Russell Crowe’s The Pope’s Exorcist, inspired by the true story of the Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, Father Gabriele Amorth, landed crazy reviews following its release. While most fans found the movie extremely bizarre, and even the Golden Raspberry Awards, aka the Razzies, offered the worst actor nomination to Crowe, Japanese video game designer Hideo Kojima found the movie amusing.
Hideo Kojima | image: Instagram/@hideo_kojima
Initially regretting missing out on the movie when it was released in theatres, Hideo Kojima recently notified his fans via X that he is preparing to watch Russell Crowe’s The Pope’s Exorcist on Prime Video. Further, after completing his watch, the video game designer expressed his appreciation for the movie and even mentioned how people in Japan love it.
Hideo Kojima Expressed His Appreciation for The Pope’s Exorcist
Following the release of Russell Crowe’s big exorcist movie in theatres,...
Hideo Kojima | image: Instagram/@hideo_kojima
Initially regretting missing out on the movie when it was released in theatres, Hideo Kojima recently notified his fans via X that he is preparing to watch Russell Crowe’s The Pope’s Exorcist on Prime Video. Further, after completing his watch, the video game designer expressed his appreciation for the movie and even mentioned how people in Japan love it.
Hideo Kojima Expressed His Appreciation for The Pope’s Exorcist
Following the release of Russell Crowe’s big exorcist movie in theatres,...
- 2/19/2024
- by Krittika Mukherjee
- FandomWire
The fifth episode of How to Become a Mob Boss revolves around the life of Boston’s most powerful mob boss, James “Whitey” Bulger. He had managed to keep his proceedings undercover for a very long time, making him one of the most nearly invincible individuals on the face of the earth. He had done everything right to extend his shelf life as a mob boss and had taken all possible precautions to keep himself from getting caught. His predicting capability helped him obliterate every threat coming his way! How heinous were his crimes? Did he finally get caught? Let us find out!
Spoilers Ahead
What Was Whitey’s Reputation in Boston?
James “Whitey” Bulger was the head of Boston’s Winter Hill Gang and was well known for having ordered at least 19 murders and ranking an estimated $30 million in illicit cash. Emily Sweeney, the reporter for the Boston Globe,...
Spoilers Ahead
What Was Whitey’s Reputation in Boston?
James “Whitey” Bulger was the head of Boston’s Winter Hill Gang and was well known for having ordered at least 19 murders and ranking an estimated $30 million in illicit cash. Emily Sweeney, the reporter for the Boston Globe,...
- 11/15/2023
- by Debjyoti Dey
- Film Fugitives
The fourth episode of How to Become a Mob Boss highlights the life of John Gotti, the boss of the New York Gambino family. Gotti’s endless wrong decisions and the array of arrests and betrayals led to his downfall. While all the other episodes focus on the right ways to become a mob boss, his example brings out the things that are not to be done if one wants to earn that position. There wasn’t another soul that would lead a life like Gotti’s and survive in the mafia industry as long as he did. Despite being one of the most recognized and famous mob bosses of his time, his impulsive decisions cost him his mafia career. How long will Gotti survive in the mafia industry? What were the wrong decisions that he had taken? All the answers to these questions will be answered in this episode!
- 11/14/2023
- by Debjyoti Dey
- Film Fugitives
This article contains spoilers for Get Gotti.
Netflix’s Get Gotti puts the spotlight on a New York gangster icon, whose camera-ready presence signaled his downfall. The prosecutorial team sees John Gotti as an affront to decency. The capos, soldiers, and neighborhood acquaintances see only a larger-than-life street savior, with the balls and brains to make something of the communities he oversees.
The FBI and New York’s Organized Crime Task Force (Octf) couldn’t get their heads around it. Everyone on Carmine Street had no doubt the feds were itching to nail John Gott to a high-voltage crucifix so they could display him like a Christmas tree ornament. But the real sins committed are those against the organization Gotti headed. The Teflon Don broke more mafia edicts than federal crimes. That put him in the spotlight, a place where it’s easy to mistake exposure for protection.
For as thorough as Get Gotti is,...
Netflix’s Get Gotti puts the spotlight on a New York gangster icon, whose camera-ready presence signaled his downfall. The prosecutorial team sees John Gotti as an affront to decency. The capos, soldiers, and neighborhood acquaintances see only a larger-than-life street savior, with the balls and brains to make something of the communities he oversees.
The FBI and New York’s Organized Crime Task Force (Octf) couldn’t get their heads around it. Everyone on Carmine Street had no doubt the feds were itching to nail John Gott to a high-voltage crucifix so they could display him like a Christmas tree ornament. But the real sins committed are those against the organization Gotti headed. The Teflon Don broke more mafia edicts than federal crimes. That put him in the spotlight, a place where it’s easy to mistake exposure for protection.
For as thorough as Get Gotti is,...
- 11/2/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Netflix has brought forth some amazing true crime docu-series like Murdaugh Murders, Making a Murderer, Fear City New York vs. Mafia, and many more with gripping yet true accounts of events and an extremely interesting execution style that completely hooks the audience to the screen. Another organized crime docu-series, Get Gotti, directed by Sebastian Smith, was recently added to the list. Get Gotti is a compelling and intense story revolving around the 1980s Gambino clan boss, John Gotti. This three-part documentary series brought forth an intense anecdote of how John Gotti remained elusive to the FBI until some bugs placed in his headquarters revealed all his criminal deeds. The documentary series did a pretty good job portraying the true accounts of organized crime, the FBI’s constant effort to catch Gotti, and the mafia boss’s eventual downfall.
Get Gotti opened with the dead body of a crime boss, Paul Castellano,...
Get Gotti opened with the dead body of a crime boss, Paul Castellano,...
- 10/24/2023
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
“Get Gotti” is a 3 episode documentary series about the capture of John Gotti.
Paul Castellano was assassinated in 1985 on 46th Street. Paul Castellano was the head of the Gambino family and was considered the number 1 mobster in the Mafia in New York City.
Within hours, everyone knew who had organized the murder: John Gotti, a character in a secret organization who, oddly enough, enjoyed being in the media and magazines.
He loved appearing on television and the public adored him.
A slap in the face to the federal government of the 1980s.
A symbol of the 1980s in the most famous city in the world.
John Gotti was the king of New York in the 1980s.
“Get Gotti” is a Netflix miniseries about that man named John Gotti and how the government managed to put him behind bars.
About the documentary:
If you like Scorsese’s movies, we recommend it: don’t miss it,...
Paul Castellano was assassinated in 1985 on 46th Street. Paul Castellano was the head of the Gambino family and was considered the number 1 mobster in the Mafia in New York City.
Within hours, everyone knew who had organized the murder: John Gotti, a character in a secret organization who, oddly enough, enjoyed being in the media and magazines.
He loved appearing on television and the public adored him.
A slap in the face to the federal government of the 1980s.
A symbol of the 1980s in the most famous city in the world.
John Gotti was the king of New York in the 1980s.
“Get Gotti” is a Netflix miniseries about that man named John Gotti and how the government managed to put him behind bars.
About the documentary:
If you like Scorsese’s movies, we recommend it: don’t miss it,...
- 10/24/2023
- by Martin Cid
- Martin Cid - TV
Everyone likes to tell war stories, including cops and definitely gangsters. Such tales provide the fuel for Get Gotti, Netflix’s new three-part docuseries that tries to breathe fresh life into a story that ended well before there was even such a thing as Netflix. Fast and slick, well-sourced and cogently told, it opens up most when the tea gets spilled by those on both sides of the law.
Loose lips, of course, eventually doomed Gotti, the Eighties New York crime boss who couldn’t stop talking into the bugs...
Loose lips, of course, eventually doomed Gotti, the Eighties New York crime boss who couldn’t stop talking into the bugs...
- 10/23/2023
- by Chris Vognar
- Rollingstone.com
Brought to the big screen by Sony earlier this year, The Pope’s Exorcist was quietly a box office hit back in April, scaring up $76 million worldwide on a production budget of just $18 million. We’ve heard that a sequel is already in early development, and Sony is surely thrilled to hear that the Russell Crowe film is finding even more of an audience over on Netflix.
The Pope’s Exorcist hit Netflix on August 16 and it’s currently the #1 most popular movie on the streaming service, beating out films including brand new Netflix Originals like The Monkey King and Heart of Stone. It didn’t take long for the film to shoot to the top of Netflix’s charts, no doubt aided by its profile being raised by the theatrical release earlier this year.
There’s nothing remarkable about The Pope’s Exorcist, either good or bad, but a fun performance...
The Pope’s Exorcist hit Netflix on August 16 and it’s currently the #1 most popular movie on the streaming service, beating out films including brand new Netflix Originals like The Monkey King and Heart of Stone. It didn’t take long for the film to shoot to the top of Netflix’s charts, no doubt aided by its profile being raised by the theatrical release earlier this year.
There’s nothing remarkable about The Pope’s Exorcist, either good or bad, but a fun performance...
- 8/21/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
"The deaths – are they accidents... or murder?" Screen Media Films has unveiled the official trailer for a thriller titled The Man from Rome, which is the English title given to this Spanish film starring Richard Armitage in Italy. This already opened in Europe last year under the original Spanish name La Piel Del Tambor, though it doesn't seem like it's good enough to get a proper theatrical release in the US. Vatican intelligence operative Father Quart (Richard Armitage) investigates an anonymous message sent to the pope concerning a crumbling Spanish church that "kills to defend itself". Sent to Seville to investigate, a deep conspiracy unfolds that puts Father Quart's loyalty and his faith to the test. Armitage co-stars with Amaia Salamanca, Paul Guilfoyle, Paul Freeman, Rodolfo Sancho, Fionnula Flanagan, Carlos Cuevas, along with Franco Nero as "El Papa", The Pope. This looks so wacky - Vatican hackers, a priest with a gun,...
- 6/21/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Viewers may recognize Ralph Ineson from his on screen roles in such films and TV shows as The Witch, Willow, Chernobyl, and Game of Thrones, among others – and if you’ve seen Ineson in action, you’ve probably also noticed that he has an awesome voice, which is why several credits on his résumé are voiceover roles. So it’s not surprising to hear (from our friends at Bloody Disgusting) that Ineson has been hired to provide the voice of a demon for the supernatural thriller The Pope’s Exorcist, starring Russell Crowe.
A few years ago, The Exorcist director William Friedkin made a documentary about Father Gabriele Amorth (and you can read our review of The Devil and Father Amorth at This Link), a real-life exorcist who passed away in 2016 at the age of 91. Crowe is playing Father Amorth in The Pope’s Exorcist.
Crowe and Ineson are joined in the cast by Laurel Marsden (Ms.
A few years ago, The Exorcist director William Friedkin made a documentary about Father Gabriele Amorth (and you can read our review of The Devil and Father Amorth at This Link), a real-life exorcist who passed away in 2016 at the age of 91. Crowe is playing Father Amorth in The Pope’s Exorcist.
Crowe and Ineson are joined in the cast by Laurel Marsden (Ms.
- 2/1/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Julius Avery, the director of 2018’s Overlord, is heading back into the horror genre with The Pope’s Exorcist, and The Wrap reports this afternoon that Russell Crowe will star. From Sony’s Screen Gems, The Pope’s Exorcist is based on real-life exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, “the legendary Italian priest who performed over 100,000 exorcisms for the […]
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- 6/27/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
In playing online pharmaceutical titan and mob boss Richard Wheatley on NBC’s “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” Dylan McDermott gets to go toe-to-toe with Christopher Meloni’s detective Elliot Stabler, chests puffed and expressions snarled. The show marks a return for Meloni’s beloved “Law & Order” character and a return to the primetime procedural beat for McDermott, who enjoyed a long and Emmy-nominated run as defense attorney Bobby Donnell on ABC’s “The Practice.”
McDermott, who has long had a fascination with organized crime, spoke with Variety ahead of Episode 2, “Not Your Father’s Organized Crime,” about the appeal of playing a kingpin, the unexpected intensity of the “Law & Order” fandom and filming in New York the middle of a pandemic.
Your character Richard Wheatley is, as the title of the second episode suggests, not your father’s organized crime boss. How were you approached about this role,...
McDermott, who has long had a fascination with organized crime, spoke with Variety ahead of Episode 2, “Not Your Father’s Organized Crime,” about the appeal of playing a kingpin, the unexpected intensity of the “Law & Order” fandom and filming in New York the middle of a pandemic.
Your character Richard Wheatley is, as the title of the second episode suggests, not your father’s organized crime boss. How were you approached about this role,...
- 4/9/2021
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
You know the phrase, “Game respects game?” Prepare to see it play out in Thursday’s Law & Order: Organized Crime.
In the series premiere last week, viewers were introduced to Dylan McDermott’s Richard Wheatley, a gangster’s son who is cagey enough to have built an illicit business of his own and cold enough to murder his own father atop a Coney Island ferris wheel. (Read a recap of the premiere.)
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In the series premiere last week, viewers were introduced to Dylan McDermott’s Richard Wheatley, a gangster’s son who is cagey enough to have built an illicit business of his own and cold enough to murder his own father atop a Coney Island ferris wheel. (Read a recap of the premiere.)
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- 4/6/2021
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Director Sam Hobkinson’s Fear City: New York vs The Mafia details the historic investigation and prosecution of New York’s criminal Commission. The resulting convictions of the law enforcement actions marked an end of an era. New York was no longer under the thumb of mob bosses; businesses maintained control of their goods, manufacturing and trafficking; the thin blue line thickened.
As the documentary points out, the Mafia was untouchable when they controlled illegal street trade, but when they made offers which legitimate business couldn’t refuse, law enforcement stepped in and cleaned up. Fear City: New York vs The Mafia depicts this specific period in New York as a war zone. “The Bronx was burning every night,” Guardian Angel founder Curtis Sliwa says in the documentary.
While much of the day-to-day peril of city living has been exaggerated into legend, this is what drew a British...
As the documentary points out, the Mafia was untouchable when they controlled illegal street trade, but when they made offers which legitimate business couldn’t refuse, law enforcement stepped in and cleaned up. Fear City: New York vs The Mafia depicts this specific period in New York as a war zone. “The Bronx was burning every night,” Guardian Angel founder Curtis Sliwa says in the documentary.
While much of the day-to-day peril of city living has been exaggerated into legend, this is what drew a British...
- 7/28/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Netflix‘s limited docu-series Fear City: New York vs The Mafia tells the story of one of law enforcement’s biggest wins. During the 1970s and 1980s, New York City’s construction, cement, hotel, and garment industries, among others, paid an informal tax to a secret Commission. The Five Families of the New York mafia – Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Luccese – diversified their income, which had come from traditional vices like gambling, prostitution, numbers, drugs and loan sharking, and started dipping their beaks in legitimate business.
Directed by Sam Hobkinson, Fear City: New York vs The Mafia details how the feds took apart the upper echelon of organized crime. The takedown was historic in that it prosecuted New York’s top mob bosses. The documentary talks with the investigators, prosecutors, former mob associates, and some of the defense to give the inside story a twist on the usual police procedural.
Directed by Sam Hobkinson, Fear City: New York vs The Mafia details how the feds took apart the upper echelon of organized crime. The takedown was historic in that it prosecuted New York’s top mob bosses. The documentary talks with the investigators, prosecutors, former mob associates, and some of the defense to give the inside story a twist on the usual police procedural.
- 7/22/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
When alleged Gambino family boss Francesco “Frank” Cali was gunned down in front of his car outside his Staten Island home earlier this month, many people were stunned. The murder was the first killing of a New York area mob boss in more than 30 years, since Gambino family boss Paul Castellano was fatally shot in front of Sparks steakhouse in Manhattan, and many began speculating whether Cali’s death signified the resurgence of the mob or a new internal power struggle within the Gambino family.
These concerns were dismissed almost immediately,...
These concerns were dismissed almost immediately,...
- 3/26/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
A 24-year-old Staten Island man was arrested Saturday in the shooting death of a reputed Gambino crime family boss, and investigators reportedly believe the murder of Francesco Cali outside his home was a domestic incident and not a mob slaying.
Anthony Comello was apprehended in New Jersey Saturday on charges that he shot Cali 10 times outside the alleged mobster’s Staten Island home.
“The investigation is far from over. We do not believe this is a random act,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said Saturday. “We are well aware of Mr.
Anthony Comello was apprehended in New Jersey Saturday on charges that he shot Cali 10 times outside the alleged mobster’s Staten Island home.
“The investigation is far from over. We do not believe this is a random act,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said Saturday. “We are well aware of Mr.
- 3/17/2019
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Gianni Russo wasn't just in "The Godfather," he claims to have deep mob ties -- and tells TMZ there's No Way the hit on Gambino crime boss Frank Cali was carried out by the Italian mafia. And why? Because Russo says the killer broke a Sacred mafia rule that no Italian mobster would dare to violate. "I don't think it was an Italian hit or a Family hit because they shot [Cali] in front of his family's house.
- 3/15/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Francesco “Frank” Cali, the alleged crime boss of the notorious Gambino family, was shot and killed in front of his Staten Island mansion on Wednesday night, the NYPD reports.
According to police, Cali, 53, was standing outside his white SUV in the upscale Todt Hill neighborhood of Staten Island when a man in a blue pickup truck drove by, shooting him six times in the torso. The pickup truck reportedly ran him over after he was killed, according to local news station Wpix.
Officers responded to a 911 call, where he was found with multiple gunshot wounds.
According to police, Cali, 53, was standing outside his white SUV in the upscale Todt Hill neighborhood of Staten Island when a man in a blue pickup truck drove by, shooting him six times in the torso. The pickup truck reportedly ran him over after he was killed, according to local news station Wpix.
Officers responded to a 911 call, where he was found with multiple gunshot wounds.
- 3/14/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Frank Cali -- the boss of the legendary Gambino crime family -- was murdered in front of his Staten Island home Wednesday night, officials confirm. It's the first time a high-profile mafia boss has been shot and killed in public since Paul Castellano was whacked in front of the famous Sparks Steak House in Manhattan in 1985. Officials say Cali was in front of his home when someone rolled up and opened fire, striking 53-year-old Cali in the torso multiple times.
- 3/14/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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We recently reported on the trials and tribulations everyone associated with “Gotti” experienced over the seven years expended in attempting to bring the biopic to the big screen (the film has more producers credited than the entire population of Lichtenstein.) . When the film did open, it earned the rare distinction of being unanimously panned by the critics surveyed on Rotten Tomatoes. So, I guess I’m out there on my own when I say I found the film to be quite satisfying on any number of levels. Mind you, I’m also a defender of Michael Cimino’s “Heaven’s Gate”, so you should take that into consideration. To read the reviews of this troubled production, one would think it was genuinely awful. It isn’t. In fact, there is much to recommend here, not the least of which is...
By Lee Pfeiffer
We recently reported on the trials and tribulations everyone associated with “Gotti” experienced over the seven years expended in attempting to bring the biopic to the big screen (the film has more producers credited than the entire population of Lichtenstein.) . When the film did open, it earned the rare distinction of being unanimously panned by the critics surveyed on Rotten Tomatoes. So, I guess I’m out there on my own when I say I found the film to be quite satisfying on any number of levels. Mind you, I’m also a defender of Michael Cimino’s “Heaven’s Gate”, so you should take that into consideration. To read the reviews of this troubled production, one would think it was genuinely awful. It isn’t. In fact, there is much to recommend here, not the least of which is...
- 6/25/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Shame on Cannes. In what appears to be a deal with the devil, or one made with a gun to the back of his head, Cannes director Thierry Frémaux inexplicably agreed to give “Gotti” — the myth-building, record-cleansing inside story of notorious Gotham mob boss John Gotti, as seen by his oldest son — a spot at the prestigious film festival … if you can call a single screening in the festival’s smallest official venue, the Salle Buñuel, which seats fewer than 300, a proper world premiere.
It’s certainly a far cry from the treatment John Travolta received 24 years earlier, when “Pulp Fiction” bowed in competition in the massive Lumière theater downstairs, but no doubt the price of convincing the actor to participate in the following day’s events, which included a master class and beachside screening of “Grease.” Though it was projected without the festival’s red-carpet trailer beforehand, Frémaux introduced the film personally,...
It’s certainly a far cry from the treatment John Travolta received 24 years earlier, when “Pulp Fiction” bowed in competition in the massive Lumière theater downstairs, but no doubt the price of convincing the actor to participate in the following day’s events, which included a master class and beachside screening of “Grease.” Though it was projected without the festival’s red-carpet trailer beforehand, Frémaux introduced the film personally,...
- 5/21/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
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