Guide - Star Raiders
Not all scracht cards are that simple. The proof of this is the scratch cards of this second group. These differ from the rest by their similarity to online slots . They have a much more elaborate design and graphics and can sometimes also include videos and animations. In addition, some of them also have wild symbols and scatter symbols , which will allow you to increase your winnings.
The example we have chosen to represent this second type is the Star Raiders card, developed by the provider Pariplay. However, many software companies have similar creations. Among the best known we can highlight Microgaming, Playtech or NextGen.
The operation of this game is very similar to the previous one. However, this time you will not have to go to a store to buy your card and the price of this card will not be fixed either. In this case, you can choose the amount of money you want to play each time and the prizes will vary depending on the bet made. Of course, as in the previous example, to win you will need to obtain 3 icons of the same type anywhere on the card.
3. Scratch Cards with prizes associated with the number of symbols
The two examples that we have seen above belong to the group of scratch cards where the prizes are associated with a number of symbols of the same type, without these having to occupy a certain position. To win, you only need X symbols of the same type to appear on the screen, no matter where . Another good example of this type of card is The Godfather game, developed by the provider GextGen.
In The Godfather scratch card you will have to choose how much money you want to play each time and the prizes will vary depending on the amount wagered. As we can see, the position of the symbols does not influence the prize at all , since in this type of cards only the number matters.
4. Scratch Cards with prizes associated with the ranks
In this type of Scratch Cards, each row will be associated with a prize or win . Next we will focus on the Scratch King slot to make a brief explanation of its operation.
The Scratch King Game is made up of 4 rows: the first 3 hide 5 different images and the last row is made up of 3 treasure chests. Each of the rows is associated with a prize, which will change with each spin. The award will be visible in each of the boxes to the right of the rows.
Wild symbols may appear in this game that will be replaced by other icons to help you complete the winning combination. If you get 4 equal symbols, your prize will be multiplied x3 and if you get 5 equal icons the prize will be multiplied x5. In addition to wilds, you can also enjoy scatter symbols. In this game the scatter symbols are represented by keys. These keys will be used to open the chests located at the bottom of the screen. You will need to get 3 keys in the same roll to open the treasure chests and win the prize associated with this last row.
5. Scratch Cards with progressive jackpots or jackpots
Finally, we couldn't finish this article without first mentioning jackpot scratch cards . As in slots, there are some scratch cards that are associated with a large jackpot or progressive jackpot , it grows as users play and only stops when a player wins the prize. Then you start over from scratch. These types of scratch cards have an added thrill, because you never know who will be the lucky one to take home the grand prize.

1930-Birth of Xavier's mother, Geneviève DDL in Versailles
1931-birth of xavier's father, Hubert DDL in Senlis
1955-they get married and settle in Cannes. Hubert is an aeronautical engineer.In September 1957,The couple had their first child, Véronique. But Geneviève, who has always been fragile and introvert, could not bear the distance from her family wanted to return to Versailles to be closer to her parents. They settled at 50 rue du Maréchal-Foch.
1960The mother of the murderer had created a prayer group called ′′ Philadelphia ′′.
January 20 1960-birth of Xavier DDL
1966-Birth of Christine DDL.
1972-Hubert starts an affair with his secretary, Catherine, and left home around 1972 .
1974-Xavier and Emmanuel Teneur meet for the first time on island Brehat. Emmanuel is 14 and Xavier is 13.
In late 70s both of them will become part of a prayer group Xavier's mother founded.
1979-
-Xavier's father, Hubert goes to Ivory Coast with his mistress.
-Xavier is doing small jobs, handling etc. To soon he wants to be a husband and a father, he reconnects with Agnes Hodanger a girl from good family he met in High School.
1982-
-Agnes and Xavier get engaged at ages 20 and 21. During the summer of his engagement Xavier meets a german girl, Claudia. Tall, blonde a camping model. He falls in love with her and leaves Agnes. Agnes returns to Versailles alone meanwhile Xavier travels between Hanover and Versaiiles.
Agnes was miserable first the break up with Xavier, later her mother's cancer and death. Agnes focuses on her job as typing secretary and devotes her free time to her father and brothers. To forget about Xavier she focuses on a new man, a waiter working in a bar not far away from her home, she gets pregnant and gives birth to a boy, Arthur in July 1990. The waiter will not accept the kid as his and will leave her.
Meanwhile Xavier goes to the south, first he goes to Aix-en-Provence. He is finally free. He joined Véronique who lives in Draguignan. Emmanuel Teneur is of course with him. He was hired as a commercial by Société des fertilisers Monnot (SEM), where he sold garden equipment for the PACA region. That's where he meets Michel Retif, also commercial. Michel is opposite of Emmanuel. Adventurers, womanizer,outgoing. They become best friends quickly. They both love USA.
1989-Xavier is fired from SEM. He is single and free. Him and Michel are going to the USA. Finally they will go to America 3 times. They apparently visited 48 out of 50 states. First trip is founded by their unemployment benefit. For the following, they invent a combine. When they return to France, they bring back American vehicles, those Cadillac's and Ford Mustang's which always fascinated Xavier, to resell them with a significant margin. Both friends plan to extend the adventure, this time in New Caledonia, where Xavier's other cousin works as a banker for Crédit Agricole. And then one day. Xavier suddenly announces to Michel that he cancels everything. Passing through Versailles, he saw Agnes again. This one is pregnant with a baby boy. Xavier leaves his freedom and plans and decides to go back to France to take care of pregnant Agnes.
They will be married in 1992 (or September 1991). Emmanuel Teneur becomes a godfather of couples first child, Thomas.
1994-Birth of Anne.
1995-The apocalypse that Xavier's mother was prophesying. Christine sleeps with every single male member of the prayer group. After the apocalypse doesn't happen. Xavier's older sister leaves France.
July 4th 1995-ex member of prayer group sends documents about prayer group to a lawyer of Montpellier.
1997-Birth of Benoit.
1998-
-Agnès having lost both parents inherits 3,000,000 Francs, ie 400,000 € (cash, securities, real estates)
-Family vacations in the USA.
-Start of the Commercial Route.
-Rent of a pretty villa with swimming pool in Pornic.
2002
-The family moved to the USA. ( children enrolled in school, Nov 2002 Aug 2003 the family lives at the Little Inn by the Sea Motel, LAUDERDALE usa)
2003-
Family moves to Nantes.
2004-
Beginning of financial problems. Agnes' inheritance is slowly finishing.
Agnes is gaining lots of weight. She also starts a romance with Michel. She complains on online forums about her marriage etc.
Ending of the year is a spiral of failures for Xavier.
2005-
Agnes and Xavier seperate in July one of the reason was Agnes refusing to give Xavier the rest of her money. Also Xavier punches(?) Arthur . Agnes fills a complain to the police. She loses 20 kilograms (around 44 pounds)
March 2005- Massage between Emmanuel and Xavier ''captain and his sailboat returned to the boat''(after the investigation Emmanuel says that Xavier was the one who knew where his will is)
October 2005-Xavier comes back home to the family.
December 2005- Agnes still has an affair with Xavier's friend. Xavier writes an open letter to the family, that makes him look innocent, he didn't cheat, he wasn't violent etc. Xavier also writes resentment to Michel.
2006
January-Xavier puts Agnes under pressure and she confesses to having an affair. She said that this thing was only virtual.
Xavier starts trio with Michel. He also starts humiliating Agnes even more because she decided to go back to traditional church.
22 Feb. 2006-Agnes' e-mail to Claudia “you are the only girl Xav really loved a long time after me".
March 17 xddl “hello pigs” to Agnès and MR… how to measure penis. ((His is obviously competent!))
DEC 25, 2006 XAV writes about his loss of faith. While Agnes reconnects with the traditional Church. Big disagreement.
2007
Xav lists the faults of Agnes ("totally impatient and intolerant of everyone" "Arthur Anne and him in particular").
MARCH 15, 2007 XAV writes to Agnès: "I would spend my days cursing you () and suspecting you"
APRIL 24, 2007 Agnès believes XAV is still under the thumb of his mother, he reassures her.
Agnès worried about the hold of CDDL and GDDL on Xav talks about it to her prayer group in Nantes.
August 2007- Xavier basically robs Emmanuel of 6000 euros and his family jewelry.
To his ex-mistress he had said: "if you give me 1,000,000 I will leave everything"
2008
Agnes is obese and depressed. Her therapist tells her to divorce her husband.
Xavier writes to Vero about how he lost his faith. He fills files / his reflections, exegesis etc. ((His mother Geneviève has a whole cupboard full of Files with articles etc. on ALL kinds of SUBJECTS)).
2009
Agnes working part-time: 500 Euros per month AGNES Ericksonian therapy, homeopathy, osteopath "visionary of the brain" ... she joins several prayer groups
February 2009, xddl finds Catherine V
APRIL 21, meeting CV, relationship begins, romantic weekend, Relais et Chateaux, xav pays.
from MAY xav talks about his company, to convince her / his CRYSTAL project, CV accountants say: not viable
CV nevertheless yields 50,000 EUROS on JUNE 3, 2009, cashed on June 9.
- July, CV presents Xavier to her friends / birthdays. Dinner with her brother.
50,000 cashed on JUNE 9, June 12 golf cabriolet gift to AGNES, and tour of the grand dukes ALONE in cities with casinos, Deauville, La Baule, Dinard (August), xddl writes checks to all creditors. At the end of 2009, nothing remains of the 50,000. He must repay the 50,000 on July 3, 2010. In June he tries to soften it "drop of water for you". End of summer CV confides in friends. OCTOBER XAV ACKNOWLEDGES HAVING NOTHING INVESTED, he just used money to repay his debts. And paid for the hotel when they were together! With the mistress's money! CV cuts her contact with him.
Philadelphia reveals the miracle of Saint Christ. CDDL: “Jesus wants us to ACT, Jesus' next offensive will be through the internet!” -> Xav writes on CC* every night ...
-Dec 27, 2009 computer distribution of the "Libretto of St Christ."
Xavier is banned on CC. He creates another account.
2nd report against the sect, reveals that the group is still active, renewed activity for years, Bertram took over from his father as chief financial officer, pays the gddl bills. XDDL then approaches the group, also registered on CC, still interested in THEOLOGY, consults Bertram by email. AGNES worried / grip of gddl on xddl, FEAR.
2010
January 2010 last meeting XDDL CV. She talks about a lawyer ...
Letter to his mistress Catherine. While he has to repay Catherine's loan: 50,000, suicide blackmail letter: his "current life" will end in a few months if he does not find 25,000 immediately.
04/29/2010-Xddl connects to Cité Catholique to discuss the need for sacrifices, and revives the conversation for a month.
Xddl to CV, talks about "burning the family", to the lawyer: "bankruptcy, insolvent, homeless soon"
-05/07/2010-Visit of a bailiff mandated by the mistress of Xddl (Catherine), with a view to foreclosure on her income. He was due to repay on July 3.
Family vacations near Montpellier at MR (except Arthur).
end of August / September: (Letter from Xddl to Michel and Emmanuel evoking individual or “collective” suicide already mentioned in the letter to his mistress of January 14, 2010.And instructions for afterwards (Dispositions.doc). Letter titled: "Ligonnès family issues and perspectives (absence of ...)"
September 17th-Anne takes letter from bailiff she's still in her pj's.
NOV 10 2010 conversation on FB Anne + Agnès // death "the most perfect form of existence" according to Agnès.
(Agnès on antidepressants and anxiolytics for several months at the time of her death, but no suicidal tendency, projects, commitments, ex. full-time job from Sept 2011)
2011
At the start of 2011, a big contract ... did not happen.
20/01/2011
Death of the Count of Hubert Dupont de Ligonnès. (Heart attack. Xav withdraws up to 6,700 euros from his father's accounts ). End of January Father's rifle found, reconstituted, revised and repaired by the director of TIR. XAV DRINKS A LOT!
February
Xddl applies for a shooting license
Xavier takes his family for farewell visits to the family.
February 25 a friend commits suicide at 53 / debt / professional failure, 5 children, Xav very shocked.
March
1 month before murders, husband of a friend of vddl who committed suicide, Baron, Versailles, 53 years old, 5 children, debts / model family in vddl's eyes. Xddl: "it's abominable, monster, to leave children and wife ALIVE, with nothing to live on", 3 years later the wife also dies at 53 years old.
12/03/2011
- Xav and Benoit at funeral mass in La Rochelle, 1 witness will go on June 4 and 21 to testify to the police // child trembling in all his limbs, crying a lot, Xav shows him stained glass resurrection, crying which redoubles, the witness wants give water to B. refusal of Xav!
Purchase of silencer and ammunition
March Emmanuel Teneur: xav shoots in his garden / balloon, with the 22 silenced, Emmanuel tries out the weapon ((lies to the police when he claims to have never seen the weapon in operation)).
03/15/2011 Xav / family / Versailles: "farewell" visit,
MARCH 2011 xddl recontacts Catherine R, see you in Chamonix week of 12/4? Coincidence, “xddl” saw Nice car rental company where a “Catherine R” rented 1 car… Disambiguation. CR, strange message on 5/20, from a stranger, Philippe Steiner, profile deleted before his reply
-26/03/2011
Xddl prints Non-Pledge Certificates for Agnès Golf and Arthur's Xantia.
-31/03/2011
Brigitte L / prayer group, sees Agnès for the last time, very anxious. Heavy threats. Nothing about Xav's possible suicidal tendency.
Agnès asked to pray for them // threats received, the witness is thinking of CDDL and GDDL !
Apparently in October 2011 someone complained of having discovered in the file these threats, which forced Agnès to change phone number and email.
April 2011
-Purchase of cement, rubble bags, spade. SO1: Orvault Castorama: 2 10KG prompt cement bags, 2 gray adhesive rolls, 12 extra reinforced 50L rubble bags, a Lorraine hoe, a spade)
Emmanuel sees Xddl in the company of his 2 sons at the shooting range for the last time, an appointment taken for baptism of shooting offered by E, scheduled for April 9.
-Xddl sends 1 second letter to his mistress Catherine V: personal letter / Australia, he accuses her of having screwed up their relationship, "her money" makes her paranoid, (cf. letter of contrition from Agnes, same spirit) "no one will find me". ((Catherine received this final letter from Xavier on 9 April 2011, which means it must have been posted 3 or 4 Apr. ??
2/04/2011 Saturday
-Purchase of quicklime by xddl (SO1 4 bags, Xav also buys stamps and fills up GASOLINE).
Benoit spends the night at his friends house, comes back in the morning for the mass.
Agnès / conference / autism 9 am-5:30pm in St Herblain, which contradicts the thesis of preparations for the big trip ((Reality of this presence of Agnes at this conference is doubtful ??))
7:07 p.m. to 7:50 p.m. ET calls xddl 5 times, talked together 43 minutes
Sunday
ET calls xddl twice which does not respond to tel
Arthur ... at the pizzeria from 11 a.m. to 2:55 p.m
(Arthur told his friends he won't be available during weekend. Anne said to her friends something similar, on 5th of April Thomas supposedly received a text massage from his mother.For CDDL a proof that Agnes is alive! Because Xav on phone at the same time .... - as if he couldn't answer a text message on another phone ...))
4 p.m. return of Agnès and Anne ((return from where ??))
5pm Thomas goes back to Anger.
That night family goes to cinema and restaurant.
21st april the bodies are found.
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I translated some points from this facebook group post . There is so much more points and information in there i just translated the ones that stuck to me the most. Feel free to point any mistakes i used a translator so some of the translations might be weird. I tried my best to correct them.
CC*-cite catolique

Recreational cannabis is not legal yet, but many Canadians are taking advantage of it to make a fortune. At least 77 of them have accumulated millions of dollars in just a few months thanks to their investments in the industry, according to data compiled by our Investigation Bureau.
"I knew the pot was a good investment, but no one in the community thought it would pay so much," says Chuck Rifici, head of the Cannabis Wheaton investment fund and former chief financial officer of the Liberal Party of Canada. (PLC).
At 43, the one who is described as the "pot godfather" in Canada sits on a personal fortune that he himself estimates to "more than 100 million", including $ 47.7 million in potato producer shares , according to public financial documents.
He owns a Ferrari 458 red and a Tesla S.
It all started with a first investment of $ 70 in shares in his company Tweed, a pot producer (now Canopy Growth). "I thought I was rich when I made my first $ 500,000," jokes the Ottawa businessman.
Mr. Rifici said today that he continues to work only "for pleasure". "It's a lot less stressful."
Big risks
On the other side of the Ottawa River in Gatineau, Sébastien St-Louis, 34, has a fortune of $ 15.4 million. His company founded in 2013, Hydropothecary, is valued at $ 660 million on the stock market.
The path to get there was not easy. "I almost went broke at least four times. My credit card was used up to $ 30,000.
Stories like that of Rifici and Saint-Louis, who have become millionaires before even a single gram of recreational pot is sold legally, are in the dozens of industries.
Establishing the list of Millionaire Canadians in the pot helps to make the following observations:
The vast majority, 58% (45 out of 77), are from Ontario. Only 4 come from Quebec (5%). Out of 77 millionaires, there are only three women. Wealth is extremely concentrated Speculative bubble ?
The stock market value of pot companies exploded last year as a result of Trudeau government announcements on the upcoming legalization in 2018.
New Brunswicker Denis Arsenault bought a medical cannabis producer in 2014 for $ 1.7 million. Its acquisition, the company Organigram, is worth half a billion dollars today. "It was like going to the casino when I invested in it, at first," he laughs.
Although Canadians are still divided over the legalization of cannabis and the banks are very reluctant to invest in this industry, investors are now jostling to the gates to the point where there is fear of a speculative bubble.
According to several experts, the current frenzy is similar to the tech bubble in the late 1990s, because they are extremely volatile.
"There are companies that are not in cannabis, just saying that they are interested in the industry and boom, their shares are tripling," says portfolio management analyst Ken Lester, president of Lester Asset Management.

• With the collaboration of Marie-Christine Trottier and Andrea Valeria

They roll on gold thanks to their investments in the pot
THE GODFATHER OF THE POT
PHOTO ANNABELLE BLAIS Chuck Rifici has inherited the nickname "godfather" of the pot industry. And for good reason, this 43-year-old Franco-Ontarian estimates his fortune to more than $ 100 million (including at least $ 47.7 million in shares of pot producers, according to public financial documents).
He has two characteristics common to many millionaires in this industry: he is an entrepreneur and he has political connections, particularly with the Liberal Party of Canada (PLC).
In 2013, Mr. Rifici co-founded Tweed, now Canopy Growth, Canada's largest pot company.
Since 2017, he has been CEO of Cannabis Wheaton, an investment firm in pot companies, including producers or manufacturers of accessories. Wheaton has about fifteen partnerships, a huge spider web.
Two ex of the PLC
In parallel, the businessman was also CFO of the PLC from 2011 to 2016.
"Being treasurer of the PLC, it gives credibility when you meet investors for pot," he says. Wheaton's vice president of external affairs, Sarah Bain, was also vice president of communications for the LPC from 2010 to 2013.
Mr. Rifici even believes that the controversy provoked by this situation has helped him to talk about his businesses. "All press is good press," he says.
But this has exacerbated tensions between him and his partner Bruce Linton and Rifici left Tweed in 2014 (see other text).
He is now investing mainly in accessories such as vape. "I believe the future of this industry will be in these value-added products," he says. It's important to have a distribution and production network, but in a Starbuck coffee, it's not the coffee bean that pays the most, "he says.
THE SOCIALIST IN JAGUAR
PIERRE-PAUL POULIN PICTURES Wearing a three-piece suit and cell phone in hand, Bruce Linton, CEO of Canopy Growth, is the image of the successful businessman.
"Because I sell cannabis, people always expect to see a guy in a faded T-shirt," he jokes.
Mr. Linton now heads one of the largest cannabis producers in Canada. He first founded Tweed in 2013 (then joined Canopy Growth) with Chuck Rifici, former CFO of the Liberal Party of Canada.
When asked why there are so many Liberals in the industry, he replies, "I do not know why there are a lot of Liberals in the industry. I'm not. You know what I am? I am a socialist who likes to ride in Jaguar. "
And he has the means to pay for luxury cars. On paper, Mr. Linton's fortune is valued at more than $ 67 million.
Potty drink
In five years, Canopy Growth has acquired 13 cannabis production sites in eight Canadian provinces, including two in Quebec. The company has also developed partnerships to export or cultivate with Australia, Brazil, Germany, Jamaica, Denmark and Chile.
Bruce Linton does not want to stop there. He has a clear vision for the future: to sell a cannabis drink. Canopy has signed an agreement this fall with Constellation, which sells Corona beers.
Linton is already following in the footsteps of Seagram distiller Bronfman family, who made a fortune with alcohol at the end of the prohibition.
"I want to provide a bottle-like format with 12-13% that produces effects after 7 minutes," he says. This is the socially accepted way to be impaired. "
NOT YET MILLIONAIRES, BUT ALMOST
MARTIN ALARIE PHOTO Quebecker Philippe Depault is not yet a millionaire of the pot, but he is about to succeed.
The 26-year-old entrepreneur (left) and his partner Alexandre Lalancette, 23 years old (right) have just sold their cannabis accessories business, Maïtri, for $ 550,000 in addition to an amount of up to 1.2 M $ to be paid to the performance.
Pretty surprising when we know that Maïtri made his first sale in July 2017 only.
Mr. Depault was a cyclist with the Canadian team dreaming of the Olympics until fibromyalgia changed his life in 2013.
No medicine was able to relieve him, except cannabis. He then gave himself the mission to fight against the stigmatization of consumers.
Soon more Quebeckers?
The chemical engineering student started by blogging in the summer of 2016. Then in March 2017, he joined Mr. Lalancette to create neatly designed cannabis accessories with Quebec materials.
"Cannabis is still associated with stoners ," he says. But around me, almost everyone uses cannabis, either once a day or once a year. They are engineers, doctors, lawyers. It was to this clientele that he wanted to address himself. An investor has injected from $ 30,000 to $ 100,000, says Mr. Depault. And in July, the company was about to open a round of financing when Hiku, which owns the DOJA pot producer, made an offer to buy. The agreement was concluded in February.
Mr. Depault hopes to see more Quebeckers in the industry. "We start to feel the wave. "
A QUEBECER WHO SEES BIG
PHOTO ANNABELLE BLAIS When Sébastien St-Louis was younger, his idol was not a hockey player, but Alain Bouchard, the founder of Couche-Tard.
"It's the biggest company in terms of sales in Canada and it [Mr. Bouchard] started with only one store in Quebec. I recognize myself a lot in this story, "he says.
The 34-year-old is describing himself as an entrepreneur who seized the business opportunity of medical cannabis in 2013.
His firm, Hydropothecary, based in Gatineau, is the first licensed pot producer in Quebec. Recently, the company won an agreement to supply 22,000 kg to the Quebec Cannabis Company, the SAQ subsidiary that will market the substance.
With a market capitalization of $ 660,000 million for Hydropothecary, Sébastien St-Louis is sitting on a fortune of more than $ 15.4 million.
But this son of teacher parents has not changed his lifestyle so much, except that he travels more.
"I drove in Grand Am for 12 years. I changed to a 2012 Acura, he says. A Ferrari is not my style. "
Thanks to the family
It must be said that the path of the producer was fraught with difficulties and that the bankruptcy was avoided more than once.
At 16, he already had his own 3D simulation company and he was investing in real estate. With a master's degree in finance from the Université du Québec à Montréal, he later worked at the Business Development Bank of Canada.
In June 2013, at age 29, his friend Maxime Cyr, who worked for Health Canada, told him that the federal government would allow private producers to sell medical cannabis. Sébastien St-Louis had never seen a pot plant before, but he smelled the potential.
He embarked on the project his brother-in-law Adam Miron, a political enthusiast who became involved with the Liberal Party of Canada until 2009.
Unable to get finance from the banks, the two men appealed to friends and family for a first round of private funding in 2013. "With $ 10,000, we could put $ 1.5 million," he said. His parents even mortgaged their home to invest $ 100,000.
"If it did not work, I went bankrupt and lost my house, but there was no longer a couch of friends I could have slept on because I would have lost money to all those I knew, "he says.
Light appeared at the end of the tunnel when Health Canada authorized the company to sell medical pot in 2015.
Big names on the board
In 2016, he approached large families in Quebec looking for partners. Vincent Chiara, a Montreal businessman close to the Saputo family, has agreed to invest several millions in the adventure. He currently sits on the Board and his fortune in the company is valued at $ 25.5 million.
Sébastien St-Louis is also very proud to say that Nathalie Bourque, who serves on Couche-Tard's Board of Directors, has joined Hydropothecary's board since the fall. The convenience store chain has already announced that it wants to sell marijuana.
The boss of Hydropothecary believes that in the near future, there will remain only two or three companies that will be multinational cannabis. "I intend to be a leader from our platform in Quebec," he says.
MUSIC AND POT FOR THE TRAGICALLY HIP
PHOTO COURTESY DAVID BASTEDO Music and cannabis have always been closely linked. Newstrike understands it. For almost a year now, the company that markets Up Cannabis, a pot producer in Ontario, has developed a partnership with The Tragically Hip.
The Canadian rock band is a shareholder in the company and is involved in important marketing decisions.
Their managers, Bernie Breen and Patrick Sambrook, also sit on the company's advisory board. Up Cannabis can, for example, use the band's songs to promote its products or to name its pot varieties.
It is worth $ 20.9 million
"We've approached them because they can help us create a brand and they represent Canada," says Jay Wilgar, CEO of Newstrike.
The latter made a fortune with a wind energy start-up he founded in the early 2000s and sold it to the French multinational GDF Suez in 2010.
In 2013, he launched into cannabis by investing 1.5 million with a partner. Mr. Wilgar is worth about $ 20.9 million today. The Hips' fortune in the business is at least $ 2.2 million
"We did not expect such a large and fast growth in the last year, it's amazing," he says.
The strategy of Up Cannabis is to address Mr. Mrs. Everybody, like the Hips. The company will focus on the recreational and has no medical patient.
MORE PROFITABLE THAN CUCUMBERS
PHOTO COURTESY APHRIA For John Cervini, growing cannabis was a natural extension of his vegetable growing career in Ontario.
"I am the fourth generation of farmers. For 23 years, I ran the family business with my brother, "he says. The company was growing well, but John preferred to leave because the two brothers had different visions.
His friend Cole Cacciavillani, an industrial engineer in agriculture, told him about cannabis in August 2013. The company, Aphria, is one of six producers who signed an agreement to supply Quebec with cannabis through the subsidiary of the SAQ.
"As a farmer, we knew we had a good base for marijuana," says Cervini. It is our specialty to grow plants, we have experience in logistics and large-scale supply, "he says.
He seems to have won his bet. The best-performing stock on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2017 was Aphria, which rose 271%. The fortune of the two founders today stands at more than $ 200 million.
Thanks to Google translation http://www.journaldequebec.com/2018/03/03/au-moins-77-canadiens-millionnaires-grace-au-cannabis

these are my 6 ideas for gta 6

1. Grand theft auto: angels and damned

if gta 6 does take place in the 60's or 70's than i was thinking they could make a gta game set in the state of San Andreas in 1969 that tells the story of a Vietnam war vet who returns home from Vietnam and becomes a member of the angels of death motorcycle gang. the story will document the early days of the infamous angels of death mc. as you progress through the story you will rise up through the ranks of the gang and eventually become president of the san andreas chapter. the game will have a ton of licensed music of the 1960's. the map will be massive spanning from Los santos to Las venturas to San fierro and will also feature small towns sprinkled all over the map along with wilderness such as backwoods, farmland, mountains, and deserts. you can also drive a wide selection of vehicles ranging from motorcycles, cars, trucks, semis, bulldozers, planes, choppers, boats, and more. the game will be all about rising through the ranks of a motorcycle gang, tearing around the countryside on your motorcycle, and raising hell.
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1. Grand theft auto: vice city narcos

from what ive been reading on the internet a lot of people really want to see vice city again. so this is my idea for another vice city game. the game will be set in a fully fictionalized version of south florida in the year 1986. the game will be about starting with nothing and working your way to the top and becoming vice city's biggest drug kingpin kinda like gta vice city's storyline. in this game vice city will be way bigger than it was in gta vice city by having vice city itself and new locations such as the florida keys, everglades, several tropical islands off the coast, and lake Okeechobee. there will also be side missions were you smuggle drugs into vice city. and there will be different factions like the mafia, drug cartel, and local gangs. and because the map will include swamplands and countryside you will also have other factions like the dixie mafia, biker gangs, etc. and like almost every gta game there will be a wide variety of vehicles to drive. this game will be heavily action packed and will include the feature from max payne of jumping around and going in slow motion shooting. and it will have a lucritive and fun drug dealing system kinda like gta chinatown wars. this game will also be heavily inspired by tv shows and movies such as scarface, miami vice, and narcos.
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1. Grand theft auto: carcer city

so this game will have a way more serious tone unlike the other ideas i just mentioned. this game will be set in carcer city and the surrounding countryside in the year 1998. this carcer city is nothing like the one from manhunt and will be based off chicago and detroit. in this game you are rising through the ranks of a mafia family. it will work a lot like the godfather games were you extort businesses, kill off rival mobsters, take over territorys, etc. you will also have the ability to pick up bodies, put them in trunks, drive them places, and dump them. this game will be inspired by shows such as the sorpranos, and the netflix show bad blood.
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1. Grand theft auto: sin city

this game will be set in 1970's las venturas and will be about building your own mafia empire and managing your casinos and building casinos. the game's map will consist of Las venturas itself and mostly desert and the hoover dam. you will also be able to gamble your money away by playing casino mini games. this game will be heavily inspired by the martin scorsese film casino.
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1. Grand theft auto 6

this game will be set in the year 2014 and the map will include all gta universe citys such as los santos, san fierro, las venturas, vice city, liberty city, cottonmouth, and carcer city. and will have a ton of small towns and different terrains of wilderness such as forests, farmlands, deserts, swamps, mountains, and so on. the game will have a wide variety of vehicles, weapons, etc to choose from. in this game you can be any kind of criminal you want you can be a mobster, a gangbanger, a drug lord, and so on. or you could be a vigilante and tear down these different factions by destroying their infostructure and killing the leader of the faction. you will also have the ability to become a police officer. you can join different gangs and organizations and rise through the ranks of them and become the leader of them. you will also have the ability to hide bodies. and you will be able to hogtie npcs with duct tape and transport them to places kinda how in rdr you can hogtie npcs with a lasso and take them places. the in game internet will be bigger and have more things to do on it as well. if you get arrested you can bribe the cops or go to prison. if you go to prison you can serve your sentence which means you will have to do anything to survive in prison. or you can try to breakout of prison. if you commit a serious crime and lose the police they will have huge manhunts for you and keep looking for you for a while. you can even craft your own weapons such as molotovs, homemade explosive devices, etc.
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1. Grand theft auto: san andreas HD remake
   i would also love to see an hd remake of my favorite gta of all time gta san andreas. it will have a complete hd universe version of san andreas and will have all the radio stations and songs from gta san andreas. it will also have ragdoll effects as well. it will have all the cool vehicles and weapons from gta san andreas. it will have rdr2 quality graphics.
   

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anyway that is my top 6 gta 6 ideas i hope you guys like it. this took me about 3 hours to make. id love to hear your thoughts let me know which one of these ideas you think is the best or if you have another idea you would like to share.
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Rio 2 (2014)
It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets his father-in-law.
Not a bad film as far as kids movies go. Unfortunately, this sequel decided to go with the whole family scene which meant introducing a bunch of child/teenage characters which i hated. I hate all young roles in movies, nine times out of ten, they just suck. This actually meant that despite this being a pretty decent sequel, my annoyance at the characters lowered my enjoyment. Also, I couldn't help but think of Blu's wife as a bad guy.
Apart from that, the story was fine, if a little in your face preachy. The side story with the return of Nigel was brilliant, if anything the film should have been more about them. The animation was similar to the previous movie, most of the old characters were just as good, and for the most part, the new characters were varied and enjoyable, despite being a little simplistic.
In conclusion, i'd advise that you give it a watch if you enjoyed the first film. If you didn't then you won't find anything new here.
My Rating: 6/10
Goodfellas (1990)
Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
Here we have another Scorsese masterpiece. I always hear amazing things about this film, but only got around to giving it a watch today. I don't think I've ever seen a Scorsese movie that I haven't enjoyed, and this definitely doesn't break that pattern.
While i knew from Casino that De Niro and Pesci would be amazing, i wasn't sure how i'd find Liotta. Truth be told i thought he was perfect in the role. The entire cast played their parts amazingly. The story was fantastic, the effects were amazing as always, everything was just right.
In conclusion, I would advise that you watch this film right now. It's like the modern day Godfather.
My Rating: 8/10
Oculus (2013)
A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
This film was pretty good. It started off amazingly. Personally, I think it got a little bit stale when they changed the plot from "This could all be your imagination" to "this is definitely legit supernatural". That brought the movie down a lot, but did allow for a few cool scenes.
The film wasn't that scary, there were a couple of cringe inducing scenes and one or two slightly creepy scenes, but for the most part the movie was more of a thriller than a horror, yet enjoyable nonetheless.
The cast were pretty decent. Karen Gillan proved that she can act pretty well without being typecast as "that doctor who girl". I never really cared too much for the characters, but it was still an enjoyable watch.
My Rating: 8/10
Argo (2012)
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.
I had absolutely no intention of watching this film. It didn't really interest me and it looked pretty dull. However, I had it on Blu ray and so figured I should give it a chance. I am so glad that i did because this film was really good.
The fact that it's based upon a true story of course makes the whole thing better, despite their being a lot of creative licensing to make the film more exciting for modern audiences. The way everything is put together made me feel like i was watching an episode of Hustle.
The actors all did fantastically, it was nice to see Brian Cranston in something other than Breaking Bad. Also, there were a lot of good lesser known actors that i enjoy present as well.
In all, the movie was very entertaining. I got a lot more attached to the pot and the characters than I originally thought i would and i'm glad that i gave the film a chance.
My Rating: 8/10
Starship Troopers (1997)
Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival.
This film was surprisingly enjoyable. At first glance it appears to be nothing more than another generic war film, however, when watching it you'll realise that it's actually a satirical look into military propaganda.
The movie has a little bit of everything really. There are a lot of laughs, a lot of action, a lot of violence and gory scenes, a few scenes of a sexual nature, a love triangle, pretty much everything you want from a good movie all thrown into one action packed film.
The best things about this film were by far the satirical look at the military as an institution, and also the no holds barred violence. Both were done incredibly well. The comedic elements made me laugh where i should, and the bloody effects made a nice change from all the PG-13 movies around at the moment.
My Rating: 9/10
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?
I expected this film to be a lot like 12 Angry Men. I was incorrect, but not disappointed. The movie itself had quite a long runtime which i started to feel halfway through, but as soon as the court scenes began i was completely pulled into the story once again and the runtime didn't feel as long anymore.
The film was fantastic. Yet again it proved that you don't need lots of action, excitement and explosions to enjoy a movie. Good plot, a well developed script with interesting characters that you care about are all you need.
Although by the end of the movie, i was actually hoping that the prosecution would win the case which i don't think i was supposed to. However, that didn't make me enjoy the film any less, it just meant that i was so engrossed in the story that i actually held my own opinions and didn't just blindly agree with the given story.
I wouldn't say it was as good as 12 Angry Men was, however it was still a good court thriller and it's stayed with me long after watching.
My Rating: 8/10
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004)
In the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's loved/reviled sci-fi film, a group of troopers taking refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realize that more danger lays in wait.
This movie kept much of what made the original so good. But it also left a lot to be desired. The comedic aspects didn't seem quite as good. The violence didn't have the same effect. The plot wasn't as good, nor were the characters.
That's not to say that the movie wasn't good. It expanded on the original story, didn't feel like a repeat of the original plot, and still had a lot going for it. Honestly near the end i really started to love this film, unfortunately it takes a long time to get really good.
It's just not the same as the original. But still worth a watch.
My Rating: 7/10
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008)
Johnny Rico is called back into action to defeat the bugs.
These movies seem to get slightly worse with each sequel. Again, this film was alright. It brought back the star of the first movie, which got my hopes up, but unfortunately everything just seemed to fall a bit flat.
Everything that made the original good was present, the satire, the comedy, the violence, the nudity, it's all there. It just doesn't have the same effect. The charm of the original is lost and i'm glad they stopped making these movies because while they're still alright, nothing can meet the original.
My Rating: 6/10
Calvary (2014)
After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
I remember the feeling of excitement after watching this trailer back when it was first released, however, by the time i got around to watching the film, i had forgotten what the movie was even about.
No matter, the film starts off nicely. It gets straight into the main plot and brought my excitement back. The first scene alone brings a lot of comedy and interest to the film. The only thing that i didn't like was that although they try and keep the second person's identity a secret, i knew instantly who it was due to the voice. Luckily the movie doesn't focus too much on the mystery behind the main plot, however, I'm sure it would have been more enjoyable to try and figure it out as you go along.
Unfortunately, after this promising opening, the film falls into stale ground. While some scenes sparked my interest, i soon felt myself losing interest. I was never truly bored or enticed to stop watching, yet the middle part of the film was quite forgettable. Fortunately the movie had a good handful of decent actors attached to it which made the process of watching slightly more enjoyable.
Luckily, this movie pulled things back at the end. At the climax, everything happens fairly fast. It managed to be slightly emotive with its content, bringing a feeling of anxiety and sadness to myself as a viewer. The movie definitely didn't end exactly as i expected it to and it was better for it. Everything also wrapped up well, despite feeling slightly rushed to completion, it also felt kind of perfect.
This movie was mostly carried by the humour. Even in the middle of the movie, where the main plot seemed to be forgotten for a time, the humour kept me interested and had me chuckling along a fair few times.
In conclusion, i would advise that if you can appreciate slightly dark British humour and an interesting story then watch this film. However, it's not something you should actively seek out because it wasn't fantastic.
My Rating: 6/10
Locke (2013)
Ivan Locke, a dedicated family man and successful construction manager, receives a phone call on the eve of the biggest challenge of his career that sets in motion a series of events that threaten his careful cultivated existence.
This film was amazing. Movies such as this one, with most or all of the movie taking place in one place and with a very minimal cast are very hit or miss with me. They can be amazing like Phonebooth or terrible like Grand Piano. Luckily, this fits with the former.
I was honestly surprised to realise how much I cared about the characters and their lives by the end of the film. The ending itself is kind of abrupt in a way, so all of the plot points that have built up throughout the film never get fully resolved. This i both hated and loved, however, it really effectively shows how much you care, because I really want to know more.
The cast were all brilliant. Even though everybody apart from Tom Hardy were just voices on a phone, they conveyed emotion and portrayed a real person extremely well. And Tom himself stole everything. He was amazing all the way throughout the film. Even when his character remained calm through emotional scenes, you could see that he was trying to hold himself together and he wasn't just acting calm. It's difficult to be the star of a feature length movie where the camera is focused on just you the whole time but Tom does it amazingly well.
I have to mention how well the cinematography was done. It wasn't overly amazing, but i noticed it due to the fact that you would think there are only so many different shots of the inside of a car that one can show before it gets monotonous, however this film manages to go a full hour and a half without it feeling dull.
In conclusion, this film was pretty amazing. If you don't need action, excitement, nudity or gore to enjoy a movie, then you'll probably enjoy this film.
My Rating: 8/10

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Did Ryan Gosling care that much about what the real guys were like or did he want to play the role his way? Was Sean Penn easy to work with or is he as big of a pain as people say he is?	Goslir did meet the two sons of the real Jerry Wooters and was eager to hear about their "old man". In fact they told him how the real Jerry Wooters would flick the ashes from his cigarette into his pants cuffs--so Ryan started doing that during the filming. I'm not sure it ever made it onto the screen. As for Penn, he definitely played the character of Mickey Cohen his way...very BIG, as critics have noted, like a Batman or James Bond villain. The real Mickey was not like that--he was a showman--but Penn's portrayal more was a riff on the tradition of Gangster Films. This one is set in 1949, the year Warner Bros released "White Heat" in which Jimmy Cagney winds up atop an oil refinery shouting, "Made it, Ma, Top of the World." real big, in other words. That film was based loosely on the Ma Barker gang, by the way...but no Barker ever bought it that way!
What's Ryan Gosling like?	I found him to be very nice, unaffected and serious about his acting. Though this was an action film, in which a lot of the action is over-the-top, and not meant to be realistic, he even would question whether little bits seemed plausible...like how Josh Brolin slides him a Tommy gun clip in the final big shootout. They actually changed the bit after Ryan questioned it.
How faithful is the movie to your book? Is there anything they changed that you're upset about?	The movie is very different--it's openly heroic, you know the good guys will win and the hero get the girl. In real life, L.A. cops never got a conviction in a mob rubout for 50 years! And when they finally got one--in the killing that culminates my book--it goes the way of Noir. After their 15 years pursuing Mickey Cohen, real justice for him comes in the form of a lead pipe to the head, in prison...
Do you think a more faithful adaptation of your work could have made a good movie? More of an Oscar type than a crash bang action film, I mean.	Perhaps, but as you suggest it would be a very different sort of entertainment and likely not for the (3,000-theater) mass market. Even then, it's hard to imagine having those cops carry Tommy guns in a film without ever using them. (You know what they say about a film scene starting with someone putting a gun on a desk...) Or consider spy films. A realistic one can be terrific, but it won't be a James Bond blockbuster. The studio in this case was open about its intention to make "Gangster Squad" an action film.
Ok. How did the name 'Gangster Squad' come about?	That's what this real squad was called when it was formed in 1946. The LAPD actually had used that before for a squad that battled Prohibition rum-runners. Once the famous William Parker ("Whiskey Bill") became Police Chief, however, he changed the name to the Intelligence Division. But some of the original members, like O'Mara, kept calling themselves the Gangster Squad.
As someone who knows the true story well, were there any aspects that were embellished in the movie that particularly annoy you?	I am the one most in touch with the surviving old cops and the families of the dead ones, so I have sympathy for their concern with the movie's violence, as the granddaughter of O'Mara expressed yesterday. While some shrugged "It's only a movie" or even relished the attention given the Gangster Squad, after all these years, others felt their loved ones had been turned into gunmen not much better than the hoods.
Hi! Thanks for doing this AMA! I loved the movie, and am really interested to learn the real story. How sensationalized was Mickey Cohen's rise to power and apparent threat to the city of Los Angeles? Was he truly an Al Capone type, with the possibility of controlling the entire city, perhaps the whole west coast? Or was he more of a wannabe?	Great question. The movie is set in 1949, when Mickey really was causing havoc in the city. Google up the old Life magazine photo of him in front of dozens of huge banner headlines he was generating almost daily as he generated a new scandal almost every week. That said, he mostly was being shot at by the Italian hoods -- not shooting at others -- and in later years he became a self-parody. He actually sold shares in his life story to any sucker who would bite. As I've said frequently, today he'd have a reality TV show, no question. But back in 1949, when the movie is set, he was perceived as a menace to L.A. Some of the language in the film may seem overblown but that year the mayor really did go on the radio to deliver a "We're going to get you Mickey Cohen!" speech you wouldn't believe.
What are some of your favorite books?	I re-read Gatsby every year or two just to earn the right to again read the final two pages, which leave me in awe every time, and totally humbled.
Nice! Do you have any thoughts or expectations on the film adaptation of Great Gatsby coming out in a few months?	Not until I've seen it. But I will.
How did you make sure you aren't going to get screwed over by Hollywood accounting, like all those other book authors?	Easy--I get not a penny of the box office so don' have to fret about that form of Hollywood screwing.
I currently live in LA and I'm from DC. While my perception may be incorrect it seems to me that the mobs and more organized crime units have basically been replaced by street gangs (ms 13, bloods, etc.). At this point, the old mobsters have been glorified and people seem to think they were preferable to the new gangs (as though we could just choose between competing proposals). Is such a criminal nostalgia justified or were the old guys actually much worse than the common man realizes?	Brilliant. One of the things that fascinated me was how city leaders in L.A. for decades obsessed with invading gangsters -- as if evil only came from without. But the number of gangster shooting in the city was miniscule compared to those committed by street gangs bred right in the heart of the city. If you read the book, I hope you reach the cemetery scene and see how that makes the point.
What is your favorite sex position?	My position is I'm for it.
for it. for. four. foursome. EXTREE EXTREE! PAUL LIEBERMAN CONFESSES TO FOURSOME SEX TRYST (WITH RYAN GOSLING, EMMA STONE, AND BETTY WHITE!)	Please don't tell my wife, or Betty's family.
What inspired you to write their story in the first place?	The post-war "Noir" era was the period that to this day defines Los Angeles...and this was a rare untold story from that era, because the squad had been so secretive. (The Noir worldview to me was: "Truth is not found in the sunshine and justice not obtained in a marble courtroom.")
Did you ever meet Emma Stone? If so, was she nice?	Alas, she was not filming when I was on the set. My wife, of course, asked that same question...so I told her not to believe anything they wrote about us in the gossip columns. (Everyone involved said she was very sweet and a real pro...I am amused, though, when entertainment media ask her what it was like being paid to kiss Ryan Gosling...that's what they want to know.)
One of the things I was most disappointed with in the movie was that it really failed to get more into the past life of Mickey Cohen. I know they brought up he was a boxer, but besides that, there wasn't very much mention of how he ended up with his power in California. As someone who is very interested in the gangster era of prohibition and on, I found myself googling Mickey Cohens name to find more information about where he was from, how he came to his power, etc. My question to you is, what roll did gangsters of an earlier era (such as Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Segal, etc) play in Mickey Cohen's rise and his control over LA? Another question that wasn't really brought up in the movie, did the Chicago gangsters just sit by when they found out that Mickey was murdering their men? From my previous understandings of gangsters of the era, I doubt they would let something like that go unpunished. One more question, what did the Jewish mobsters of the rest of the country think of Cohen and his power in LA? Did they endorse him, or did he kind of just take LA by himself and for himself? Did he have connections in Chicago/NYC?	Very good question. I too view the Gangster Movie ideally as the flip side to America's great Horatio Alger fable, except the rags-to-riches rise is in the criminal world...and usually ends in a flaming fall, as you see in the "Gangster Squad" film. There are hints in movie of Mickey's humble past (as when he talks about being a newsboy) but not much. As I've indicated above, the local Mafia boss Jack Dragna, who had tied to Chicago, indeed kept trying to kill Mickey and did get some of his men. Mickey himself did have ties to big-time Mafia types back East, though not as strongly as Bugsy Siegel, his mentor, who had grown up with Lucky Luciano. That said, many old-line monsters had to see Mickey as a looney-tune because of how he promoted himself, posing for Life magazine with his pet doggy ("Tuffy") for instance...or going on national TV (a new show by then little known Mike Wallace) to taunt the L.A. cops and the "stupidity squad." No sane gangster did stuff like that.
What's your favorite mob movie?	Godfather I, II and Goodfellas are like heroin in my veins (if I took the stuff) even if the Godfather movies mythologize the mob. (I tend to be a demythologizer)
I know you're going to get a lot of questions about your film but I'd like to know something that taps into your experiences in Hollywood. Was it what you expected? How did you protect your material and what kind of legal trouble would they have been in if they had just stolen your material and done the movie without you, cutting you out of the loop?	Good question--that's happened to me, of course, as it has with many writers. The main producers did often seek my input in this case, even though they did not have to. But they also were quite open about their attempt to make a mass market action film that would be very different than my printed versions. You sometimes have to accept what authority you have or don't have...and go along for the ride. A studio spending $60 million on a film earns the right to make it as it wishes.
Slightly unrelated, but what do you think of Boardwalk Empire?	I like Boardwalk, having walked the real one as a boy--indeed, my mother was duped into buying a diamond ring at a trumped-up auction there. Wild.
Was Jerry Wooters really the party persona portrayed? Was Emma Stone's character real or was she just added to give more to the storyline?	The Emma Stone character is a total cinematic creation, along the lines of the old Lauren Bacall characters in her films with Bogart. But Wooters really was a wild guy. He came out of Vice, a world (sometimes lawless) apart even in the LAPD. And while he eventually married (a stewardess, he was quite the ladies man earlier in life, particularly in the war years, after he was shot down overt the pacific while taking photos of Japanese positions out of a bomber. He later kept all sorts of photos of him with various nurses, good-looking ones too. LAter, he'd sometimes show other cops films that vice had confiscated, and show 'em right in the Police Academy--they were not the sort made by Disney.
What was the most untrue part of the movie? In other words, what aspect of the movie was the farthest from the actual reality? Did they fabricate any characters? I haven't had the opportunity yet to read your book; was Sgt. O'Mara as devoted to justice as the movie suggested, or did they turn him into a gritty hero in order to have a shiny protagonist? How accurate was the movie with Mickey Cohen's actual reign on Los Angeles? Was it as bad as the movie made it out to be?	) Well, there were not all those wild shootouts on the streets of L.A. in real life--yeah, a few gambling hoods were knocked off, and then a batch of Mickey's men. But the Tommy gun action in the film was inspired more by the tradition of the genre. Also, as I said above, Mickey was more the target than the shooter when there was gunplay between him and Jack Dragna's crew ... 2) As I've said, the love interest was a creation. Mickey did have a bunch of glamor arm-candy but some of that was just for show -- he staged an engagement to one burlesque dancer who actually was happily married. In the book, she talks about how that was all a show to enhance Mickey's image. 3) As I've said, Mickey was pretty badass through 1949 (when the movie is set) but after that there was so much heat on him he was mostly a self-parody, the used-to-be playing the big gangster (when he wasn't in prison)
What do you think of the videogame, " L.A. Noire"?	Great colorful era--why not a game? But I'm not a video game guy, too old.
That's not true, sir. Link to www.reddit.com You are possibly missing some great storytelling. I will accept too busy, though. Thanks for the AMA!	You know, you're right. I'll try it next week.
How do you react to this post from the granddaughter of Jack O'Mara who said that the film was widely inaccurate and altered her grandfather's story significantly?	I've had years of contact with her and her remarkable mom, Jack O'Mara's daughter -- and a Harvard Ph.D! -- and they are right in stating that the film character is very different (and much more violent) that the real man. The real O'Mara was a fist-ready tough cop but told me he'd only fired his gun once, at a robbery suspect. And his greatest weapon was his cleverness. But the filmmakers wouldn't disagree that they stretched things in the name of drama.
I have not read your book, but does it trash Burbank as much as the movie does? If so, I will order it now.	Yes, Burbank was the bastion of corruption. The police chief was caught dining at Mickey's home, bought a big yacht and actually received a cash payment while attending an FBI training program back east. Mickey actually had a gambling joint by the stables there. That said, the current Burbank chief and some of his men attended the presentation we gave last week (Ellroy and I) at the LA Police Museum and laughed with everyone else at that past.
Are you happy with the final outcome of the film and its portrayal of the "Gangster Squad"?	I'm a nonfiction guy so my prejudice always is in favor of the true story, as in the book. I think that knowing it is true gives it extra power.
Hi Paul - I've not read the book - but how did the real-life guys feel about persuing someone so public and 'dangerous' only to have him killed in prison instead? Also - did you ever ask them to compare their feelings about crime then and now?	Mickey was not killed in prison, only crippled. But that's a question that gets to the core of my book. The real O'Mara was a very straight-laced guy, the head usher at his church, etc. He believed in good and evil and heaven and hell and was confident that he and Mickey would not wind up in the same place. However...in the end, he seemed to accept the Noir worldview that justice often was obtained not the way they teach in grade school but in the shadows. How Mickey got it was a prime example.
Because they bought the rights to make a movie out of your book, how much say did you get to have in writing the screenplay and being on set to help with the film production?	I often joke that you could measure my authority on either a 1-to-10 scale or 1-to-100 and it would be the same, zero. And I accepted that. But my input was solicited often, which I appreciated, even if others thought some of my suggestions were nutty. (I suggested a Louis Armstrong song for the ending, for instance, not what they envisioned in targeting a youngish audience.)
Would you rather have a shootout with 100 duck-sized gangsters, or 1 gangster-sized duck?	Yes.
What is your opinion on the mustaches? On the Rotten Tomatoes rating?	Don't know it, but vigorous commentary (and criticism) is a strength of our society.
How much have you been influenced by James Ellroy's work?	He is fantastic and the true authority on this era. We had dinner last week in L.A. then did a joint presentation at the Los Angeles Police Museum, which now has a Gangster Squad exhibit. Ellroy and the head of the museum also interviewed one of the characters in my book, the original bug man Con Keeler, before he died, especially about the squad's role in the Black Dahlia murder case. The squad was brought in on that when the police brass feared that Homicide was botching the case. That's a chapter in the book.
As a non-fiction writer and researcher, are there other stories from this period that you may have stumbled upon while writing "Gangster Squad"?	Yes, sure. But the appeal of this one was that it had almost been lost to history. Another LAPD unit, the Hat Squad, had gotten a lot of attention -- it was part of the Robbery Division -- but not the Gangster Squad, which was much more undercover. What's more, the killing of Jack "the Enforcer" Whalen invariably was glossed over, just a footnote in accounts of Mickey Cohen's life. The tale of Whalen, and his family, was incredibly rich. I hope people read my book just to learn about his father, Freddie the Thief, perhaps L.A.'s greatest conman of that era--a character right out of The Sting.
Are there are parts in the film where you would have cast someone completely different to whoever actually was given the role?	No, the casting was terrific. Though others have questioned Sean Penn as the Jewish and very short Mickey Cohen, I thought his intensity made him a great choice to portray a gangster, as Cagney, Brando, DeNiro, etc., had done in the past. He's a brilliant actor. Whether the choices he made in this case were right, you can judge yourself. It was interesting that the New Yorker thought he nailed it, while other critics have thought he went overboard.
What was Williams College like in the 60's/70's? I saw on the school website that you're an alum.	Right. All male when I arrived. That's how dumb I was then. But a beautiful place and something of a refuge from the insanity of the '60s.
What are some of the other projects you've worked on since the original articles/book? Do you typically stick to this era of history or do you just find a story you want to know more about and run with it?	No, I'm not obsessed with this era. I actually conducted the GS research over many years while I was pursuing other stories. I like ones from the fringe. I spent several years tracking a hospital killer, for instances -- one of those so-called Angels of Death, except there's nothing angelic about any of them. Medical/hospital killers top the list of mass killers in our society because killing is easy to get away with in a hospital, where people are expected to die. But what intrigued me was how the public at large often thinks there killers acted out of mercy for the sick and elderly--when that's never the case, it's a delusion to underplay the horror of what they do. I called that one, "The Graveyard Shift."
Why did they stuck with the working title?	Don't know. But it seemed to the point.
Lets say you didn't know anything about the original gangster squad, how would you rate the movie? Was it still enjoyable?	Hey, my sister liked it and she's an old Beat poet type. My wife, an elementary school educator, had a good time too (even if she had to close her eyes at some of the violence.)
Did the whole "good guy tries to steal the bad guy's girl" part of the story actually happen?	No.
How well do you think Mickey Cohen was portrayed in the film compared to real life events?	As I said, that portrayal is as much a riff on past movie gangsters as the real Mickey -- he was much more press-friendly in real life, certainly. He'd hold court along the Sunset Strip. He also hired the husband of one of the city's leading columnists as sort of his personal PR man. If you read the book, you'll learn how the squad got revenge on that columnist and her hubby.
Do you think an accurate mobster vs. cops movie could be made that would grab audience's attention? Or will Hollywood need to always embellish things?	Yes to the first, but that doesn't mean it could earn back a $75 million budget. Probably yes to the second -- John Irving has a character in one of his books say he can take any real story and make it better with a little tweaking.
What does Ryan gosling drink in the movie?? It's that orange soda looking drink.	That's "Nehi," a very popular orange soda back then. The family of the real Wooters laughed at that because the real guy was a big (hard) drinker, as most of these men were. But Ryan used the character's going to softer drink as a way of showing his newfound commitment to the job, when he joined the squad.
How much hs the movie boosted the book recent sales? I know I'm picking it up ASAP... or maybe after watching the movie, would like to enjoy the movie, insted of keep dissing it in my head.	I know that I -- and the families of these old cops -- would like people to know the real-life story of them, for all their flaws. But don't expect to find all sorts of wild shootouts in the book. The Whalen killing that climaxes the tale is rather chilling, I think. Everything before is leading you to that deadly night in the Valley.
As someone who grew up and lived in Los Angeles up until recently, I have always been interested in this part of the city's history. Are there any books, articles or documentaries you would recommend checking out?	James Ellroy and Walter Mosley's fiction, of course, and going back a bit, Raymond Chandler -- the story "Red Wind" contains one of the greatest Noir passages anywhere. But check out historian Kevin Starr's work too -- it's astonishing in its detail.
What was your favorite scene in the movie?	I loved the raid on the Burbank casino where a lot of the customers are dressed as movie extras. That was very funny and actually somewhat true to life -- Mickey's "ranch" casino by the stables did attract such a crowd. And there were frequent raids there, just without the shootouts you see in the film.
Do you have any thoughts on how the classic, Italian gangsters of the '40s differ from the various criminal syndicates of today, like the Mexican cartels, the Russian mafia and the remnants of the Sicilian families?	The ones today are much more scary and violent. I did some work relating to the Armenian mob around L.A. and was advised by homicide cops not to see the leader suspected of having ordered a series of hits in the garment industry--he might not understand the usual ground rules that you don;t rub out cops...or writers.
How did you feel about the theater shooting scene being taken out of the film, and how difficult was it to rewrite the film after it was removed?	I didn't write the script. That was Will Beall--a former LAPD cop turned writer.
Do you find it incredibly odd how mainstream White America idolizes even the worst form of savagery as long as it's done by whites? What does that say about our obsession with race as a society?	We could talk for hours about the racial/ethnic issues raised by that era and, yes, this squad. Of course, their idea of diversity was to have one Italian. And yes they joked about shooting a black guy in the ass, and not in that language. As I said before, that was a time when blacks were not part of the club, they got the club. But O'Mara did have a friendly rivalry with Tom Bradley, who went from the police force to become L.A.'s first black mayor.
What's it like navigating hollywood as a writer and how does one get noticed?	Wow. Usually one doesn't or gets rejected. Or consider David Chase, who struggled along as a journeyman (and little appreciated) TV writer for years until he created the "Sopranos." I once asked him, "Were you always a genius?" He said, "Yes"
Did you rip off la confidential?	Nope, my work was a true, original story based on 300-plus interviews and thousands of pages of unearthed documents (thanks to three researchers).
How do you feel about the fact that police brutality/crimes by police are romanticized in media such as TV and film?	Yes, that's a danger. I tried not to romanticize the excesses of the Gangster Squad. It's hard not to take pleasure in some of their vigilante justice, as with how they took care of the pickpockets victimizing servicemen just returning from the war. But even those cops eventually saw themselves as men whose time (and tactics) had passed.
Was Daryl Gates actually involved in the taking down of the mob scene? I noticed that he was the chiefs assistant in the movie. Also, would you then call the "Gangster Squad" the precursor to his formation of the SWAT team?	Gates was the driver and protege to Chief. Parker but as the previous poster indicates, after the time period ('49) of the film. He did later head the unit in the '60s when it was the Intelligence Division and a few of the early members (Keeler, Greeley) served under him.
Given the choice, would you rather have your book/research/information turned into a documentary or keep it as the movie it is today?	Why not both? I did want the true story told somewhere, in any event.
Fair enough. It just sucks how Hollywood sticks to the good guy/bad guy tropes in film. Cohen is such a mustache twirler in Gangster Squad. By the way, did that comically over the top Nazi actually exist? The one who was employed from Cohen. He looked like he was right out of Indiana Jones.	In the '40s Mickey had some pretty serious characters around him, both Italians and Jews, including Jimmy Rist, who was a large guy and former boxer...but no, no one quite like that film villain. If you read the book, you'll be amused by the type of hangers-on he had in later life.
I have a question about the AMA process, actually. AMA's seem to be done more and more frequently as part of the touring circuit for movies, books, etc. (which for the record, I don't mind). Do people like you have an agent that comes and tells you to do an AMA, is it the movie studio, a nerdy nephew, or is it just your own personal curiosity? Thanks!	The post by Jack O'Mara's granddaughter was brought to my attention after it got such a lively response yesterday. So I thought I'd weigh in on the reality-v-fiction question. Of course, I hope people read the book version of "Gangster Squad," even if they just get it from the library -- I believe the families of the old squad members do too. In any case, this is a terrific forum. I think if people use it too commercially they won't get such a vigorous response.
Did you speak to any of Mickey's family/friends that may still be living? What was that like?	I did not speak to family members, but did find: two of his lawyers, including Max Solomon, who had represented Bugsy Siegel too -- and who inspired one member of the Gangster Squad to go to law school (you've got to read the book); two of the friends at his table at Rondelli's the night Jack Whalen was killed; several of his girlfriends/dates; and of course Max Baer Jr., the son of the heavyweight champ who hung with him right before being cast as Jethro in the Bev. Hillbillies. Etc. Their feelings about Mickey ran the gamut, but check out the ones in the book from Tony Reno, the lounge singer.
What's your opinion on film as an artistic medium in this particular era, especially in comparison to the recent explosion of good television?	True, brilliant stuff is being done on television with all its outlets while the big screen tends to draw the visual spectacle. We the consumers are the winners with all the choices.
I heard a rumor a major scene in the movie was a theater shooting, which they took out and changed after the Aurora tragedy. Is there any truth to this that you know of?	Right...the ambush scene now set in Chinatown originally was set in Grauman's Chinese Theatre...that was reshot after the Aurora tragedy, delaying the film's release four months.
How long do you think it will be before the porn parody "Gangbang Squad" comes out?	You'd better reserve the domain name quick.
The movie started in 1949 with the violent acts by Cohen. The police chief that gets the credit for taking down the mob didn't get into office until 1950. Why did they not just set the movie a few years later to match up?	Right, you know your history. Dramatic license in the film, I suppose. Actually, the interim chief who served from '49-'50 was a remarkable man, Gen. William Worton, a leader of the Marines during the war in the Pacific. After that, he was a spy against the Japanese. So he understood secretive squads--he's the one who moved the Gangster Squad right into his office in City Hall. That's all in the book.
After all your research, do you think a "gangster squad" would work in modern times?	Well, the early GS was a little like today's Swat Teams (which didn't exist then). But with all their head-knocking we can overlook their pioneering role in gathering intelligence on the mob -- they were assembling files a full decade before the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover acknowledged the existence of organized crime. That's one reason he and the LAPD's Chief Parker were such bitter rivals.
Is there a reason why the ending was made so Mickey Cohen went to jail for murder instead of the real reason which was tax evasion, or was it just dramatic effect?	I think it was partly for dramatic effect and partly to avoid being too similar to The Untouchables. In fact, Mickey was indicted for conspiracy in the Whalen killing but the jury hung. What did Mickey say while the jury was sequestered and he was at the barber shop? Something like, "This is a crazy world--they lock up the jury and I'm a free man."
Hi Paul. I really enjoyed your book, and I would say shocked was my reaction when I first saw the trailer and seen which way they were taking the movie. I was wondering if Fred Whalen has a part in the film? In my opinion he's the most interesting part of the book.	Fred Whalen is not in the film, either as an actor (he's dead) or character. But, yeah, we probably should do a whole move about the great conman who survived on his wits for almost a century. His pool playing did earn him a role in Disney's "The Cat from Outer Space," of course.

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