5 h. ago Robert De Niro’s underwhelming double performance sinks The Alto Knights

The actor plays duelling real-life gangsters who weren’t twins nor even related, leaving this a bit of stunt casting that Barry Levinson’s long-in-the-works thriller struggles to justify

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5 h. ago The Alto Knights review – double De Niro makes for a laborious true

The actor plays Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, two warring mob bosses in 1950s New York, in a caper that lacks the richness of its writer’s earlier Goodfellas‘They’re the same – he’s marrying himself!” The speaker is an aghast Bobbie Costello, played by Debra Messing, addressing her shruggingly detached mob boss husband, Frank Costello, played by Robert De Niro. They are guests at the wedding of mercurial club owner Anna (Kathrine Narducci) to Frank’s hot-tempered mafia associate Vito Genovese. And Vito is played by Robert De Niro.This film is a laborious true-crime account of Frank and Vito’s homicidal falling out in 1950s New York, directed by Barry Levinson and written by Nicholas Pileggi, though with little of the perspective, light and shade and narrative richness of Pileggi’s earlier scripts. As Vito, De Niro is gloweringly resentful, taciturn, bad-tempered and wears glasses and a hat. As Frank, De Niro is gloweringly resentful, taciturn, slightly less bad-tempered and does...

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32 h. ago Ballet Black: Shadows at Hackney Empire review: this double billing resists a neat conclusion

The performances are dynamic, even if the vigorous choreography sometimes feels like a decorative add-on

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5 d. ago Debra Messing cuts a glamorous figure in a black ballgown as she joins Robert De Niro at The Alto Knights glit

Debra Messing cuts a glamorous figure in a black ballgown as she joins Robert De Niro at The Alto Knights glit  Daily Mail

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5 d. ago Robert De Niro on the challenges of playing two roles in The Alto Knights

The star appears as two rival mob bosses in the new movie which opens this month.

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9 d. ago Twins! Rivals! Clones! Hollywood is doubling down on dual roles

Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Michael B Jordan are all pulling double duty in their new films and that’s just the startFor years, dual roles have been played largely for laughs. Think of Adam Sandler’s Razzie-sweeping twin turn in Jack and Jill, or Lisa Kudrow as both Phoebe and Ursula Buffay on Friends. Eddie Murphy was always particularly prolific, his most multiplicitous performance as a clutch of Klumps for Nutty Professor II.There are exceptions, of course. But for every Legend or The Prestige there are ten Austin Powers, Bowfingers and – shudder – Norbits. This year, however, is giving us a more dramatic breed of duplicate. Robert De Niro will pull double Don duty in The Alto Knights, Michael B Jordan will play twin leads in the supernatural Sinners and a pair of Robert Pattinson clones is currently headlining Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago I tried KFC’s new Zinger Double Down and it is my new favourite

Fans of spice will love this 🍔

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