Word: underworld
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...steal and a ticket to ride… I am going to tell you everything.” At the beginning of James Ellroy’s latest novel, “Blood’s a Rover,” the third installment of his “Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy,” one of the book’s three narrators proposes to retell the history of America between June 14, 1968 and May 11, 1972, and unsurprisingly, the novel’s perspective on that history is one of general brutality, filled with accounts of racism...
...pimps, drug dealers, in short, anyone who offends their sense of right. “All Saints Day” sees the brothers lured back to Boston from their Irish refuge by killings copycatting their coins-in-the-eyes trademark. Once again they find themselves embroiled in the Boston underworld, with no choice but to gleefully resume (stylishly) shooting up the city...
...Saints Day,” allowing them to pick off their targets with unusual ease. As a result, the plot manages to coast along with nary a conflict. En route to the states, they encounter Romeo (Clifton Collins, Jr.), a raucous co-worker with loose ties to the underworld, who risks life and limb to join the Saints crew, perhaps intuiting the sidekick position left vacant by Rocco’s death in the first film. Stateside, the Saints’ fame precedes them, and they are immediately offered a secret hideout and new weapons for free...
...Dafoe’s investigative astral projection scenes from the first “Boondock Saints.” Benz—notable for her role in the 2008 remake of another cult classic, “Rambo”—gracefully mimes the seedy ballet of underworld gun fights, ducking imaginary bullets while cooing hypotheses to her flabbergasted colleagues...
...glass-walled lobby, one story below ground, made of stark concrete and gray metal, where light swords hang like stalactites from the ceiling. From the time of Orpheus and before, a subterranean journey has had psychological reverberations. This one bears just a hint of a descent into a stony underworld, a primordial cavern that could be the ancient womb of theater - even if you're there just to see Mamma...