DIRECTOR: Michael Mann

ACTORS: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff, Jason Clarke, and Stephen Lang

SYNOPSIS: During the Great Depression, America’s most wanted—and celebrated—criminal, John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), pulls off bank robberies and prison breaks while being hunted by FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup) and agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale).

WOMEN: Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard plays Billie Frechette, a hatcheck lady who falls for the mysterious and exciting bad boy. She gets busy by 1930s standards, which means she wears a slip during and after sex (Ayo! calls that a flaccid flashback). In one frustrating scene, Frechette lays naked in a tub and beckons to Dillinger, but nothing much is visible, and the fun is soon interrupted before she has a chance to get all French on us and give up the full frontal.

ACTION: It’s a Michael Mann flick, so you know the shootouts are gonna skull-fuck you with a machine gun until you’re concussed. Whether the outlaws are shooting their way out of prison, bucking their way out of a bank, or blasting their way out of a woodland ambush, their exchanges with lawmen are intense and unrelenting. Unlike women back in the day, antique cars, guns, and clothes are perfect for getting it popping.

AYO!’s LAST WORDS: It’s great to see Depp without the white boy dreads for a change, killing it in Public Enemies. Besides being awesomely entertaining, the action-filled period piece reminds us that there are alternative methods to get rich in a recession. Pass that Tommy gun and let the feds economically stimulate deeeeeeeez!

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HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
Finally, Hermione takes an interest in dudes. We’re still dying to see her master the magic stick, but it’s a start.

THUNDERBALL
Is it really possible to grow tired of James Bond saving the world with neat gadgets like that special “spy cam” he’s always using to gather intel on hot chicks’ cervixes?

ROCKY IV
Decades of animosity between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. and all it takes to end the Cold War is Rocky Balboa enduring a beatdown and knocking out the original poster boy for steroids, Ivan Drago (who we hear got his juice from Sylvester Stallone).

ALIEN: RESURRECTION
An alien/human hybrid clone of Ellen Ripley fights aliens. We feel slightly cheated that we didn’t get to see some cross-species coitus, but at least we got to see what their love child would look like.

LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD
John McClane fights cyber-terrorists, preventing the full-scale anarchy that would ensue from streaming porn coming to a screeching halt.

Since the opening of Endovanera’s Los Angeles flagship store, the dismal mood of the brand’s signature dark designs is brighter than usual. The new retail space, which opened it’s doors this month on Front St., shows the genesis of its tailored slim-cuts with vintage sewing machines and a few tools (on display) used in founders David Michael Hershberger and Mitch Moseley’s refined looks. After launching Endvanera in 2005, their style has remained as moody as the emo-hipsters that wear them, but with their store in full-effect, they have more of a reason to crack a smile. See a gallery of their latest collection after the jump.