Michael Mann is giving us a 'Heat' prequel and sequel! Here's the details

This is not a drill... if you can spot the heat around the corner.

A movie lover’s top ten list is rarely a finite gathering, except for #1. While the rest of the titles are interchangeable, the top slot is reserved for the one movie you could put on at any time in my life and it would be fine: Michael Mann’s Heat.

Easily one of the most striking memories as a young movie fanatic was watching the 1995 crime classic at Esquire 8 on Clayton Road. They wrongly kept it out of the main auditorium, most likely out of fear that other moviegoers would think a real bank robbery shootout was taking place next door.

This was one of the first movies that made me sink my teeth, legs, and bones into the world of cinema. Most film fans love a good hard boiled cops and robbers tale, but Mann took it to an elite level.

He shot all of it on film, casting Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as opposing forces gravitating towards each other’s worlds; a seasoned detective and thief matching wits and abilities in the city of angels. Aggressively old school, Mann turned a crime opera into a cinematic opus, one that includes many treasures outside of the Hall of Fame bank heist.