Shaft. Directed by John Singleton. Screenplay by Richard Price, from the novel by Ernest Tidyman. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa L. Williams, Christian Bale, and Jeffrey Wright. (R)
This weekend the highly anticipated film Public Enemies opens. It's the story of outlaw John Dillinger and stars Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, so you know it'll probably
make a shit-ton of cash. Plus, it was directed by Michael Mann, and that guy knows his way around cops and robbers and bullets (ahem, Heat, everyone?).But without Kansas City, there'd be no badass shootouts to film.
I don't think it's a spoiler to tell you that John Dillinger was shot to death by federal a
