It’s Movie Week, with routines inspired by films ranging from The Godfather to Ratatouille. But which cinephile rug-cutter will impress the judges most?

It’s Movie Week, with routines inspired by films ranging from The Godfather to Ratatouille. But which cinephile rug-cutter will impress the judges most?

It’s Movie Week, with routines inspired by films ranging from The Godfather to Ratatouille. But which cinephile rug-cutter will impress the judges most?

It’s Movie Week, with routines inspired by films ranging from The Godfather to Ratatouille. But which cinephile rug-cutter will impress the judges most? There was no viewer vote last time out, so this is the first chance for the Strictly audience to back their favourites – and the first couple will be cruelly voted off. Last Saturday’s judgely scores will be carried over, then combined with tonight’s totals and the public vote. The bottom two will be consigned to this year’s first dreaded dance-off and somebody will be sent home with the sparkly-handled wooden spoon. Continue reading...

It’s Movie Week, with routines inspired by films ranging from The Godfather to Ratatouille. But which cinephile rug-cutter will impress the judges most?

It’s Movie Week, with routines inspired by films ranging from The Godfather to Ratatouille. But which cinephile rug-cutter will impress the judges most?

The Godfather II pairs a miniature mechanical music box with a flying tourbillon, film-inspired details and a more wearable Art Deco case. In partnership with Sincere Fine Watches

The Godfather II pairs a miniature mechanical music box with a flying tourbillon, film-inspired details and a more wearable Art Deco case. In partnership with Sincere Fine Watches

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There is a saying among bibliophiles: Never judge a book by its movie. For true readers, nothing any director dreams up can ever match the cinema playing inside one’s head, to borrow a line from Anurag Kashyap’s greatest villain. Two rare adaptations that arguably hold their own against their source novels are Mario Puzo’s The Godfather and William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist.And yet one film that outshone the book that inspired it is 3 Idiots, loosely based on Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone, which captures the meat-grinder aesthetics of engineering education.

When the grandson of the man who inspired the Godfather films approached a prestigious New York publishing house, offering a book that would expose the murderous inner world of the mafia, it was the p...

When Patrikios (Christos Stergioglou), onetime/longtime physician to Marcos Timoleon (Willem Dafoe), an Aristotle Onassis-inspired Greek titan of industry and all-around oligarch, casually suggests the latter’s resemblance behavior-wise to Marlon Brando’s title character in The Godfather, Marcos laughs, instead suggesting the voracious, flesh-eating shark in Jaws as a better comparison to how he lives and comports himself on the private island that doubles as Marcos's personal fiefdom.   Both, it turns out, aptly describe the autocratic, imperious Marcos and his plans for his family over an all-expenses-paid weekend celebration.    There’s no half-man, half-bull Minotaur or an actual labryinth in The Birthday Party, writer-director Miguel Ángel Jiménez's (Window to the Sea) adaptation of Panos Karnezis’s well-regarded 2007 novel, but there is Marcos: a self-made man, a... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

John Wojtowicz, a Vietnam veteran and former Chase Manhattan teller, orchestrated a 1972 bank robbery in Brooklyn to fund gender-reassignment surgery for his lover, Ernest Aron. The heist, inspired by *The Godfather*, turned into a 14-hour standoff with police, media, and hostages. Despite limited cash seizures ($38,000), Wojtowicz's actions sparked global media attention and inspired the 1975 film *Dog Day Afternoon*. After serving five years of a 20-year sentence, he leveraged his notoriety by posing at the bank in a 'I Robbed This Bank' shirt. His story highlights themes of personal struggle, media sensationalism, and the intersection of crime and identity. Wojtowicz's later life included legal troubles and a legacy tied to both the robbery and its cultural impact.