Day: March 17, 2006

Tsotsi

A man is stabbed on a train and robbed. Behind the young gangbangers is one of many AIDS awareness posters you’ll find in South Africa, as a constant reminder of the advice going unheeded by many of Africa’s (and the world’s) youth—ever oblivious to dangers that aren’t immediately…

Find Me Guilty

The opening titles inform us that the court dialogues in “Find Me Guilty” are from actual testimony in the racketeering trial of twenty associates and members of the Lucchesi crime syndicate, led by Nick Calabrese (Alex Rocco). Giacomo “Fat Jack” DiNorscio (Vin Diesel) is, by relative standards, a pawn in the equation. After his cousin, Tony Compagna (Raúl Esparza), attempts to kill him in his…