john dillinger

With its soaring glass skyscrapers, spectacular views across Lake Michigan and its cultural scene, Chicago symbolises all that's great about the USA. It's a city that melds the cosmopolitan chic of New York with the Mid-West's legendary friendliness. While world-class shopping, thousands of restaurants and spectacular modern architecture make it a city of the 21st century, there's plenty about Chicago's shady past to attract the more adventurous tourist...  

The Fox Winter Film series recycles several popular films from the past year, including some fairly recent releases, such as The Informant and Fame, which hit theaters in September. But it also dusts off a few gems from earlier years, such as Earth, said to be a stunning theatrical version of the BBC series Planet Earth, released in 2007, and The Boy in Striped Pajamas, a Holocaust drama that opened in 2008. A large part of the lineup goes to drama.  

Though she has played British and American roles of late, the thesp is Australian. Will put the serious act on hold in next pic when she jumps into the action genre in Zack Snyder's "Sucker Punch." Won lead actress Oscar for "La Vie en rose."  

Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp has been voted the 'Sexiest Man Alive' by People magazine, it has been announced. The 46-year-old, last seen as iconic gangster John Dillinger in Public Enemies, joins Brad Pitt and George Clooney as the only men to receive the magazine's annual honour twice. "From a sexy swashbuckler in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise to quirkier roles like Edward Scissorhands, the 46-year-old star has had women swooning since his days as a teen detective on 21 Jump St  

It's a Michael Mann film, so of course the period detail is immaculate and the set-pieces are pulled off with aplomb, but Public Enemies is a strangely unmoving experience.  

ROADS along Murray Trace, San Francique, are filled with potholes.  

Come on an interactive historical adventure illustrating the life and times of John Dillinger and other gangsters during the 1930's depression era and see advancements made in crime fighting technology during the first 30 years of the 20th century.  

Sometimes you find the funniest things on YouTube.  

Public Enemies premiered on big screens in mid-summer, just when cinemagoers were close to drowning in a gungy pool of blockbuster dross.