‘A modern-day villain’: Joe Manchin condemned for killing US climate action The West Virginia senator, a fossil-fuel millionaire, has refused to support any spending to curb the climate crisis The Guardian - US · Jul 15, 2022
Remembering James Caan: A tough guy with range, from ‘Brian’s Song’ to Sonny Corleone and dozens more I remember the talk in the hallways at school the morning after ABC-TV reran “Brian’s Song” sometime in the mid-’70s. Every kid who watched it, or caught it the first time in 1971, said the same thing, more or less, the boys especially. Some variation on a theme of awkward,… Chicago Tribune · Jul 8, 2022
Bada-bing! Farewell to James Caan, a screen tough guy with a heart as big as his fists The actor, who has died aged 82, starred in a slew of classics from ‘Thief’ to ‘Misery’ but will be best remembered as the volatile Sonny in ‘The Godfather’. Kevin E G Perry pays tribute to a master of his craft The Independent UK · Jul 7, 2022
Heat: Robert De Niro and Al Pacino reunite to discuss their hit thriller At a special Tribeca film festival event, the stars of Michael Mann’s acclaimed crime saga reminisced while offering suggestions of who could play them in a remake The Guardian - US · Jun 18, 2022
Australian snow, rain and heat linked by blocked weather systems, climatologist says What do a blizzard in the east and days of rain in the west have in common with the February-March floods and the heat records smashed around the world? ABC News · Jun 8, 2022
New panels want to talk ethics, rules of climate tinkering The idea of tinkering with the air to cool Earth's ever-warming climate seems to be gaining momentum The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2022
Tokyo Vice review – wannabe hardboiled drama is really as cute as Ansel Elgort’s face A young American crime reporter makes his way in a convincing Japanese capital – yet the menace of the Michael Mann-directed first episode soon dissipates The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2022
From Vice to F1: The story of Miami's other grands prix Formula 1 might be visiting a new venue in Miami this weekend but the city has plenty of motorsport history from a diverse range of categories over the years Autosport · May 6, 2022
CO2 removal is having a moment and not everyone's happy A landmark UN scientific report this month calls carbon dioxide removal a "key element" for tackling global warming, though amounts vary. Axios · Apr 15, 2022
Earth Day: When is it and why do we celebrate it? Earth Day is an annual global event on April 22 that celebrates Earth and raises public awareness about the environment. LiveScience · Apr 11, 2022
Review: 'Ambulance' speeds out of control but it's fun for a while "Ambulance" is best when it's content to be gleefully stupid, which is about two-thirds of the time. Tribune News Service · Apr 7, 2022
Review: 'Tokyo Vice' is a canny, suspenseful adventure story Jake Adelstein, the first non-Japanese reporter on staff at Japan's largest newspaper, has had his 2009 memoir about working the police beat adapted into a 10-episode series for HBO Max, "Tokyo Vice." Half that meal has been made available for review, and it is so far an intriguing mix of… Los Angeles Times · Apr 7, 2022
Movie review: ‘Ambulance’ another bombastic slice of action fare from Michael Bay Deep into director Michael Mann’s 1995 crime epic, “Heat,” a team of skilled criminals attempts to steal millions of dollars from a Los Angeles bank. When a highly trained police unit arrives on the scene, machine gunfire erupts in the streets around the bank as the thieves attempt to flee… Tribune News Service · Apr 6, 2022
'Tokyo Vice' HBO Max release date, time, plot, cast, and trailer for the crime thriller Director Michael Mann returns to the crime scene with a ‘90s Japanese police drama Inverse · Apr 6, 2022
Tribune News Service · Apr 5, 2022 What to stream: 'Tokyo Vice' and the best of Michael Mann Thursday brings the much anticipated premiere of celebrated director Michael Mann’s latest series, “Tokyo Vice.” The first three episodes will debut on HBO Max this week, with pairs of episodes dropping every Thursday after that until the finale on April 28. The series, filmed on location in Tokyo, is inspired…
The Guardian - US · Apr 5, 2022 Tokyo Vice review – Michael Mann returns to TV with taut crime thriller The acclaimed auteur casts Ansel Elgort as an American journalist uncovering a world of gangsters in a simple but entertaining new series
Inverse · Apr 4, 2022 'Tokyo Vice' review: Ken Watanabe steals HBO Max’s uneven yakuza thriller Ken Watanabe shines in 'Tokyo Vice,' a gorgeous but uneven new yakuza-centric crime drama. The first three episodes of the series premiere Thursday, April 7, on HBO Max.
Chicago Tribune · Mar 25, 2022 Nina Metz: Movies no longer have the same cultural cachet. Of course fewer people care about the Oscars In the lead-up to Sunday’s 94th Oscars ceremony on ABC, there’s been all kinds of panicked flop sweat about dwindling audience numbers and reversing the trend. The deeper anxiety is that the Oscars are losing their relevance altogether as a must-see event. To which I say: They are and so…
The Guardian - US · Mar 22, 2022 Forest fires erupt around Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine Ukrainian authorities say Russian control of plant is hampering efforts to control the blazes
Los Angeles Times · Mar 4, 2022 ‘We need to do all we can’: Five key takeaways from the UN climate report In the latest United Nations report on climate change, scientists document the stark toll inflicted by global warming through more intense heat waves, droughts, floods and other disasters, and present a dire warning that humanity should act quickly to move away from fossil fuels and cut planet-heating emissions.