Friday night, I finally got an opportunity to see Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. It is a remake of the popular Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs. Here’s a summary according to IMDb:
In South Boston, the state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). While Billy quickly gains Costello’s confidence, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon), a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit.
Each man becomes deeply consumed by his double life, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations he has penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there’s a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy-and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save himself. But is either willing to turn on the friends and comrades they’ve made during their long stints undercover?
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Neptunes are making their R&B rounds again, this time with a new song from Mr. Babyhair himself, it’s cool song though, no hate.
http://kutonthaman.podomatic.com/enclosure/2006-09-29T13_24_05-07_00.mp3
Hey folks, sorry for the delay, but my computer is out of wack and I have only been able to post to the site from work. I hate having to borrow, because most folks start acting brand new when you ask to borrow their stuff, especially black folks, but that’s neither here nor there, so let’s continue with the list:
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Sunday night, after a long hiatus brought on by a lack of entertainment funding, I finally made it back to the movies. I was pretty excited to hear about a film called the Prestige. The plot as described on IMDb is as follows:
From acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, comes a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) were competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them. Full of twists and turns, THE PRESTIGE is set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London, the exceptional cast includes two-time Oscar® winner Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie.
My initial thoughts upon seeing the teaser were pretty wishy washy. I was pretty excited about it, but I was equally excited about the Illusionist, staring Ed Norton, which was another magician movie that came out a month earlier. Considering that I’m a bigger Norton fan than I am of Jackman and Bale combined, I figured that this would be the lesser of the two movies. I had visions of Batman and Wolverine in a magic fight, pretty stupid right? Wrong. The Prestige actually turned out to be far, far better than any of my expectations.
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Not that I am a Gwen Stefani fan or anything, but anything produced by the Neptunes i’ll check out. Apparently this is a new single from her upcoming album which I will not be purchasing.
Main:
http://www.supload.com/listen?s=SbPc2aR97Nu
Alternate Link (if above link dies):
www.sendspace.com/file/lt1h7g
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