What is a Cover Movie?
Somewhere in that cabinet where you keep all of your movies, there are several reliable cover movies. They’re called cover movies, well, because you need to be wrapped up and curled fetal position into a thousand or so covers and pillows. Some may refer to these as ‘blanket movies,’ but that’s simply incorrect.
Public Embarrassment
What is it with the bad-guy biopics? And why do audiences keep eating them up? Michael Mann’s Public Enemies is a clear-cut example of the direction Hollywood has been going for the last couple decades in terms of framing traditional antagonists as protagonists.