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Mikey and Nicky

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Nicky and Mikey on the bus

A cult movie from a cult director, Mikey and Nicky stars the ever-cultish John Cassavetes and his old friend Peter Falk as a pair of low-life crooks having one last night together before the day of reckoning arrives. Nicky (Cassavetes) has done something to a bad guy and is now in hiding, petrified, in a hotel room. When Mikey (Falk) arrives to talk him out of his fear, Nicky is not entirely convinced that Mikey isn’t after him as well. But he allows himself to be persuaded and soon the two of them are heading out into the night, which will prove to be the last one for one of them. Shot in … Read more

Rampart

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Woody Harrelson in Rampart

A movie for every day of the year – a good one 3 March Rodney King beating caught on camera, 1991 On this day in 1991, one of the inaugural events of the age of citizen journalism occurred after paroled felon Rodney King was stopped by police after a high speed chase and then beaten by five officers. King was drunk and had been trying to outrun the police, knowing that arrest while driving under the influence would mean a violation of his parole and an immediate return to prison. George Holliday’s videotape of the beating of Rodney King was what made the event important. He’d switched his camera on just as police … Read more