One Good Cop (MOVIE REVIEW)

Official poster of One Good Cop, with Michael Keaton and directed by Heywood Gould.
(photo - Buena Vista Pictures)

Directed by: Heywood Gould.

Produced by: Laurence Mark.

Written by: Heywood Gould (who also directed this movie).

Main Cast:

Michael Keaton ----- Artie Lewis

Rene Russo ----- Rita Lewis

Anthony LaPaglia ---- Steve Diroma

Benjamin Bratt --- Felix

Kevin Conway ---- Lt. Danny Quinn

Rachel Ticotin --- Grace

Charlayane Woodard --- Cheryl Clark

Kevin Corrigan ---- Clifford

Vondie Curtis- Hall ---- Father Willis

Rene Russo is Rita Lewis, a seamstress, a devoted mother and wife.
(photo - Buena Vista Pictures)

Release Date: May 3, 1991 (worldwide)

Running Time: 114 min. 

Budget/Box Office: US$4 million / US$11,3 million (box office success).

Plot Summary:  Artie Lewis (Michael Keaton, from Batman, The Paper and many other movie billboard hits) is a NYPD cop who has a happy life: he believes in his work, loves his wife Rita (Rene Russo) and is close to Steve Diroma (Anthony LaPaglia, from The Salton Sea and the series Without a Trace), his partner for 8 years.  

Steve is a single man with three daughters and at a certain moment, he is killed on duty, and these girls are left nowhere to go. 
Artie and Rita want to adopt Stevie's girls, but Child Welfare Services decides that their apartment is too small for three children. Artie needs to buy a house, which would require a $25,000 down payment that he doesn't have. Desperate, Artie grabs his gun and robs Beniamino (Tony Plana), a particularly scummy drug dealer who was peripherally involved in Stevie's death.

Rene Russo and Michael Keaton: elegance and chemistry.

(photo - Buena Vista Pictures)

Artie uses most of the take to buy the house, and he gives the rest to Father Wills (Vondie Curtis-Hall), who runs a local orphanage. However, what Artie doesn't know is that Beniamino's girlfriend Grace (Rachel Ticotin) is actually an undercover cop who won't stand by as Artie plays Robin Hood.

Rene Russo, Michael Keaton and their three adopted children.
(photo - Buena Vista Pictures)

Fun Facts about the movie:

• The movie is set mainly in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York. 
• In this movie, Rene Russo trained her mother abilities, way before she became a real and devoted mother and became mother of model Rose Gilroy.
• Original title of this movie was "We're Alive".
• First work of Anthony LaPaglia as a police officer. He'd do a police officer/investigator on the TV series "Without A Trace", aired from 2002 to 2009, on CBS.
• Despite the mixed reviews from critics, it was a box office hit. 

Critical Reception:

• IMDB : 5,8/10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 15% (mixed to negative; 13 critics)

Hope u like it. 

Loveuguys.

xoxox

ME

Rene Russo, the makeup lover !

Rene Russo and current make-up artist Kéla Wong, in 2017.
(photo - Archive)

Many celebrities stay great only with makeup on, but ugly without makeup, and Rene Russo is NOT one of these celebrities. Ms. Russo doesn't need lots of makeup everyday, because her natural beauty is inside and outside of her. 

For everyone's curiosity, this wonderful ex-model now actress has worked with many makeup artists, from whom Rene's sympathy is praised by them: Sandy Linter (in her modeling days), Shane Paish (in the Thomas Crown era), Hiromi Ando and nowadays, Kéla Wong. All great profissionals and nice people.   

Rene Russo: her natural beauty is also inside and outside.
(photo - Yu Tsai)

Her secrets of beauty include no drinking and no smoking and a few laser treatments, because she doesn't want to mess herself too much (few celebrities, such as Meg Ryan and Donatella Versace, have lots of plastic surgeries, specially on the face). And also she loves a good spa and doing exercise 5 times per day, one part of the body.

Rene Russo's makeup is perfect for any clothing she wears or any hair style she has.
(photo - Mark Lidell/makeup - Shane Paish/hair- Enzo Angileri)

In photoshoots and even in movies, Rene Russo's makeup is perfect for any clothes she wears or any hairstyle she has, because of one key word: natural beauty. In any movie she appears, Rene Russo is always praised for her acting, even with or without makeup. 

Makeup artist Shane Paish, known for making up celebrities such as Charlize Theron, was very graceful for making up Rene Russo for the movie The Thomas Crown Affair, in 1999: "That's such a great memory for me". 

Rene Russo and Shane Paish in the premiere of Thomas Crown Affair in London, 1999.
According to Paish, "That's such a great memory for me".
(photo - Instagram Archives/@shanepaish)

Hope u like it. 

loveuguys.

xoxoxo

ME

My Impressions about Velvet Buzzsaw: the Relationship between Art World and Supernatural

Rene Russo, Jake Gyllenhaal and Zawe Ashton: the main characters of Velvet Buzzsaw.
(photo - Archive)

After a great debut in Nightcrawler, in 2014, Dan Gilroy did a similar version of that movie, now retitled as Velvet Buzzsaw. If Nightcrawler retreated the television world, Velvet Buzzsaw retreats the art world. The movie was great in special effects, screams and obviously, the main cast. 

Rene Russo and Jake Gyllenhaal. (photo - Netflix)

Rene Russo's Rhodora Haze is a mix of two characters made by her: Nina Romina, of Nightcrawler, and Catherine Banning, of Thomas Crown Affair. Rhodora is ambitious, smart, sexy and elegant. Ex-punk rocker, now a gallery owner, along with Josephina (Zawe Ashton), an ambitious gallery worker, Morf (Jake Gyllenhaal), an art critic, and Gretchen (Toni Collette), a consultant, are involved into a painter called Vetril Dease. 

In my opinion, the supernatural part of the movie was inspired on the music video Somewhere I Belong, by California band Linkin Park, in 2003.

Billy Magnussen (Bryson) and Daveed Diggs (Damrish), who were revealed on Law and Order franchise, along with Natalia Dyer (Coco), revealed on the Netflix series Stranger Things, Tom Sturridge (Jon Dondon) and John Malkovich (Piers) are also great, even on small roles. 

Rene Russo in Velvet Buzzsaw: extremely elegant as always.
(photo - Netflix)

Dan Gilroy is an L.A. version of also director Martin Scorsese, because he shows a darker version of Los Angeles, and Martin Scorsese shows a darker version of New York City (as shown in Taxi Driver, with Robert De Niro). The only thing missing in Gilroy's movies is a director cameo (like Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, from Pulp Fiction). 

I hope the next Dan Gilroy movie will be about the fashion world, inspired in the music video Beautiful Girl, by INXS, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo and one of the past romantic pairs of Rene Russo (more likely Robert De Niro or Pierce Brosnan).

Hope u like it.

loveuguys.

xoxoxo
ME