MovieJuice: Public Enemies

MovieJuice looks at Public Enemies

"Ah, the crime of a simpler time.

When the prisons were filled with hardened criminals with fresh haircuts in striped pajamas. Men who actually used the word "see" at the end of every sentence as in "stick 'em up, see?" Men who didn't need to break out of prison because it was so easy to serpentine your way out. Men who referred to their dames as "sister" despite being unrelated. Men with tough yet laughable names like Melvyn and Homer. Men with Chipmunk names like Alvin, Simon, and Theodore.

Ah, those were the days, when folks robbed banks instead of the other way around.

Christian Bale returns to the big screen after a long absence of two weeks as Purvis, doing his best Matthew McConaughey accent. 'I'm imitating McConaughey because I want to prove to Hollywood that I, too, can be cast in romantic comedies opposite Kate Hudson,' said Bale. 'Assuming there's a sequence where I beat the living Hell out of her.'"