My 'Guilty Pleasure' Film of the Week: Blood and Wine (1996)

A few days ago, one of our fellow contributors posted a question about our likeness for a 'guilty pleasure' movie and favorite selections. I didn't comment on that thread but mine would have been most probably 'Harry Potter films'. But then, we have all got our list of favorite actors, actresses and their combinations. I have a favorite pair of my own and that's Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine, two of the most decorated Academy Actors of last five decades. I just love seeing Jack in action and as far as Sir Caine's abilities are concerned, I haven't watched a lot of his films but whatever I have seen of him, it has endeared him to me. So when I came across a film where this dream pair was cast and then too in an A-List capacity, I jumped onto it. Film's name was 'Blood and Wine' and it also starred a young Jennifer Lopez and Steven Dorff. My dream pair cooks up a great conspiracy and since it was a bad plan with bad payoffs, it inevitably fails and both Jack and Caine succumb to it. They are lethal in it but also product of their own circumstance. Jack was true Jack and since I don't know the true Sir Caine, I cannot comment on his performance. Great plot, great music score and it goes back and forth like a true gangster flick but only, it isn't one. It served my purpose perfectly well. Try it if you haven't and I bet you would also call it a great 'guilty pleasure' film!!!!

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