It’s not our worst title, but it does get to the point.
Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro appeared in four films together. And that’s if you count The Godfather Part II, in which they shared zero screen time because they appeared in separate timelines. So that really makes three, including a 2008 movie called Righteous Kill, which was bad enough that even Robert DeNiro regretted making it. And he was in What Just Happened the same year, so.Â
Maybe 2008 just wasn’t Robert DeNiro’s Year of Quality Films.
At any rate, in this episode we check out 1995’s Heat, starring a couple of guys of whom you may have heard, directed by Michael Mann, and Martin Scorsese’s 2019 film The Irishman, which was made for Netflix but also spent about six hours in theaters so it would qualify for Academy Awards contention. We have two very different films here which still manage to have a lot in common other than the stars. But, of course, that’s the point of this podcast, isn’t it.
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In Reel 32, the good guys and the bad guys team up, coincidentally in Hong Kong both times. First on the projector is 1989’s The Killer, and from there we move to So Close, from 2002. The Killer is a tough one to find, but fortunately we found it on YouTube for you. Just go to this link and turn on the English captions.