As a companion piece to their downtown near-monopoly on The Wrestler, the Sunshine is screening the 1987 voodoo detective flick Angel Heart at midnight tonight and Saturday. Set in spooky New Orleans, the movie stars a younger Rourke as the gumshoe and Robert DeNiro as the mysterious Louis Cyphre.
Blame his weekend's paltry crop of new movies on the studios' strategy of dropping their last Oscar hopes just before the New Year, which is when prestige pics like Benjamin Button and Revolutionary Road debuted. Those releases will no doubt eclipse this week's meager options, but let's try to keep up appearances, shall we? Excelsior!






"The single most unconvincing death-camp scene I have encountered in a film" is added to my 2009 list of slams, right after, "I don't go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth."
I didn't know James Bond was Jewish.
He is, but he only plays tough Jews, the ones who carry machine guns like in Defiance and Munich, not the kind that do your taxes.
Line blatantly cribbed from Jon Stewart